More BBQ Fun and walks

Stayed one more day in Córdoba. Decided to go for a walk to see the waterfalls. We were told by some new argentinian boys we had met the night before at another fab BBQ, (this time only 2, from BA- who are going to take me to a football match) that they are really beautiful.
We(me and Skye-who i met on the bus to salta) thought it would be a pretty short walk to the casscades, only 6 km each way... but when we got there it turned out we had another hour or so to walk! There were some argentinians there determined to be our guides, but we were not wanting to spend any money, so pretended not to speak a word of Spanish. but the guy was pretty persistant. He just kept talking at us, and telling us about the route we had to take, we needed water etc.. and finally when i said in english - we dont speak spanish- he took the hint and left us to it.
The walk was pretty long, but really good for us. Had been overeating on wine flavoured icecream, and snicker flavoured icecream.. and god food in general. The walk through the cannyon was pretty cool. Very rugged walk so a bit of rock climbing involved and stuff which was a good laugh, but managed to completely destroy my jeans! The cascades themselves were pretty cool, but couldnt really even see them as they were obscured by some rocks, and in order to see them we would have had to climb down a very dangerous part of the rocks, and there was no real exit. Plus we were getting hungry, and were tired, as we hadnt planned for this 6 hour excursion, we were only prepared for 3hours. On the way back we tried to hitchhike, but all the cars were full.. so ended up walking all the way back to our hostel.
We then spent the rest of the evening trying to kill time, as our us to Tucuman was leaving at 2am. We didnt feel too hungry but went to a restaurant anyway at 7:30, and were relying on normal south american service which takes hours normally, and were disapointed when our food arrived within 5 mins of us ordering. We have no idea HOW this was possible. They must have already had our food in the oven! I have no idea... which worried us a bit, because surely only a microwave can prepare food that quick!
We jumped on our 2am bus to Tucuman, and we had the worst seats, they were slanting forward, so we just kept slipping down. We wanted to move, but when we had bought our seats the ladt said the bus was almost full! So we stayed put, and thought that maybe we were collecting others on the way! As it turns out, the whole night we spent starting and stopping, but at no point was the bus ever full!
We arrived in Tucuman.. and went out in search of food before our next adventure...