With Bolivia behind us it was time for some decadence - Argentinian style! Of course this means quality wine, thicker-than-your-thigh steaks and five star class buses - hardly ´roughing it´. Our first stop in Argentina was Salta , but it took an interesting couple of bus rides to get there... Getting to the Bolivian/Argentinian border meant a 4 am bus ride along a dirt road, on a bus that would have looked more suited to the set of a Mad Max movie than to ferrying passengers. But as always we arrived in one piece, at the freezing border town of Villazon and its Argentine counterpart La Quiaca. Once over the border it was a different story altogether. The bus left on time, was clean, the roads were PAVED, and onboard was a machine serving copious amounts
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