soo last wedensday becca and I got on an 18 hour bus to salta from retiro at like 6:15 in the evening. they played bomb movies - premonition, made of honor, 27 dresses, and fed us delish alfajors and an edible dinner. we got to salta the next morning around noonish. we dropped off our stuff at backpackers hostel - city and made out for the city to do some exploring. we saw some linda churches, ate amazing food at doña salta - an amazing empanada with dried salted meat. we took a tram thing up to the top of the [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone! Right now Dain and I are at the front desk of our hostel in the city of Salta waiting for our car rental to show up, its already a half hour late. We are going south to visit the cities and national parks south of the town of Salta. First we will head towards Cachi, making a stop halfway to trek and explore. Then we´ll move towards Cafayate again stopping at a halfway point to get a good look around. After Cafayate we head north back towards Salta stopping to see the dam. We have the car for 3 [View Full Entry]

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Saturday was an even earlier start as we headed out to a hilltop Pachamama memorial and then to the HUGE salt flats. There is no road through the salt flats, but the idea is to drive around on them wherever you want…this is where having rented a car and being on my own with a couple other people would have been FUN. The salt flats were pretty similar to those in Utah, except much bigger and instead of being completely flat, they have ridges all over them that are mostly in the shape of pentagons (not exactly ideal for breaking land [View Full Entry]

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English version below Juz wiele razy zdarzylo mi sie w czasie tej podrozy, ze bylam w tak cudnym miejscu, iz sadzilam, ze nic piekniejszego juz nie zobacze. I tyle samo razy Argentyna mnie zaskakiwala. 2 lub 20 godzin jazdy autobuses i znow roztaczaja sie krajobrazy piekniejsze, niz moglabym sobie wyobrazic. Na polnoc od Salty znajduje sie kilka wiosek, z ktorych mozna podziwiac Quebrada Humahuaca (Wawoz Humahuaca). Z braku czasu zdecydowalam sie wybrac tylko do jednej z nich-Purmamarca, ktora znajduje sie u podnozy Cerro de los Siete Colores (Wzgorze Siedmiu Kolorow). Tego miejsca nie j [View Full Entry]

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The smooth asphalt of the Ruta 52 brought us to Purmamarca and its colourful hills. The scenery was truly gorgeous at every turn and we soon ran out of superlatives in our diaries! Just outside town we stopped to take a photo of some purple and yellow hills. There we met an American couple who had read THIS blog! Small world eh!!! Once we got to Purmamarca we were surprised at how busy it was. All of the hostels seemed to be either full or way too expensive for us. The Tourist Information Centre showed us a house on the map [View Full Entry]

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San Salvador de Jujuy... de poort naar de Quebrada... 1600km van Buenos Aires, maar lichtjaren verwijderd in termen welvaart, cultuur en traditie... Jujuy lijkt ook meer gemeen te hebben met zijn buurlanden Chili en Bolivië; deze regio spreidt zich dan ook over een grote archeologische zone en de inca-invloeden zijn hier dan ook erg uitgesproken. Ik herken de typische indiaanse gezichtstrekken uit Bolivië en de Quechua taal weerklinkt overal... In Buenos Aires kon ik me gemakkelijk voorstellen dat ik me in Europa bevond, maar in Jujuy is het onmogelijk om te vergeten dat je in Zuid-Amer [View Full Entry]

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Hallo ihr Lieben in der grossen weiten Welt, Eigentlich wollten wir in die Wolken fahren und nach einer Fahrt durch die Puna durch die Quebrade de Humahuaca zurueck nach Salta fahren. Aber schon nach 36 Km mussten wir unsere Plaene aendern. Auf einer schmalen Schotterpiste die sich an den Haengen einer Schlucht in Richtung Wolken windet stand ein LKW quer auf der Piste. Er war gegen den Berg geprallt und an Ort und Stelle stehen geblieben. Waehrend wir noch warteten und hofften, dass er irgendwie zur Seite bewegt werden wuerde, kam aus den Wolken ein Bus und blieb [View Full Entry]

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