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Salta Slideshow
Salta
Travel Blogs from Salta, Argentina
Costly Cows
This is a top pick! As I mentioned in an earlier post, Argentina's economy has been quite strong for the past three years, with GDP averaging about 9%. Unfortunately, much of this has been driven by overstimulative fiscal and monetary policy and we are starting to see ...
The spectacular trip to Salta and some lazy days
This is a top pick! ... sand dunes more or less sum it up. The 10-hour bus ride from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, across the Andes, to Salta in northern Argentina brought us past all these features AND MORE! There were times, as I looked out the window, that I thought I was ...
England 1 - Portugal 3
This is a top pick! ... though most of us felt that they wouldn´t make it. Due to our current geographical position we were also pretty gutted that Argentina were booted out yesterday also. Wayne and I have been following the games religously and yesterday we went in search of ...
Santo Cristo del Milagro
This is a top pick! ... in gratitude. It has grown from a small festival to one of the largest and possibly the most spiritualy devoted festivals in Argentina. Every year thousands of people make the two week pilgrimage to the city of Salta by walking along old dirt roads ...
Sport, Sandwiches, Sun and Shopping
This is a top pick! ... my birdseye view (and at 170cm I only ever have a birdseye view in South America) Things I Learned * They don´t like crusts in Argentina * Rugby isn´t so terrible after all * My Spanish isn´t cut out for Argentina, I need to "sh" it up ...
Back to Argentina - the city of Salta
... their lives in that way. Back to the hostel in the evening for our first and possible best bbq (known as Asado here in Argentina) yet. Salads, roasted vegetable, bread, wine and a range of meat from the bbq – very tasty. The bbq brings ...
The Biggest Entry Ever!
This is a top pick! ... and Bolivian sides of Lake Titicaca, La Paz, Sucre and the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, and then crossed into Argentina, where I spent my 30th birthday last Friday in Salta. Phew! So I've got a few stories to tell! In Cusco, I went on a trip around ...
The Bored and The Border
This is a top pick! ... and comfy buses. Customs went smoothly, and apart from the hundreds of Bolivians running produce across the border from Argentina, nothing unusual happened. But the change was instant. Suddenly the roads were sealed, the buses were indeed comfortable, ...
Salta
This is a top pick! Salta is a midsized town in northern Argentina, and commonly used as a base for similar desert-exploration activities to what we did and saw in San Pedro de Atacama. Our main reason for coming here was to break up the journey to Mendoza, but of ...
Stuck in Salta
... the streets that have no stop signs in any direction! Yikes!) to Cafayate, a small city south of Salta and along the way encountered gorgeous mountains of colorful rock that made me wish I remembered something... ...
Day 84: November 6, 2007 In Salta
... , with one exception, this would be the first time I've gone into the field with decent aerial coverage since I started working in Argentina. Prior to Google Earth, the fotos were either too expensive or too difficult to find. Unlike the USGS, there is no ...
Crossing into Argentina
... poverty levels??? There is something so very shocking about this. All right... enough of that... J I am now in Salta, Argentina. Salta is a LOVELY city and I am enjoying walking aimlessly up and down the countless blocks that are lined with ...
Wine, Women And Trains
... wine tasting. Most of the wine produced here is made from the Torrontes grape, a variety that only grows in this part of Argentina. We were given a tour around the Etchart vineyard which, bizarrely, is owned by Pernot Ricard in France. A jolly old man ...
North! We want to go North!
... whilst Matt ran up and down the platform to see if any other them were leaving imminently for anywhere useful. Our intended destination was Salta about 14 hours north of San Juan and only a few hours from the Bolivian border. The bus pulled in on ...
Day 21: September 4, 2007 In Salta
... was in it. I gladly showed it off to everyone. They all agreed it was a good idea because plastic bags are blowing all over Argentina. I had decided earlier that I would give the bag to whomever first asked me what it was, so I gave it to Bernardo. I ...
finalement cachi cest pas pour aujourdhui
... donne de fausses infos, il ny a pas de bus auj a 13h30 alors je suis ac mon sac et je nai pas trop envie daller glander ds salta.. je cherche ce que je pourrais fre et je me rappelle de la " caldera" un bled a trente km de salta ou lon peut de baigner... ...
Salta - Back to civilisation....
... :30pm, that is one thing that is going to take a bit of getting used to, eating dinner sooooooo late, apparantly this is the thing in Argentina, wherever you go people only go out at 10:30 for a meal and only go out for drinks at 2am, really wierd, got to ...
Atacama to Argentina
... start looking up more at night time as a result. After just three days in Chile, we ventured into Northern Argentina to a town called Salta. We arrived on the bus around 10pm and promptly were told that Argentina would be playing Nigeria for the ...
Finally in Argentina (after one day in Chile)
... that we saw in South Bolivia (deserts), we decided not to stay there for long, so there we hoped on another bus, this time to Argentina. But don't worry, even though it was just one day in Chile, we'll be back in the country in 2 weeks or so. The ...
Luck
... mode we opted to continue north to Salta. First we had to head to Cordoba which is a major travel hub for the northern parts of Argentina. It was a 20 hour ride... and MAN was it a ride. You see the story begins when Pete and Ashley decide to save 30 ...
BUREACRATIC POSTAL NIGHTMARE
... queues at home for ages and met some jobs worthy individuals but nothing has prepared me for the bureaucratic postal systems in Argentina and Bolivia. Thankfully in Bolivia I was accompanied by our guide but here in Salta it was just the Priest ...
Our friends in the north..
... in Jujuy (pronounced who-who-ey) and the tiny town of Purmamurca before retiring to Salta for our last night in the Argentina. While in Salta we paid a trip to the top of San Bernardo Mountain via a chair life for some fantastic panoramic views of the ...
Day 25!
After our flying visit to Chile we head to Salta Argentina today. Left town around 10 am which begun an 11 hour trip on the bus. To get to Salta we had to head back north towards the Bolivian border, East to the Argentinian border and then south into ...
D'un pays à l'autre.... (2)
... bonnes femmes vêtues de multiples jupes et châles brodés, c'est fini tout ça, place au modernisme. - Nous découvrons à Salta que les argentins « savent vivre », tout au moins selon nos critères français ! Et vous ...
Des bus nommés "soupirs"
En Equateur et au Pérou, il n'y a aucune infrastructure ferroviaire (peut-être pour éviter les grèves ?). Dans ces pays, le moyen de transport roi, c'est le BUS. C'est donc notre moyen de transport, celui qui nous permet d'aller d'une ville à ...
Relaxing in the Mountains
We were ready to do some hiking again when we arrived in Iruya, a small village in the mountains. The scenery surrounding Iruya was amazing. Iruya used to mainly rely on sustenance farming but now many families draw most of their income from tourism. ...
Day 96: November 18, 2007 In Salta
Day 96: November 18, 2007 In Salta The chorus of insects outside made it impossible to sleep in on a Sunday morning. Very sore, I got up and wrote the entries for the past two days while watching the news and an excellent show about applying solar ...
Salta, not more salt, but Dulce the Leche!
... it everywhere, in all shapes, cookies, candies, icecreams... Deliciousness... this typical argentinian caramel-like sweet. Yes I am in Argentina! And what a different world... The people talk funny Spanish, with lots of "sh" sounds, adorable! The city is ...
Day 102: November 24, 2007 Last Saturday in Salta
... translations, I think in all of these languages, and spends several months each year in Europe as a contract translator. In Salta, she teaches English, as one of the few native speakers in the city, and teaches voice at the Catholic University. She was ...