Sunday, March 1, 2009

Driving the Andes (not) take 2

Today we went driving through the Andes. The mountains looked big, red, blue, and some other colours too. It took a long time, 9 hours and we took the road towards Chile even though we did not go there. We stopped at a Puenta del Inca ruins. There was a natural bridge made of minerals that was very interesting. The Incas used to bathe in the spring waters when they got ill. You used to be able to go across the bridge, but since 2005 you can’t because landslides are dangerous and you might cause one. I bought a white onyx egg for 35 pesos. Use the Internet to search Puenta del Inca and read more about it. There was ski hills there because there were ski lifts.

On the way back my dad got a ticket for not having his front lights on (daytime). The officer did not speak English so they brought out another guy who did. It would have cost 750 pesos and they wanted to keep the registration to the car and my dad driving license until he paid it. Instead my day paid him 500 pesos for a bribe.

Avoir.

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Andes Trip mendosa

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