Having felt somewhat disconnected from the "gringo trail" recently, it was a shock to find myself surrounded by backpackers on the bus to Salta. The amount of crisp-eating was astounding, and I doubt even the most indigenous of villages would have sported such a collection of chullos. I noticed that the girl in front of me was learning some Spanish so, nosy by nature, I peered at the page she was currently reading. My eyes alit on a sentence, presumably intended for her boyfriend, that read "Yo quiero un festival de cock pronto" and I nearly laughed out loud - surely [View Full Entry]

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This year I feel like the Queen of England as I'm having two birthdays. My unofficial birthday took place yesterday afternoon (9th July) at a beautiful tea room in Salta city, namely: Sabor a Té (Translation for all you non Spanish speaking types: A taste of tea). The 9th July also happens to be one of the most important public holidays in the Argentinean calendar, Independence Day. For the majority, it's just another excuse to have a day off work so I thought I'd take full advantage of people's availability to get 'the mob' together to celebrate the end of an [View Full Entry]

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Dag 23. Eirik var oppe tidlig - han var begynt aa bli forkjolet. Vi satt lenge med frokosten, og planla og ta en tur med den lokale “Ulriksbanen” ut paa dagen. Etter frokosten gikk vi opp til plazaen (plaza General Gumes) hvor vi var paa marked igaar. Vi satt oss paa en benk og horte sondagsgudstjenesten via hoytalere, som er plassert ut i gatene i hele byen. Solen varmet helt fantastisk, var 26 grader idag. PS: Husk at det er midt paa vinteren her. Etter en rask lunsj gikk vi ned for og ta banen, som ikke er langt unna hovedbusstasjonen. [View Full Entry]

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Dag 22. Siri og Kristian gifter seg idag - mange gratulasjoner fra Salta! Eirik vaaknet som vanlig tidlig, og vi spiste frokost i 9:30 tiden. Den besto av croissanter med sirup og ristede skiver, sjokoladepaalegg og syltetoy, ferskpresset appelsinjuice og kaffe/te. Med all den sote frokosten og de sote kakene de spiser hver dag, er det rart at saa mange er tynne. Eirik var daarlig paa morningen, kan det ha vaert hotdog'en han spiste i gaar kveld, eller kun en ny bakterieflora!? Mest sannsynlig det siste. Etter et par timer med oppkast og diare saa det ut til aa roe seg [View Full Entry]

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Dag 21. Vaaknet med noe stive nakker og saare rumper etter en urolig natt paa bussen. En del av turen paa natten gikk paa grusveier - saa det ristet en del. Etter en forsinket ankomst i Salta (kl 10:45) gikk vi spissrotgang mellom alle som skulle "selge" oss ledig overnatting. Vi hadde plukket ut en Bed & Breakfast fra Argentinaboken (Rough Guide), men der var det dessverre ikke ledig. Det skulle vaere et hjemmekoselig lite sted. Vi gikk derfor videre innover mot byen, og paa veien fant vi vaart neste krypinn. Etter 3 netter i Iguazu i muggent rom, hadde vi [View Full Entry]

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So another overnight bus journey, this time around 11 hours, from Cordoba to Salta. We knew that this wasn't going to be quite as luxurious as they weren't offering the same service. The seats reclined some way but were nowhere near as comfortable as the full recline though we did manage to sleep a reasonable amount. Dinner appeared to be a range of different cheese and ham sandwiches - brown bread, white bread, some kind of rolypoly pudding thing - with cheese and ham - and a main course of rice with unidentified meat. Overall probably worse than airline food. In [View Full Entry]

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First of all, I am SO sorry I have neglected this! I have been procrastinating, and not sitting down to focus on the latest update! I hope you are doing well...in good health... enjoying the summer up there. I hear, particularly in CA, there are, some 1400 blazes going? Glad I´m not there! How sad to think of the loss of habitat that must be occuring in the wild areas, like we haven´t been losing enough! Sit back and relax, THIS one is a long one! Currently I am in Salta, LA LINDA (the beautiful), Argentina... I arrived over a week [View Full Entry]

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Last night was the first of a handful of dates to see the Provincial Ballet Company of Salta perform two new works, namely: The Nutcracker & Peter & The Wolf. I must admit that when I heard they would be performing Peter & The Wolf I regressed for a moment back to my childhood days of listening to the story on vinyl. Where do the years go? So, after having "a moment" I decided there and then that as soon as tickets were on sale I was going to run down to the theatre and get me some 'entradas'. I am [View Full Entry]

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After another full day of driving after leaving Uyuni we arrived in the town of Tupiza but with very little going on it was only used as a place to sleep for the night and we moved on. The internet was too slow to use here so I pass on writing a blog. The reason we had gone to Tupiza was because the miners were still striking so we had to skip our Potosi as we would not have been able to get into the mines or even get petrol to making it further south. The following day confirmed that we [View Full Entry]

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Hola allemaal, Via Resistencia,waar we eigenlijk een paar dagen zouden verblijven, maar na een paar uur rondlopen hadden we al van; hier gaan we niet langer blijven,niet veel te beleven,we gaan zorgen dat we met de volgende bus naar Salta gaan.En dat hebben we kunnen regelen...gelukkig! Met de Flechabus zijn we dus naar Salta gegaan(14 uur). Salta ligt ten noordwesten van B.A. en ligt wat hoger,zodat we meestal wel goed weer hadden. In Salta zijn we op maandagochtend 9 juni aangekomen.We werden opgewacht door iemand van het hostel(Hostel in Salta).We hadden een gratis taxirit naar onz [View Full Entry]

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