Fenicia Hotel San Salvador de Jujuy

... placards. Before we knew it, the road in front of us was being quickly sanctioned off by men rolling huge tyres into the centre of the road. Unable to turn out of the lane - because of Tiago's hated sign system and awful drivers - we were funnelled into a path narrowly missing the wall of tyres, which we now realised were quickly being set on fire. Although obviously quite panicked, Tiago really held it together and we creeped slowly towards the burning wall. As the protesters stopped ...

... turning the car around and heading back. We were trying to reach the Thermal baths before it went dark, and that meant a 2 hour drive to Jujuy. We only had time to make a stop at a ceramics factory on the route back (more Daniellas sake than mine), we did pick up a couple of bits and bobs, a piggy bank and an armadillo wine jug, both made of ceramics. Hope they dont get broken on the flight home!! Reaching the thermal baths, it was a bit of a surprise that there was no ...

... small oblong pools the workers cut into the floor. They do this to harvest the salt, and it releases the water under the surface to create (salt) crystal clear water, which they then scrape into small bundles and turn into pure salt. I can testify, so you dont have to try it, that the water tastes like shi... We visited a tiny little community nearby for lunch, a real how the hell do you survive place. A delicious lunch of soup, lamb empanadas and ...

... himself all the way though. I declined. It seemed our host hadn´t however. He was in great form. It was nine in the morning. Having discovered we were from Ireland he was now shouting random words hoping to hit on some connection. He was concentrating on Claire after he picked up on my expression when he said Beckham?! So he went; on Robin Hood?, Castles?, Beer? We had to put up with the proximity of his boozy coca leaf breath all this ...

Beste lezers! Vanaf de vorige keer dat ik jullie schreef zijn we steeds in redelijk kleine stapjes naar het noorden van Argentinie getrokken. In Mendoza hebben we na een aantal dagen daar te hebben gewined en gedined een auto gehuurd en zijn 2 daagjes de bergen ingetrokken om de hoogste berg buiten het Himalaya gebergte te bezichten, de Aconcagua. Deze was uiteraard bedekt met wolken, zoals alle bergen die we proberen te zien in dit land, maar toch was het gebied nog steeds ...

... night, was wildly disappointed after looking forward to one. Not totally sure what the order would be, but Bolivia is in the top three South American countries for me. Argentina is definitely #1, but I really love Bolivia. Bolivia is awesome because it's almost the opposite of Argentina. It's a totally different kind of adventure. It's just a crazy, wild country (you can buy dynamite for 2 ...

... to Cordillera de la Sal, a small mountain range next to the Andes. We then drove to a place called Valle de la Muerte (Death Valley) where we got out of the car and hiked about half an hour. Really nice desert scenery along the way. Our driver picked us up and we went to Cañon de la Sal where we did another walk over sand dunes and through a small canyon. Finally, we drove to a spot where we could climb a hill and watch the sunset over Valle de ...

... a lot better and the country is (I´ve been told) getting back on it´s feet and the prices will rise more and more to reflect this. It´s a great bargain at the moment. Off to Iguazu tomorrow and this will be a long 3-bus journey through Argentina, but the buses are supposed to be the best in south america and I´m eager to find out what it is like to go my first CAMA (where the seats go back to 180-degrees flat and becomes bed-like) class seat.

... muy buena y de a ratos se cortaba :( (El plan maestro). Ya entrada la noche noche, cenamos muy pero muy rico. Mientras hablabamos de las cosas de la vida, una muchacha cantaba desaforada música regional acompañada de guitarras y bombos. También ofrecieron un show de zapateo pero no le dimos ni bola. Pasada las 12 de la noche, el noni noni pintaba y el vino se hacia sentir. Fue ahí que tomamos el ascensor que nos llevó derecho a la cucha para DORMIR!

... está promocionado como un hotel, en realidad es un sitio en el que si uno quiere hacer noche hay que quedarse en el Hotel pero para pasar el día se puede disfrutar de las termas que están enclavadas en un paisaje soñado y y permite recuperarse de tan largo viaje y a la vez adaptarse un poco a la altura. Desde San ...