Corre Caminos Hostel Salta

Be warned, this one´s a biggie. Like, real big. You might need to do it in shifts. . . . Probably our worst day of travel so far began with a wake-up call at 2am. I had gone to sleep for 3 hours, Ray had stayed up. As expected, Tony, our host, was not there at 2:30 to help us with all our luggage when we left to walk to the bus station, as he said he would. He was a bit insincere I feel. The kind of guy who always greeted you with a huge smile, a "como estas?" and a pat on the back and made a...

whew, 21 hour bus ride from BA to Salta was not really as bad as it sounds. They showed 4 movies (Doubt (la duda), Twillight, some steven seagal movie that i slept through*, some long-form Ricky Martin video that was serously over an hour and had all kinds of differnt characters singing and really high prouduction values, then the Wrestler this morning. I hadn´t seen any of these so although I had a hard time hearing it, I weas able to practice reading spanish while following. They also serve...

As usual after a night bus, we were absolutely knackered on the morning we reached Salta, so after a short taxi ride to the hostel, we went straight to bed for a few hours. We eventually made it out of bed in the afternoon and made our way to see what Salta had to offer. Like every other Argentinean town we´d been to, Salta is built around a central square with obligatory statue of San Martin, Cathedral, and government buildings. This was about as far as we got on our first day, as all the Ch...

Salta is a small city of half a million. It actually used to be apart of Bolivia and this is obvious in the people that live there. We only spent a day and half here and most importantly had a delicious farwell steak. We bumped into some people we met in Brazil and it was nice to catch up. Although we had intentions of sight seeing the next day, it was so dam hot and out hostel had a swimming pool so we chose the latter. That night we had a big BBQ in the hostel and headed out with some peopl...

Well, last night I went out for a few drinks with Daniel, Sina, Juan (Dan & Sina´s friend from Salta) & Greg. It was interesting to meet a local, he´s a cool guy, doing his masters thesis on world economic theory or something. The next morning, myself, Greg & Maya went on a full day tour of the Andean region around northern Salta. The scenery was amazing, had never seen anything like it, and we saw many totally different landscapes, like a desert around 3000m which connects to the...

So as I was saying the wheels on the bus go round and round and they sure did for 20 or so hours!! We caught the bus from Mendoza at 8:30pm and joined the other hundreds of locals at the bus station to board our big blue bus Andesmar. We had been told that the buses here, are pretty top quality better than some airlines and its how a majority of the locals travel as it is quite cheap. There are different classes of bus tickets you can get. There is the bus with the chickens and the stinky men...

Hello all, after uyuni we went to the border with argentina, spent there the night and crossed. another long bus journey down to mendoza, a place famous in argentina for its wines. we stayed there for about 4 days. in mendoza we mainly relaxed , kasia went to a wine tasting and came back with a lovely bottle of wine. and on our last day there we ran into a group of guys from chile. they were a good laugh so we had them join of for a picnic in the huge san martin park. it was a lovely day with...

Did you know that the romans used to pay for things with salt. And supposedly (the tour guide says) thats where we got the term sala-ry. Some latin root or something, who knows. But I spent 22 hours on a bus to get up to the salt flats, so by god let me dream! So heres the scoop. #1 cardinal rule when traveling. If you expect to go on an expedition, book it the day before because most expeditions leave at 7am and get back in the late afternoon. I, on the other hand, got in at 8am and decided ...