White waters abound...

Today was a fabulous day. We decided to go white water rafting for the day. Great fun (although not huge rapids). We got picked up early, and then drove for about 2.5 hours out of Salta to a huge lake (no idea of the name sorry - my spanish is still not that good). We stopped at a camp ground, where we joined a whole bunch of other travellers who were to do the same as us, and then got taken to the start of the rapids.

Interestingly enough, the rapids are controlled by a dam above the site. When they want to send people down, they open up the dam slightly, and allow an amount of water (judging how fast and cool they want to make the rapids) down, which you then get on an go for it. Craig and I had to have a crash course in rapids in espanol, so that we knew what to do when our guide yelled out to everyone in the boat.

The group on our boat were loads of fun. A guy and his son (he kept saying that his son wanted his inheritance early, which was why he was taking him white water rafting), two young argentinian couples (one was so funny and we had fun talking to them in the truck on the way back to Salta), and another couple (weird, although speaking spanish, never quite got the gist of the directions from our guide).

We went down about 10 rapids in total, which were fun, although not nearly as extreme as they could (Craig thinks ´should´) have been. We survived, although now have lovely sunburn marks (mine were the least - very proud of my slip/slop/slap efforts). The others will hurt tomorrow for sure.

Our reward for such a thrilling day was to have a late lunch, salad, bread and then loads and loads and loads of meat - these people take their BBQ seriously.

Ahhhh....Argentina Rocks!!!!