Well it is time to show you all the photos from the trip we took as a group to San Juan.
The bus ride was long, five or six hours. Than we went strait to Valle de la Luna.
This is what almost all the rocks around there look like.
Yes it is a desert.
There were lots of little foxes
We took a guided tour to the five main rock formations.
The view, Cerro Morado (purple maintain).
Our guide
The first stop on our tour, EL GUSANO (the worm):
More cactus.
If you look closely you can see the print of a furn for thousands of years ago.
The next stop was, Valle Pintado (Painted Valley)
I really did look as if it could be land on the moon.
The third stop was, Cancha de Bochas (Bowling balls, it think).
At that stop we also saw this cool formation.
The nest stop was the , Submarino (Submarine)
The view behind the formation.
The last formations was the, Hongo (mushroom)
Some more cool pictures of the land.
This bush does not need leaves. I uses its stems for photosynthesis.
Yeah that is a llama like animal
That night we stayed in Valle Fértil at this hotel that was high above the town by a lake.
The boys jumped into the lake
Dancing.
The next morning,
Early morning fishing
The second day we went to Talampaya. We took a hike though the red desert.
This was a lot bigger than it looks
The indigenous people used to grind up food on this rock
The birds
The rabbit/pig animal. It looks like a rabbit but it does not hop.
The emu like birds
A really cool plant.
We stopped at a cool little museum that had this cool stone work outside.
These are stirrups for horse saddles that are made out of carved wood.
On the way back to Mendoza on the last day we stop at two religious places.
People pay tribute to this folk saint Defuna Correa for their houses, cars and many other things.
The saint died from dehydration in the desert so people leave water bottles at her shrines. This was a place to give a offering of water. It is only of my favorite pictures of the weekend.
