Salta Tram (Teleferico)

We spent 5 nights in Salta province in north east Argentina, or "Salta la Linda" (the beautiful) as the locals call it, much to my dear wife's amusement! Salta, the province's capital is a beautiful city with colonial buildings and tree lined avenues. We checked into a lovely hotel in an old renovated colonial mansion. We were located 3 blocks from …

Partis de bon matin de San Pedro de Atacama, nous traversons la douane chilienne pour arriver dans l'Altiplano. Le paysage est magnifique, on traverse la réserve nationale des flamands (Chili), puis la frontière Argentine et la douane au milieu de nul part.
Vient ensuite le côté argentin qui petit à petit devient plus aride, on traverse un …

As I'm writing this we are making our way up the Quebrada de Humahuaca — a valley north of Salta — towards Tilcara. We've just spent 3 days in nice and tidy Salta.
We arrived on Sunday evening after the comfy 19 hour bus ride from Buenos Aires to find grey skies and rain drops as we walked towards the hostel (Hostel 7 Duendes) that …

Salta is great. I started today by taking the gondola-telferico-cable
car up to a high point that overlooked the city. Then I took the 1,200
stepped-path through the mountain back down. Sometimes I would go a
little off the beaten path and I liked it. I then went to a modern art
museum and it had one exhibit of little kids doing …

High speed Internet. We all catch up on blogs and photos. Our only event is to head to a hilltop park on a tram. Nice view and a bottle of wine. For dinner is another steak. This turns out to be a recurring theme in Arg where steaks are amazing and ...

... extra relaxation. This town is Colonial, filled with many indigenous people, not European at all, as is the rest of Argentina. I walk, explore, take the tram to the mountain top for views of the city, have coffee in the main plaza and go for the big ...

... Salta. The bus ride took us from the high, dry and brown altiplano to the much lower, much greener valleys of Northern Argentina. It was amazingly refreshing to see new buds and flowers on trees, green grass and flowers everywhere. Spring had recently ...

... doing nothing but people watching. Visited a church or two, saw a couple old buildings...but the highlite was people watching (Argentina gives Latvia some competion in the gorgeous woment department). Back at the hostel I placed some ping pong with a ...

... body. We survived the long flight to BA, transfer to the domestic airport and have a 5 hour wait for 2 hr flight to Salta. There is a God. We only got slightly lost finding our hotel in the dark, but were rewarded with a wonderful upgrade at Parador ...

... . It was our first look at the andes mountain range that spans through most of the continent. Sarah and I are seeming to enjoy Argentina the further north we go. Our hostel had a great location to a local market, with huge meals of Pollo con Arroz, one ...

... Andes - basically "freeze dried" - very interesting.  The museum is on one of the best examples of a colonial plaza in Argentina and is surrounded by colonial architecture.  The city is well known for its balconies.  It also has a tram ...

... bisogno di una pausa... Mi so fatto subito un Birrone dopo questa notizia :-) Significa che mi fermero un po a Salta. In Salta angekommen habe ich mir sofort eine Idee gemacht wo ich meine Leiste kontrollieren lassen konnte... Ich bin dann am Donnerstag ...

... since I seemed to have gotten really sick from the hostel and the fact that people can smoke pretty much anywhere in Argentina wasn't helping matters. A team of Isrealis (I call them a team because they travel in large groups) were all smoking in the ...

Salta's a favorite, but we didn't get much time for exploring. Bill and Inga had only one day, then flew out to Iguazu Falls the next, so we spent it going up the tram to the top of Cerro Bernardo.  The city has made a beautiful park on the mountain ...