We woke up in the desert full of big boulders. Formed by weather erosion they were nearly perfectly round shaped. Some of them were solitaires, some in huge piles. Cardons and Cirios were growing between them and helped to create the landscape which reminds of age of prehistoric creatures. You could feel the age of Earth here.
The road to Cataviña village, the biggest "civilization" in Valle de Los Cirios (around 300 km stretch between El Rosario and Punta Prieta), was mainly downhill, but due to that amazing landscape we didn't go too fast (taking tons of pictures and climbing the rocks). There is one place with cave paintings near Cataviña. Short trail led us between the rocks to something like small cave, actually it was just overhang under a huge boulder. Paintings are nothing extraordinary but the whole place was very nice. It was on the edge of small canyon with pools of water in river-bed and with a few palm trees. That place had good energy, even though there were many vultures but that was because of dead cow lying next to the road.
To say that Cataviña is village or town wouldn't be exactly correct. We saw just a few houses slowly falling apart, two small shops, old pickup truck with couple of plastic containers selling overpriced gasoline, one hotel which looked quite new (to compare with the rest of Cataviña) and a lot of garbage everywhere. But you can get water and some supplies here. Just after Cataviña is another small canyon with oases and spring which had so much water that even in this time of the year it flooded the road. We met here bunch of guys heading to some surfing paradise called "Seven Sisters" or something like that. They were wowed with our story :-)
Further south from Cataviña, the landscape slowly changed, it was more hilly and big boulders disappeared. In the evening sunlight we headed slowly uphill and the mountains, so far, far on the horizon, drew closer.
Our campsite was on the edge of a deep valley, on rocky ground with nearly no cactuses, but with amazing view of the volcanos and table mountains around.
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