Tag: La Rioja
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Still more flora along the Way
Many of the plants we’ve been seeing over the past few days have remained familiar, but new ones keep sprouting up! Here is a quick summary of the “new stuff” that has caught our attention as we walk through La Rioja country. We are still seeing loads of wild seeded (as well as planted) Wheat,…
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Vine Keepers
As we trekked through La Rioja and the expanse of grapes became apparent, we noticed some stone structures akin to massive stone beehives or igloos. The “guardaviñas” are circular stone constructions and are also known as “chozos (huts)”. They were built with mostly flat stones and little mortar, stacking circularly more and more concentric as…