Mummies, Gauchos, Gok Wan, Rainbow Rocks and Flash Floods - The Many Wonders of Salta!
October 25th 2013 Tuesday 11 June to Saturday 15 June
One of the most amusing aspects of my stay in Salta was the challenges of communication with the Hostel Manager. I’d like to add the caveat that I’d been speaking Spanish to others with relative success up to this point (knowing I was far from perfect and they were doing some of the work for me). Despite this, every time I spoke to him his face took on
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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 
