Simultaneous update

Hola!

We are in a super-crappy internet place sheltering from the rain. We were going to go see some lagoons or something today but it was too hot and then we couldn't find the bus stop and then it was raining... so we just were hanging around here, and boom, rain.

Ah well.

John wrote a little bit about the Quebrado de Humahuaca yesterday, but I thought I'd weigh in too. The colours, as he noted, were amazing. The hills were very young mountains, full of silt and minerals. They had great forms in them from erosion, all sorts of folds and hoodoos and the like.

The towns along the way were all tiny and whitewashed and adobe, with people who looked like storybook pictures of Bolivians, including ladies walking around with their children strapped to their backs. It was pretty cool, and we probably would have bought more in the markets if it wasn't for teh fact it was all stuff we associate more with Bolivia. We have a sort of informal rule not to buy any alpaca until we've seen a few that aren't in pens.

It was also neat to see a little variety on the menus. Up here you can get tamales and humitas, whih are like tamales with fresh corn, and also lots of mutton and goat, plus suckling pig and llama meat. We're being medium adventurous with it all.

We had a goat stew up in Humahuaca, at about 3000m of altitude. I guess we'll start chewing coca leaves soon... it's a kind of simultaneously cool and disgusting idea.

I'm trying to upload some photos from the Iguazu waterfalls, but it's slow going.

I{m also putting a video of something into youtube, but ditto.