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Cafayate is a really small town 4 hours by bus from Salta full of bodegas (where wine is made) and surrounded by vineyards. Tourists come here to hire bikes or walk around the town going from bodgea to bodgea tasting wine. Most of the tastings are free, some charge you $2 - but if they charge you then you usually get a tour of the factory as well.
When we arrived we couldn't get our own room at the hostel, so had to slum it for a night in a dorm room, it wasn't too bad. But the next morning after our night acting like real back packers we decided to book our hotel at the next destination (Cordoba) and we splurged on a fancy hotel with a lovely pool.
After 5 minutes walking around town we ran into our friends from the car road trip Solynka and Julius, they were in this town too! So we made plans to meet up at the museum that night as the town had their annual wine festival on. This was a lot of fun, there were speeches from the mayor, every Bodega had stalls with tastings, there was live bands and it seemed the whole town was there.
The next day we walked around all the Bodega's doing wine tastings and getting tours of the facilities (sometimes in Spanish which we didn't understand a word of) and a lovely lunch at Nanni bodega (again not very backpacker-ish). That night it was more wine tasting (there's a theme forming) at the local wine bar and empanadas for dinner. Empanadas are kind of like the Argentine version of pies / Cornish pasties with a variety of fillings and are baked.
On our last day we made ourselves a lovely lunch to eat in the hostel garden with local cheese, wine and salami from a market stall.
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