Martín Miguel de Güemes was a general in the Argentine civil war back in 1820. He was born in Salta and led an army of Gauchos which is commemorated in June here in the city. The house in which he received his fatal wounds is now a folkloric restaurant (peña). We decided to go for a meal there and, whilst the food and atmosphere were good, the promised espectacular was really nothing different or better to what we have seen in much cheaper places. It was good to see Bolivian president Evo Morales playing the panpipes though! The next day we took the bus 5km out from our house to the Quebrada de San Lorenzo. Now we always thought a quebrada was a dried up river bed, akin to an Arabic wadi but it would appear
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