Ride ´em, cowboy!

Next stop after Cafayete was Los Potreros Estancia. Gav hadn´t enjoyed the trek on the mules up to the cloud forest nor the ride on the bedraggled horses around the Inca ruins close to Cusco but I assured him it would all be different on the thoroughbreds of Argentina.

On the first morning Nicky our gaucho instructor gave us a demonstration of how to control the horses and show how obedient they were. They were amazing they responded to the lightest touch. We spent the whole day in the saddle and rode down to a waterfall for a picnic, then back through the meadows with the cows grazing (beautiful Aberdean Angus cattle) to the Estancia. Gav got a bit saddle sore (and bored) so he opted out of the second day, but that was brilliant too, we went up to the top of a hill where you could see for miles around, then it was back home for an authentic Gaucho BBQ with unlimited free wine!

The week after we left, the BBC were going there to shoot a travel programme, so we´re hoping to catch that when we get home.