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May 19th 2013
Santiago,Mendoza, BA, Iguasu Dazed. Confused. Wide eyed. We time warped our way to South America (gaining a day with the time change) like rabbits in the headlights. Arriving in Santiago Chile we felt out of our depth having not done any research about the next leg of our trip. Desperately hanging onto all the Spanish we knew ('Hola') we realised this was going to be far more challenging than we had anticipated. Luckily we were eased into the experience by some of Charlie's family friends in Santiago having lunch at their mountain club and being shown the sights of the modern, European-esque, high rise, economic capital of Chile. After only a couple of days in Chile we moved on to Argentina and realised that Argentinian travel was right up our street. Although it is more expensive ... read more
April 30th 2013
This is our second entry around Salta, but this time we are venturing north for a loop of 500km following first the tracks of the "Train in the clouds", followed by the Grande Salinas, finishing by the amazing scenery of Purmacarca before heading back to Salta. But first, while exploring the provinces of Salta and Jujuy, we stay a total of two nights in Salta. The city is pretty compact, there are two nice churches...on nice little museum with a child mummy sacrified by the incas...an actually pretty interesting exhibits, even for Leslie and Tiffany...and that's nearly it for Salta. We also found a great restaurant next door from the Sheraton for some serious milanesas and steak... The area around Salta is basically boring, you need to hit at least 100km out of town to start ... read more
April 29th 2013
Sad to say...we have less than 2 months left in Buenos Aires....so here is our last trip in the north-west provinces....but what a trip! We'll have to agree that I book my trips months ahead...playing with the school calendar as soon as I can put my hands on one...summer 2017 anybody? Well, this is Argentina...last year the school was off for the all week of 1st of May. This year, I fly in on Tuesday morning for my little crazy two weeks round-the-world. I show up at school the same Tuesday afternoon...to find out, this year they only have 1st of May, a Wednesday off....flights are paid, hotels are sorted out, long distance tickets are in hands....we are going...the school will be off for four more days for Tiffany and Leslie. And all this, with the ... read more
April 24th 2013
Ah Salta, you have made up for the bus trip from hell to get here. Leaving Mendoza at 8pm last Friday we were in good spirits after having spent a nice week in Argentina's 4th largest city and wine capital. Soon though, our spirits were dented as not long after a somewhat passable dinner was served, a loud clunking sound started emanating from the back of the bus. It was not a good sound, and was even louder when the bus changed directions between lanes or around corners. The drivers soon took notice and started stopping the bus to check on it every 30 minutes. After a few hours we found ourselves in a very small & dusty truckstop of a town disturbing the local mechanic from his friday night beer drinking (it was midnight by ... read more
April 10th 2013
Since we left the UK almost everyday has been filled to the brim with activities, wether it be walking, sightseeing and other touristy things its finally started to catch up on us, were both pretty tired. And if one of my mates was away travelling for 9 months and I'd been at home working my arse off I'd tell them to get lost, but we are genuinely more tired than we had been throughout uni. Coming from the ore inspiring, making you feel tiny, Iguazu falls, we headed for Salta, a smallish city surrounded by the Andean mountains. The quality of the bus ride had deteriorated enormously since the last one; our pre dinner drinks of whiskey had been replaced with nothingness and our gorgeous braised steak, mash and wine has their place taken by a ... read more
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April 9th 2013
Hi all, Tme to catch- up on some long due updates from our trip, I have actually been pick-pocketed a couple of days ago so me and Carmen are stuck in La Paz until i can get my emergency passport done... Other items in my wallet included national ID, driving licence and credit card. It was to be expected that something would happen on such a long trip it just sucks when it happens. Anyway... Our route from San Pedro took us to the beautiful city of Salta in Argentina, based on recommendation from fellow travelers along the way we opted to do the famous Uyuni salt lakes jeep tour from Tupiza in Bolivia, welcoming a less busy road (than the one from San Pedro) and better landscape - the best alternative for Tupiza was to ... read more
Arriving in Salta and day trip to Cachi
Published: April 12th 2013South America » Argentina » Salta » Cachi
April 9th 2013
9/4/13 Cordoba to Salta Once again another mile long walk to the bus station, found our stop, got on the bus, got handed ‘breakfast’ and off we set for the 13 hour marathon to Salta. We had the front seats at the top which meant great views but being baked in the sun, there was a tv screen near us and films were shown continuously. The bus did actually stop once for 30 minutes – so the driver could eat and then the non-stop filmathon continued until we arrived in Salta. We walked to our hotel (the San Francisco) in the company of Rick from Orlando who was also on our bus and by the time we arrived we were totally knackered! 10 – 13th Salta, Argentina Feeling better after a good night’s sleep we set ... read more
Hoogvlakte op, hoogvlakte af: het noorden van Argentinie
Published: April 8th 2013South America » Argentina » Salta » Iruya
April 8th 2013
De paasdagen zijn we druk met Spaanse les. Spaans leren in Argentinie: ieder land heeft blijkbaar zijn eigen manier van onderwijs. Wij treffen een juf die op iedere slak zout legt. We leren veel, maar dat communiceren in een vreemde taal ook een grote hoeveelheid lol is, speelde tijdens onze les nauwelijks een rol. Wat een verschil met ons klasje in Nederland ! Met wat extra kennis van het Spaans gaan we een auto huren. Oeff..... Juf had misschien toch gelijk. Schort het echt nog zo aan ons spaans? We krijgen een gammele oude brik. De eerste dag moeten we gelijk al twee keer de banden laten repareren. Op dag 2, een paar honderd kilometer verder en in the middle of nowhere, ontdekken we dat de reserveband onbruikbaar is. Geen rubber of profiel, waardoor de staaldraden ... read more
April 8th 2013
It has been a hard long ride from Arequipa in Peru to Cafayate in Argentina. After an early start out of Arequipa, with me leading everyone out of town with Tiny leading from then on. The instructions and briefing was specific that we do not go to Lima, well how come I saw Jack and Rodrigo returning from that direction as I was heading towards Chile??. There is a tricky Y intersection that we had also talked about at the briefing, unbeknown to me Tiny took the right hand fork (as he and Rippa did a couple of years ago) and took most of the guys with him. I spotted Don a little bit down that road and had seen Scratch getting fuel back a few kilometres, so I got Don back on track, but he ... read more
April 6th 2013
We arrived in Salta at around 6.30am after our last, crazily expensive, 18 hour bus journey in Argentina. Wooooooo! After a short taxi ride we got to the hostel and luckily there were some beds free in our dorm so we got to nap for a few more hours. When we got up, we got showered and headed into the main plaza for breakfast where there are lots of little cute plaza-side cafes. We also went to do some exploring of its beautiful colonial architecture and museums - on the way of course I got followed by yet another stray dog. This had become an all to common occurrence for me in Argentina and I'm hoping it won't be continuing in Bolivia. After breakfast we managed to shrug off our stray dog and headed to the ... read more
