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Tilcara Slideshow
Tilcara
Travel Blogs from Tilcara, Argentina
Tintilating Tilcara
Nestled in amongst the Quebrada de Humahuaca valley, arriving in Tilcara felt like landing something in between a cowboys and indians filmset and a classic South American colonial township, where the higher presence of indigenous Quechuan´s was ...
Tilcara to La Quiaca, bye bye Argentina
We left Salta for Tilcara in northern argentina...getting one step closer to Bolivia. Had arranged to meet Ryan, one of our fellow travellers, there and then head on to Bolivia together. Arrived in pretty late a night and the place seemed completely ...
Where you wait for a friend
... on the main square. It is good to live the peaceful life in the quebrada. But I also waited Christian whom I met four months ago in Brazil. We followed each one a different path but finally met again in Argentina. It was good to meet again a friend. ...
The Colourful Northwest
The last stop I took in this voyage through Argentina was in the pictoresque Andean village of Tilcara. In the middle of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, it sat surrounded in colourful hillsides. It was a very traditional village and a very friendly one too, ...
crossing into Argentina
... of them. So we were the last people called! It was ridiculous how long we waited! The first stop in Argentina was Tilcara. This is one of a few small, picturesque towns in the North. They all have these rainbow colored mountians ...
Tilcara - Quebrada de Humahuaca
... de Humahuaca. Ich bin hier auf 2.460m. Die Quebrada ist eine beeindruckende Schlucht, durch die man auf der Ruta 9 gelangt. In Tilcara gibt es eine alte Inkafestung "El Pucarà de Tilcara". Ein Gefuehl von Erhabenheit geht von den Grundmauern aus, so in ...
Tilcara
... après 2h d'attente quand même! A Quiaca (ville frontière côté Argentin donc) nous reprenons un bus vers Tilcara. La destination d'origine était Purmamarca,quelques kilomètres plus loin, mais n'étant pas encore complètement remis de l'épisode ...
El Norte
On from Cafayate to the far north of Argentina, to the towns of Purmamarca and Tilcara. Both are north of Jujuy, which I mention because it is a fun city to say (pronounced hoo-hooey). Jujuy is the capital of Jujuy Province, the poorest part of ...
Pre-Columbian City (Reconstructed)
Arrived back in Tilcara and despite everywhere being full of Argentinian student backpackers, found a bed in a brand new hotel/ hostel which was a boutique hotel with a dorm. All very stylish, modern and comfortable. Walked up to the pre-columbian city ...
Rest in a known place before resuming the journey
After a very long journey (36 hours), I stopped in Tílcara. It was good to rest a bit in a place I know, a place I like. Here everything is quite and people are nice. I got back something I forget here two months ago and now I am ready to resume my trip ...
Leaving cheap in the quebrada
On the road to Tílcara, you can appreciate the very nice "paleta del artista" which reveals many color layers as in Purmamarca. But the sandstorm was geting stronger preventing from having a very good view. Once I arrived in Tílcara, the best thing to ...
The Quebrada de Humuaca to Tilcara
... BA derby always does here. In the end we tore ourselves away from Artesania wonderland and headed up the valley. The next stop Tilcara is famous for its local pre-Incan ruins of Pucara, but aside from that it’s a pretty authentic Andean adobe ...
It´s all about the wine
... almost got attacked by two dogs when I accidentally wandered up a one way street. Clearly not all dogs in Argentina want to be my friend. The countryside around Tilcara has more coloured rocks a bit like Cafayate and we did a hike through it to some ...
Cactus and Altitude Adjustment
The last 3 days we've been in the very north of Argentina in a small town called Tilcara. It's nestled in a huge valley surrounded by bare mountains of red, purple and yellow rock, punctuated by tall green cacti. Most of the houses are of adobe brick ...
De Salta a Tilcara - km 2800
... . La parando sou muito bem recebido, e Cesar me dá dicas sobre a travessia , mas com uma condicao - que eu conhecesse Tilcara, um ´mini- Macchu Picchu´ . E perto e decido ir. Tilcara é uma cidade que me lembrou muito Arraial da Ajuda há 20 anos ...
Purmamarca
Today we moved rooms after the freezing cold night we've just had and we now have 5 blankets and quilts on our bed, so hopefully we’ll be warmer tonight. After breakfast we caught the local bus to Purmamarca which cost only 4 AR pesos (60p) each, ...
leaving Salta....heading for Tilcara....eventually
We enquired at the bus station about a bus to Tilcara. We thought one was at 10.30am and the next was 12.30am. We weren't organized enough and we were still trying to work out if we should try to go into Chile to San Pedro, then we heard that the ...
Humahuaca
... to Humahuaca which cost us 9 AR$ (£1.35) each, each way. This was another place that we had thought of staying before deciding on Tilcara. We caught the bus which got us into the town about 11.30am. The clock here is famous. When it strikes 12 a ...
Salta & Tilcara: on the road to Bolivia
De busrit van Chili naar Argentina is ontzettend mooi.Voor het grootste gedeelte boven de 4000m met onderweg prachtige rotsformaties, zoutvlakten en meren. Salta is een hele leuke koloniale stad en heeft al aardig wat kenmerken van Bolivia, bijvoorbeeld ...
Buenos Aires v drugo in divji (severo)zahod
Iz Patagonije sva priletela nazaj v Buenos Aires (skoraj vsi notranji leti gredo prek prestolnice) in se nastanila kar v enem hotelu ob letališču, saj sva mislila, da imava naslednji dan zgodaj zjutraj let v Salto. Večer sva hotela ...
The Long Road from Jujuy to Tilcara
... late for us, but we killed a little time looking for some souvenires and going to the bank. (All of the banks in Northern Argentina have long lines). When it was finally 8:30 we went to dinner. The place we went was very nice. Most of us ...
camping fun
we set up camp next to a little kids birthday party, potato sack races, tug of war...a very lopsided boys against girls which makes sarah want to join in and give the girls a hand, multi-colored balloons hang against a desert mountain backdrop. our ...
Last stop in Argentina
... out to find a mercado to buy some ingredients for dinner and enjoying being a little cold after months of heat.We walked to the bus station the next morning for our 9.15 bus north to La Quicha, a little town just south of the Argentina/Bolivia border. ...
Road trip day 1
Before we set off we learned the first rule of driving in Argentina: at intersections in the city you have the right of way if the other car is on your left. BUT the car hire lady said: if the other car is bigger than you, you let it go first, always! The ...
The steak disappointment
... and to everyone's surprise (even ourselves) we returned with a couple of tents and a camping location! The reason we came to Argentina was to taste those fabulous steaks we'd all heard about and made our mouths water... So as soon as we set up our tents, ...
Oct 10, 2009
Szines Andok, 2500 meter
... Ralf, a stuttgarti nemet szinten Tilcaraba tartott. Innentol par napot egyutt utaztunk, aminek sok elonye volt a nemettanulason kivul is. Tilcara egy 2500 folotti falu, szeles, napos, az utcakbol a hegyeket lehet latni, es a kozelben talalhato a Garganta ...
... stad van de 'honden'!
.... als het donker wordt (rond 20u30) beginnen de straathonden hier allemaal hun lied te blaffen en dat duurt tot lang na middernacht! Voor de rest is dit een rustig stadje op 2800m in de Andes met een lange, oude historie, een site van 1000 voor ...
Nothing really special about this place...
... , y que pasaramos una noche en cada uno de ellos. Sin embargo, ya que para ir a Purmamarca habia que pasar por Tilcara, y ibamos cargados como mulas, decidimos quedarnos a dormir en Tilcara y de alli hacer una excursion de un dia hasta Purmamarca y al dia ...