Today we got up early and headed out to the square. We had been told that there was a procession for Palm Sunday and wanted to have a look. There was nothing there so we headed over to the bus terminal to buy our next tickets... and walked straight into it! We had heard a guy singing on a megaphone and when we got to the road into town there was a massive group of people, all with large bunches of palms, olive branches, lavender and other branches. At the front were some priests and a boy on a donkey, and so many people were following and singing. We went with them to the main square, opposite the church, where they had set up a podium and said mass. It was really amazing, even Rob was impressed!

Later we had lunch then after were collected for our tour of the quebrada de las conchas, or shells (which leaves in the afternoon as the light is best and so people don't burn in the desert heat). A driver took us all through the amazing mountains, originally seabeds but massively pushed and shifted by earthquakes over time to become a line of desert dry mountains and valleys, hence the shells in the rock.

There were so many colours and shapes, like rocks that looked like windows, an obelisk, a toad, or a monk, and one crevice in massive rock worn by waterfalls in the summer to become a natural incredible amphitheatre, where they have concerts in summer. One of the best parts was a line of peaks of so many different colours because of the different minerals, it looked like the artist's palette we'd seen in Death Valley.

The last was la garganta del diablo, the devil's throat (incidentally a very common name for unusual and dangerous natural sites in South America, like one we'd seen at Igassu falls). It was very harsh rock where lots of people have been injured by it falling. It was all spectacular and incredibly impressive.

When we got back we had dinner at a lovely restaurant, and quite a lot of wine; we got chatting to a Dutch couple and ended up sharing lots of the local torrentes wine. I'm starting to get a taste for it!