View of Salta from above

Salta

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March 15th 2009
So now I am in Salta, way up in the northwest of the country, a 20-hour bus journey north west from Buenos Aires. My journey to Salta got off to a bit of a bad start. I almost missed the bus: when the hostel booked my ticket, they phoned the bus company to find out what platform I should wait at. Well, the platform they had given me was at the opposite end from where my bus actually was waitin ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more