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Back roads and big cacti
... we recovered it quickly and were soon on our way.
Our first destination was a place called San Antonio de los Cobres, via route 51. If you look on Google maps, it is north-west of Salta, the satellite view shows how mountainous the area was. The road followed a river as it wound its way through the valley and the scenery was good. Apart from the mountains, we saw some huge cacti which Donna was particularly amazed by.
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Train to the clouds
... villages on the side along with a little bit of wildlife like donkey's goats, sheep, llamas and a few horses. There are cactus' that are up to 45 feet tall, so that pretty much is about as big as my penis. The train only stops two times. It stops once at the top and once at San Antonio de los Cobres, which is the highest city in Argentina. It's at 3700 meters. It is not as high ...
On y voit que du blanc
... but de la descente avec San Antonio de los Cobres a 3775m ou en rencontre le 'train des nuages' et les couleurs magnifiques de la vallée qui revient sur Salta.
From Purnamarca, I go and check Tilcara, and then go up to the Grandes Salinas. Again, colorful landscapes on that so sinuous road. On the salar, only white. ...
Train Beyond the Clouds to Viaduct La Polvorilla
Another of Annie's investigations had found the "Tren a las Nubes" which is a mostly touristy train that takes 16 hours to go there and back but, wow, what a there and back it is!
Before I can talk about the trip though there is much to tell about the preparation; this is one of those trains that, no matter the actual situation, the train company says the train is full. Also, based on our last train experience in Cordoba where, upon seeing my cane, they allowed us ...
Valleys and Trains
Shared a hire car with Kath and Charly and we headed up into one of the mountain valleys (Quebrada del Toro) near Salta to make a loop, cross the Altiplano and come down the bottom part of another valley back to Salta. It was definitely the rainy season judging by the thunderstorm and flooded streets as we left town, initially the drive was through lush tobacco plantations but then as we started to climb into the valley it ...
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