Güemes Statue

Gaucho Town - Salta, Argentina

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June 20th 2011
In the end, I think Ciaran and I spent a bit too long in Salta and so feeling on the place in the end were undeservably a little rougher than they should have been. Staying as long as we did though, couldn't really be helped as I had the dreaded man flu for the first couple of days. Feeling rough and getting ill in Salta, I put down to the huge bus journey we'd undertaken in arriving. B ... 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