Lever 6h30, car l’agence vient nous chercher à 7h00 à l'hotel. Notre premier arrêt et au Salar d’Atacama. Il est gigantesque, 320 000 hectares, on voit du sel partout, avec des couleurs impressionnantes et aussi tout l’écosystème qui y est associé. 1ère halte dans le salar, plus précisément  à la laguna Chaxa où on a vu des flamands roses (des flamencos chilenos et des flamencos de James).La vie des flamand roses n’est pas facile, ils sont protégés car d’après un recensement dans les salars du Chili et de Bolivie, il n’en reste plus beaucoup, car ils man [View Full Entry]

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First Excursion; El Tatio geysers We got up at 3:30am to be on time for our 4:00am excursion.. Tough morning... or I should rather say tough night! (When we were going to the Gerseys, I thought about how crazy we are to get up at 3:30am and go in the middle of the desert at a temperature of about -10 degrees). We tried to sleep on the bus on our way to the Geyser del Tatio but the roads in the middle of the desert are really bumby so didn't manage to sleep much. (I had no idea what a Geyser [View Full Entry]

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There are only 3 buses a week that go to San Pedro and they all leave at 7:00am so we got up at 5:30 to be at the bus station at 6:30am. The bus ride was amazing with rocks of 7 different colors in the first part and the desert in the second part. I was happy to see a lot of captuses! :) The landscape started changing as we were getting to Chile. We finally got to the Argentinean customs located at about 5,000 meters above the sea. I started being nauxious as I was walking around the customs. A [View Full Entry]

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After a long 12 hour bus ride we finally made it to Salta. When we got to the bus station we were surprised to realize that everyone was staring at us, children and women included. We were by far the whitest and blondest girls in the place. We couldn't wait to get out of there. We waited for about an hour to get our Salta-San Pedro ticket (I think I already mentionned companies have random open hours). We were quite relieved that our suspicious bank transfer to the bus company worked out and got our hang written bus ticket. We went [View Full Entry]

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We headed to school for our last day of classes in Cordoba.Elena didn't seem to be sad about leaving her teacher Andrea... who asked really personal and awkward questions in class (such as were you spanked when you were young or describe your first real relationship and how it started) Oh I and forgot to mention she made out with one of the students. We spent most of the afternoon getting ready for our week of travelling. The bus was unusually almost on time, which is quite different than what we are used to. Also we were pleasantly surprised that we [View Full Entry]

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I spent the first part of the afternoon reserving the hotels and excursions for next week while Elena was writing her final exam. After her exam we walked around the city, going in some stores and eating our daily ice cream. We then had a Cordoba beer in a really nice restaurant close to a church. I unsurprisingly spilled most of my beer int he restaurant but Elena was nice enough to give me some of hers. We also finally managed to visit Cordoba's main church located at Plaza San Martin. After dinner we went to the BBQ organized by the [View Full Entry]

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We went to school, then had lunch with nice stuffed tomatoes. We searched for tasty ice cream (again) and we spent the afternoon doing more internet work [View Full Entry]

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C’était une journée plutôt tranquille aujourd’hui. Nous sommes allées à nos cours et ensuite au centre d’achat. Nous avons ensuite réservé quelques hotels pour notre semaine de voyage. [View Full Entry]

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Nous avons pris un tour organisé dans la region de Translasierra. Nous avons sorties de Cordoba pour premièrement passer par les villes de Calos Paz, San Antonio de Arredondo, Mayu Sumak, Icho Cruz et Cuesta Blanca. Ensuite nous avons commencé à traverser le chemin des hauts sommets. Malheureusement il pleuvait alors la vue n'etait pas aussi belle que d’habitude. Nous nous sommes arretées pour diner à Mina Clavero. Le village de Mina Clavero est un lieu de villégiature très prisé en ete. Il est traversé d'une rivière. (En fait nous étions peu impressionées par la rivière.... étant donné [View Full Entry]

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We decided to spend the day outside Cordoba and visit another town. We went to a small bus station to take a bus to go to Alta Gracia. We randomly ran into one of the students from school at the bus station (Alia from France) so we ended up spending the day with her. We first had lunch at a small restaurant (one of the 2-3 restaurants of Alta Gracia) and had a really good omelette and tortilla de papas. (We should really import tortilla de papas into Canada). We then went to the Che Guevara museum. It was actually one [View Full Entry]

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