Drove down more switchbacks on a rough road to the archeology site.
No one was around so we entered and had a look around. A big site and
well worth a visit.
Now on a reasonable
yellow dirt road. Which finally turned to bitumen. The valley floors
here are well irrigated. There are small herd
s of dairy cows and lots of
different crops growing.We had a diversion around road-works which was not well signposted, but finally found the guy waving a red stop sign in a corn field. A very narrow windy road up out of the river bed. Made it to the tarseal again only to initially turn the wrong way until map was consulted. We had crossed from one converging road onto the other so were now on the other side of the valley.
Starting at 400m alt we
drove up the side of a cliff to the top at 1050m alt. We camped
overlooking the very fertile valley floor.