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Chilecito Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chilecito, Argentina
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A lot of non-very-productive time
... to sleep early. The next day we woke up early and went to the first station of the old cableway which connected Chilecito with Famatina Mountain (from where gold is taken). The cableway isn’t working anymore but the structure persists as a local ...
Wine Country #1 - Charming Chilecito
... ;meals’, both consisting of a cheese and ham roll plus a cheese and ham sandwich (varied!) - and a ’collectivo’ to Chilecito itself, it felt like we had stepped back in time - and onto a different planet from B.A! We didn’t have ...
First stop at Chilecito
... way from Patquía to Chilecito the mountains were red with weird shapes and on the horizon high green mountains. When I arrived in Chilecito, I started to walk looking for somewhere to sleep. I found a hostel (yes!! A hostel, at last!!!). Its name was ...
Talampaya - beauty in the middle of nowhere
... Nacional Talampaya and the La Rioja region. .............................. Being interviewed for local TV about experience of travelling in Argentina Taking the 4 hour local bus ride to a tiny village called Pagancillo on the advice of a very ...
Detour to the middle of nowhere
... mineral mines in the nearby mountains, which housed the world's longest cable car. So I just spent the next day in Chilecito, wandering around town, sampled some local wine and bought some incredible olives, marinated in olive oil and fresh oregano, the ...
Red deserts and cacti.
... round above huge precipices past hillsides covered in huge cacti. Emerging at the bottom of the hill we were soon in Chilecito. Chilecito was another 'sleepy’ town described as wild west by the Lonely Planet people. We had started to suspect ...
chilecito
... got a place in the hospedaje of the local catedral, and that could be really funny, if i stayed in there. now im in chilecito. i knew they have hostel, because they are in the hostel international list, and im a member in it, so tonight ill pay 20 for ...
Update 2
After Arequipa the roads improved considerably as did the border crossing into Peru. Finally hit the Pacific at Arica...what a welcome sight although not the blue of our side of the Pacific. There is a lot of volcanic action in this area of northern ...
Cuesta Miranda
The friendly family of the camp ground invited us for a breakfast - tasty fresh & sweet empanadas. The place was meanwhile crowded and we were told, that there would be a big "fiesta" today. Big question: Stay or leave ? We decided to leave and got ...
And you said 2km more of climbing???
... English speaking Argentinean chatted with me for a while. One guy mentioned i had only 2km more of uphill then all downhill tot Chilecito. Wow, sounds perfect. I was relieved to know as my map was not so detailed in this area. Two kilometres of uphill? ...
Chilecito
Al pie del Macizo de Famatina se encuentra "Chilecito", que es la segunda ciudad en importancia de La Rioja. El lugar atesora varios edificios históricos y un importante museo que muestra gran cantidad de piezas y objetos del pasado del sitio. ...
La Cuesta de Miranda
Este camino de montaña que nos lleva a Chilecito es de una belleza comparable al Valle de la Luna o a Talampaya. un paisaje unico !!!!! Chilecito es la segunda ciudad de la La Rioja, un lugar muy alegre y con muchisima vida. Imperdible: el rio y su ...
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