Falls Creek Food & Wine Festival

Falls Creek Food & wine festival January 2006

Inka Marka performed in the Australian Alps at the Falls creek food & wine festival central Victoria in mid Janaury. What an adventure that weekend was. Starting with a 4am start from Melbourne, Jose and the equipment van left Melbourne for the 3 and a half hour journey up the highway to Wangaratta, where he met up with the rest 0f the boys around 7:30 am, who had spent the previous night at our Bolivian freind Freddy's farm, , so they could snatch a few extra hours of ZZzzzzz's before the two hour journey into the Alps to Falls Creek. The festival was a great succes, with many tasty morseld offered to sample. After a lunch of Emu burger, and kangaroo fillet, washed down with some choice Milawa wine vintages, the music flowed gently over the mountain tops, with its haunting melodies echoing through the hills. The band were ushered into the quad chair ski lift, up the mountain, and to the peaks, where this photo was taken. After a sunny afternoon with typical Australian summer temperatures, soaring into the high 30 degrees, the guys started their slow trek down the scenic mountain side, slowly negotiating the blind corners, and deep ravines, Jose constantly reminding us that the roads in Bolivia were steeper and in worse condition, and to "seguir adelante", so we could meet our 10pm deadline to arrive in Canberra that night before the hotel we had booked shut their doors tight for the night. I think they were secretly more worried that the night of salsa dancing and rendevouz with freinds that they had previously planned was about to be severley compromised!