We had a really cool drive down to Samaipata, the scenery was awesome! We finally arrived later in the evening and spent sometime looking for a hostel but we eventually came across one so we dumped our kit of and went out for dinner. The town is pretty small so it didn't take long to walk around, we came across a small bistro that served pretty good food.

The next morning we got up and had a walk around the town we met an American guy who gave us a tour around the place in his gas guzzler. He took us a hill where his friend had bought the land and was building a hotel complex in the form of a small town (see pictures). We spent the rest of the day chilling.

The next day we decided to take a tour to where Che Guevara was buried. The journey took around 3 hours. The museum was basic,but explained with photos and written documentation the exploits of Che. We then visited the site where he and his compatriots where buried (for a period anyway),his body has since been moved to Cuba but the head stones of the freedom fighters are still there.

We also visited the hospital where his body was taken to be cleaned after he was shot by the police.
We arrived back later that day. The tour was quite interesting, I look forward to reading up to find out more about this brilliant youngman.

We booked a horse trek for the next day to gallop up to El Fuerte De Samaipata (some more Inca Ruins). Graham turns out to be quite the cowboy, whilst mine was intermitten, Pauls hag was a lazy s***! I whipped him and the b***** kicked me..lol that´ll teach me...!
It pissed down the whole day...lovely!
We chilled out that evening.

We dismounted and paid the entrance fee and of we walked to view the Inca ruins. El Fuerte as its known is archaeological site is situated on a mountain top at 8 kilometres from the center of Samaipata and provides a spectacular view of distant mountain ranges. "El Fuerte", meaning "The Fortress", was first settled by tribes from the Amazon and Gran Chaco lowlands and later by the Incas. It was probably a religious ceremonial center. Its predominant feature is the world´s largest carved stone, forming a platform of 300x40 metres. A few years ago UNESCO declared "El Fuerte" World Cultural Heritage site. Some visitors sense a special energy emanating from the red sandstone rock and the ruins. (but most are stoned themselves) The Swiss Erick von Dהnicken, who visited the place twice, maintains in one of his books that two parallel running grooves carved in the rock were once used as a UFO-launch site. (yeah right you nutter!)Space cadet....

After our trek down we showered and headed back to Santa Cruz it would be our last day together as I was heading to Brazil, Graham was going back to England and My good friend Paul was heading north.

It was sad to say goodbye to the guys as we have had such good times together, especially Paul my travel buddy. But i will be meeting up with him in a month or so.
Graham I flew into Sao Paulo together, and then I flew onto Rio...