Blogs from Córdoba, Argentina, South America - page 10

Hallo Allemaal, Na ongeveer 3 maanden rondreizen ben ik weer aanbeland in Buenos Aires en doe ik weer even een kleine update Salta, helemaal in het noordwesten is een van de mooiste steden van Argentinië wat betreft koloniale architectuur. ook een mooi groene omgeving. Daar een dag of 2 besteed aan gebouwtjes bekijken en meer van dat soort dingen. Daarna doorgegaan naar Cafayate, een klein stadje een paar uur ten zuiden van Salta. Daar heb je kwa natuur en wijn denk ik de beste combinatie van wat argentinie te bieden heeft. Samen met Tom en Andrew heb ik daar een wijntour gedaan. De dag erna een excursie naar de rotsformaties daar in de buurt. Das was erg geslaagd. Vanuit daar dooer naar Mendoza, helaas kon dat niet in een keer en moest ik eerst naar Tucuman ... read more

Today I went with the americanas to the muesum of the university of Córdoba, founded in the 16th century by Jesuits. The building is very beautiful, but imagine studying for 16 years, then defending your thesis during 3 days in front of everybody more or less important at the university, and passing this exam with a chance of about 5%... Nowadays, the best college here in town (Monserrat) does something similar by chosing only the best students, however, this selection is based only on the children's skills since the college is for free (btw: first girl accepted in 2001). It's very interesting to learn about the history and educational system over here (also we wouldn't call this university very old..). We enlarged our knowledge even more by visiting the museo provincial de bellas artes, where they ... read more

On the 17th we headed on an overnight bus trip to Cordoba, which was unfortunately a disaster trip. The tire popped and the bus was an hour late and then 2 hours outside of Cordoba at 7am the bus broke down and we were left to figure things out on our own. Meg tried to work her magic and complained explaining she wanted to be financially compensated for the last stretch of the journey or have our colectivo (city bus) bus ticket paid for to get to our final destination. Of course ¨NO¨ was their response ¨solo soy chofer¨ can´t help you. We left our new found friends, whihc we met on the journey and headed out solos to Cordoba. Finally arriving around noon we walked a few miles, bags and all in search of a ... read more

5.30am start wellworth it. 2 hour bus ride and we got dropped in middle of nowhere / not even a bus stop just gravel layby! Driver pointed to a dirt track. At least we found visitors centre after 20min walk. Did 6.5 hour hike in spectacular scenery and saw condors which was amazing. Beautiful wild flowers, birds, fortunately no puma sightings but I did nearly step on a stick insect! Taking overnight bus to Mendoza tonight and staying at friends place for couple of nights of luxury. Rumour has it there's a pool there!!... read more

Jan 5th So I arrived to Cordoba at around 3:30am after a day and 1/2 of travel. That really took it's toll on me. But I caught a taxi to the hostel check in and caught a few hours of sleep. When I woke I over heard another travel that he got robbed from a locked locker. Lil sketchy.  I went down stairs and sorted my room price out cause I got over charged at night. I alos asked about the rock climbing poster. The woman said she'd check and get back to me.  So from there I decided to walk around the city and take in the sites. There are 7 universities here so I had high hopes for beautiful scenic city.  Well it turned out to be just average. There were some nice walking ... read more