mollares had a certain amount of menhires, huge blocks of stone from ancient indian times with impressive symbols and reliefs craved in - and that right next to a river, before entering a village. but as humanity always got a sense of destroying itself and all that has been there before, a lot of the beautiful menhires have been destroyed by vandalists. so the town decided to move the stones from their initial place to a kind of garden in towncenter, now with nice descriptions placed next to them.
but still.. the natural magic of the stones is missing, as you just walk a circle taking a look at them and leave the garden again. pity.
right after that we went on to tafi del valle, capital of this municipality. tafi is the perfect spot to start excursions to all the beautiful sites in the valley, but actually doesnt have much to see when in town. besides the artesanias market.
all the way up to mollares and tafi is green and greener, jungle so to say. but leaving tafi and going up a little bit more the mountains the climate changes surprisingly fast. the green grass disappears, the trees change their faces, are shorter and broader, get less and less and when you start getting bored by seeing dry grass you finally make out a cactus.
CACTUS. i mean what i say. this plant was gonna follow me for two weeks from there.. and i still remember that sensation when seeing the first giant cactus in the landscape, looking like a mutated version of ikeas house plants. like maybe 2-5m high and thick as a tree, there are millions of them out in the sierra of argentina. and aparently they are as durable as trees aswell, in the area we crossed it seemed kinda common to use cactus as wood for furniture. pictures follow.
next destination: amaicha
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