Alejandro I Salta

... shock to his nuts&#8230;.and he screamed, just like they always did on the show. Consider it confirmed.<br><br>And time moves slowly on and on&#8230;.meaning we took a 22 hour bus ride from Salta to Puerto Iguazu, set in a jungly little nook in Northeastern Argentina near the borders of Brazil and Paraguay. Here the big attraction is Iguazu Falls, considered by many to be the most beautiful falls in the world (larger than Victoria Falls, prettier than Niagara Falls, and ...

... with only 35 residents (not including the mummy that is amazingly well preserved in the museum!) we stopped for lunch in San Augustine de Los Cobres at the only restaurant in town - it probably won't surprise you to learn that I turned down the chance to try llama and went for chicken and mash (apparently the llama tasted like chicken too though!). The main feature of the day were the salt flats - I've never seen anything like it. They were caused by salt ...

... 10 pesos up and down or you can walk over 1000 steps! We pottered around there, there was lovely views over the city which is surprisingly big, way bigger than you would think from ground level.<br>To be honest the cable car was a bit rickety, managable so I was really quiet pleased that we were walking down the steps rather than going back on the cable car.<br><br>When we had arrived at the hostel, there was 3 German guys we met in Mendoza sitting there, we had also seen them walking ...

... The gesture was greatly appreciated and the cake was lovely. (Thanks again guys)<br><br><br><br>The next step of the evening was to head to Balcarce where all the bars are in Salta and decide where we wanted to go, it was already 1am by this point and although the bars shut late and clubs open even later we decided we should get a move on - we were running late and the night had started without us.. The obvious choice for a starting bar was ...

... de los Colorados, a 1 hour hike behind the Cerro with amazing colors and scenery. We stayed at www.postadepurmamarca.com.ar simple but very nice hotel just underneath the Cerro. Big rooms and bathroom, clean, no TV, friendly staff and adequate breakfast. (IMHO better than Los Colorados, which is similar but further away). For dinner we went to Posta de Purmamarca (same name but different from the hotel ...

Mirjam et moi arrivons à Salta en début d'après-midi après 18 heures de car. Le voyage s'est bien passé et nous ne sommes pas trop fatigués par le voyage. Il faut savoir que les voyages en car en Argentine n'ont rien à voir avec ceux qu'on subit en Europe. En effet, les cars Argentins possèdent différentes classes. Ainsi, on peut réserver une place dans un car "cama" où le siège s'abaisse à l'horizontal pour faire un lit ...

After the trip from Cordoba, I was not very sharp and even more after one other morning trying to pay my tax (one more time unsuccessfully....) I had only a short day in front of me and not so much to do as all the interesting thing where done 2 weeks ago with my mother. I decided to take it easy and to go to the top of the hill over Salta: there is a cable car to go ...