Day 16  -  Out of the mountains
Up early and off. Long hot walk back to road and arrived at 12:30 Then typical S Am delays and confusion as no transfer is ready to take us back to Mendoza. Then we are told that the storms we experienced have cased a series of landslides and that the roads are closed back to Mendoz - not the best news for Tim who has just spent rather a lot on changing his flight back home to tomorrow am!
Then we are told that in fact the driver has stopped in Upsallata for lunch -this news comes at about 3pm and whist there is releif we will get back to town tonight it is tinged with annoyance that we are having to hang round for the driver.
In the meantime we find that a superb BBQ has been prepared for us - as much beef, pork and sausage as we could possibly eat. This is followed by a few hours lazing in the sun / shade at Penitentes before the transfer finally arrives at about 5pm.
The transfer is, it turns out, full with another group out from Mendoza who, understandably and just as we did, had a good lunch on the way out.

Anyway, we head off and have great fun with the drivers choice of music; Greatest Hits of the 80s!The time flies as we reminisce about the era when you could hear the words and the music had a beat that you understood! We get back to Mendoza at about 21:30 and it is off for dinner and drinks to celebrate a successful and injury free expedition.

Finally got into transfer back to Mendoza at 6pm. Slightly rectified by superb BBQ prepared for us -