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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So now I know why this place is called Salta. I spent the day on an excursion to Salinas Grandes, the salt flats, high on the Puna (high altitude desert). We began the day by going back to Purmamarca to the same crafts market that we (ok, I) saw on Monday. As the others on the excursion were all different people from before, I used the opportunity to sit in the plaza and read. After Purmamarca we veered in a different direction in the Valley of Seven Colors and climbed (climbed sounds better than drove, right?) up and over a very [View Full Entry]

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Today is a federal holiday (somehow to celebrate Gaucho culture) , thus I did not go on any formal excursions. I slept in until 9, lazed around until about 11, and then headed over for mate at my favorite wi-fi zone. In the afternoon, I decided it was time to explore Salta. All of the shops were closed today, but there was a crafts fair in the park, so I walked through that. At the other end of the park there is a gondola that takes you up to the top of Cerro San Bernadino with panoramic city views. Today was [View Full Entry]

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(written last night) I am currently on a coche cama suite bus heading for Salta. This is the common mode of transportation here. It is a double decker bus. This particular bus is all first class accomodations. There are six other passengers upstairs with me and four downstairs. I am in a wide leather seat that reclines 180 degrees and has a privacy curtian that extends around me. There is an on-board waitress who comes around offering coffee, tea, mate, and sodas, which are all included in the price of the trip. There is also a dinner and a breakfast. I [View Full Entry]

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Hola todo el mundo, We have just spent the last few weeks travelling up the Northern part of Argentina, seeing amazingly diverse landscapes. We were in Mendoza 2 weeks ago where we kicked off our Andean adventure with a rather difficult 5 hour horse trek. It was a great day although slightly taxing especially when my horse seemed to be more interested in veering off the track towards cliff edges in search of grass. The highlight of the day was heading back to the estancia for a big authentic Parilla with lots of home made wine. We sat in the sun [View Full Entry]

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Goeie ´s middags deze middag. Zo! daar zijn we dan al weer. Ondertussen is onze reis al 8 weken bezig en hebben we jullie al flink wat verhaaltjes foto´s doodgegooid, dit blijven we doen. Al is het alleen maar omdat we te lui zijn om een ouderwets dagboekje bij te houden :) Na onze vorige post zijn we opnieuw de bus in gestapt om 30 uur later aan te komen in het wijn-walhalla van Argentinië, Mendoza. De stad ligt midden tussen de wijnvelden en vooral de Malbecwijn is de lokale trots. Een prima wijntje, en door de prijs wordt ie bijna [View Full Entry]

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(Holly Writing) So.. we were only going to stay in Salta for a couple of days. How come we were still there after a week? well, as Jane and I were crossing the central plaza of Salta one sunny evening, we were approached by an American girl who asked whether we had any plans over the next few days... instantly suspicious that she was trying to sell us something, we were guarded until she convinced us that really what we wanted to do was go on a 5 day road trip with herself and two Israeli guys. We thought about it, [View Full Entry]

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We arrived to Argentina with the plan to stay a few weeks in Buenos Aires, studying spanish and maybe taking some tango classes in the evenings. After all the travelling around and having to constantly move on from one place to another I was really looking forward to staying in one place for a longer time. We arrived to Argentina in the autumn so it was time to say goodbye to warm weather and that lovely tan of ours that we had been working on for so long! The start to our trip in Argentina wasn't too great. We arrived to [View Full Entry]

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