Gran Hotel Panorama San Salvador de Jujuy

... less cacti and more green vegetation in general. <br><br>They gave out tickets to breakfast and went to a different car for bread &amp; coffee. Dawdling looking out the window when the train pulled into Villazon, Bolivia. But not feeling too bad for 10 hours on the train.<br><br>The other times I crossed borders, I was on a bus and was instructed what to do and when. I met 2 Israeli girls at breakfast headed to Salta ...

... tenuously-given names - like The Frog, The Ampitheatre, The Devil's Throat etc. They were truly amazing and such vivid colours.<br><br>As sunset drew closer we headed back to our old hostel in Salta, where we were greeted by the cheeky grin of little Enzo who came out to help us unpack the car. After hooking us up with an en-suite fit room for 40pesos each, he ordered us an epic pizza with egg, meat, cheese and thousand island dressing which was awesome after our long drive. <br><br ...

The Lonely Planet tells me that as you move up closer to Bolivia, San Salvador de Jujuy (pronounced Hu-Huy) is where you start to see and feel the proximity. You aint kidding buster!. Arriving in a bus terminal that would disgrace an early 20th century South American Third World Country, I was plunged into a cacophony of colours, noises, sights and smells. The throngs of people sitting on sacks, peddling strange looking foods and generally sitting ...

Cloudy forests Parque Nacional Calilegua After Cafayate we started to make our way towards Calilegua national park. A preserved area of yungas cloud forest, 1 million hectares, that rises above the clouds into the andes. The area we were in was at around 2,600 meters and is said to be home to 40% of the bird species in Argentina, as well as many mammals, an of course insects. There wasn´t much info on getting there but we gradually made it ...

... and it slowly dawned on us that this wasn´t just siesta. Some as-yet-to-be-named provincial holiday caused even churches and supermarkets to be closed on our only day of sightseeing in Jujuy. However, we made the best of it as usual, and managed to see the history museum, the outside of all the cathedrals, the place where the municipal market would be if it was open, the place where the river would be if ...

Jujuy was my last stop in Argentina, at least for a while. I am definitely going back there one day. Jujuy was a really cool city. It is at the same time kinda scruffy but really nice. I ate some llama while I was there. It was really good, tasted kinda like pork.

... toeristisch dorp waar de lokale bevolking op nogal opdringerige wijze in Bolivia geproduceerde lama wollen zooi probeerde te verkopen. We hadden allebei een negatief gevoel over deze regio en we voelden geen goede vibe. De volgende ochtend namen we snel een foto van de gekleurde (maar slecht belichte) Cerro de los 7 colores. Met onze schone maar nu allemaal blauwe was (!) vertrokken we richting Humahuaca. We passeerden een deel van de quebrada wat een Unesco erfgoed is. Ook ...

... from my hostel in Iquique. We finally settled on one (not great, but cheap) and ended up sharing a dorm room there. Buses to Argentina from San Pedro only run three times a week, so I bought a ticket for the next bus, on Friday (meaning I had to stay in San Pedro for 3 days). San Pedro (altitude 2,440 meters) has become a really popular tourist town over the last several years. I think every local who lives there works in the tourism industry ...

After two bus journeys and baggage checks at the border, we entered Argentina and immediately noticed the difference. When booking the tickets from La Quiaca (the town just over the border in Argentina) to Salta a woman was intent on helping us tourists. Due to our bad Spanish, we didn´t understand that a protest for the next 48hours meant that the busses were leaving just outside the town. So, she helped us to get a taxi up to the picket and ...

... llegar en tiempo y forma al aeropuerto no daban... Con Eugenia jodiamos y deciamos, PIDAMOSLE A SAN ESPEDITO Q SUCEDA UN MILAGRO, y saben que? EL MILAGRO APARECIO. Ahh, claro que no fue porque el remis llegó, sino porque un atento empleado del hotel nos comenzó a interrogar. - Chicos a que hora tienen el vuelo? . A las 7 de la tarde, en 2 hs y media - Y cuantos km. hay de aca a Salta? . yyyy, 130 mas o menos ...