Blogs from Salta, Salta, Argentina, South America - page 11

Nach langer Abwesenheit wieder ein Lebenszeichen aus Suedamerika...Leider ist die Internetverbindung in Bolivien (zurzeit in La Paz) recht schlecht, Fotos folgen spaeter! Nach einer wunderschoenen Busfahrt durch die Anden kam ich puenktlich zum Osterfest in Mendoza an. Schoenes und warmes Wetter erwartete mich, und die Aussicht auf jede Menge Wein. Deshalb ging es am naechsten Tag auf eine Weindegustation mit dem Fahrrad. Nach einem Weinmuseum, einer Schokoladenfabrik und dem Biergarten machten wir uns auf zur ersten und leider auch letzten "Bodega". Nach der Degustation wurde im Radverleih "Mister Hugo" gratis Wein ausgeschenkt, weshalb mir das Aufstehen am naechsten Tag eher schwer fiel. Das Highlight hinter mir verbrachte ich den Tag mit Erkunden der Stadt mit Museum, vielen Parks und am Abend fanden in der ganzen Stadt gratis Klassikkonzerte Stadt. Nach 4 Tagen Mendoza ging es wei ... read more

We got into Salta at 9pm on the Friday and took a taxi to the hostel we had booked. Unfortunately, and rather annoyingly, there were no beds for us as some guys had missed their bus and so needed to stay an extra night. The hostel guy, to give him his dues, rang a place around the corner for us called Exxes, who did have space and a better deal in fact, so we wandered over, got showered and went out in search of dinner. The area we had to walk through to the centre of town seemed a little on the dodgy side – a sketchy park, badly lit, random groups of people hanging around watching your every move – but as we moved north of the park, it became much more pleasant with low ... read more

Day 52 -53 After the 25 hour bus ride we arrive to a rainy Salta and catch a cab to our hostel (with the moodiest taxi driver ever - Em tries, amd fails to charm him), which to our great relief is very nice. The next day we explore (now) sunny Salta with visits to the modern art gallery and Museo de Arqueolgia. The latter has a display of three inca child mummies. The story is that the best looking children were chosen to be sacrificed to the Inca gods, which although was a great honour, involved being drugged and buried (we thought definitely better to be ugly to escape that fate). The altitude they were buried at (c. 6700m) means that they were perfectly preserved when they were found and it was more than a ... read more

Don´t cry for me Argentina. No worry, they won´t. So, yesterday I crossed the border with Bolivia. What I tought would be a piece of cake was actually a piece of cake but cooked in a cold oven. Pretty easily I left Bolivia, with a bus 2h after I crossed thew bridge between Villazon and Quiarca (the river IS the border). And then I got stuck for 3h. Why ? because there is only 1 person to stamp your passport !! Thing is that they found 72kg of Cocaine hidden in a car earlier the same day, so they were very cautious with cars, less with backpackers. I missed my bus, managed to take another one at 11pm to San Salvador de Jujuy, waited 2h there (and I tell you, so many things to do at ... read more

Obidvaja sme uz dlhsie citili, ze si potrebujeme poriadne oddychnut. Salta a aj hostel v ktorom sme byvali sa nam velmi pacili a tak sme sa rozhodli vyhlasit oddychovy den tu. Ja som z nasho hostela nevyliezla vobec, cely den som stravila v pyzame a mikine. Stanik vybehol len na chvilu, kupit nejake jedlo. Ale aby sme nevyzerali uplne lenivo, tak sme si nieco vyprali a navarili dobry obed. Zvysok dna sme si len tak citali knihu a boli na internete. We both felt for quite some time that we needed a proper relaxy day. We liked Salta and the hostel a lot so we decided for a lazy day here. I stayed whole day in our hotel, just in my pyjamas and jumper and Stan left just for a while to buy some food. But ... read more