Hotel Cerros de San Lorenzo Salta

... was getting close to sunset we couldn't see the colours in the painted hill properly (the rock goes from red to brown, green then yellow).<br><br>The 2nd trip, to Cachi, was thankfully a lot shorter (only about 9 hours) but the roads were just as crazy and I could have gone without knowing that a bus driver fell asleep on one of the really winding bits and drove off the edge! Fortunately our driver remained wide awake, even if he did pretend not to once or ...

... easy, rang home when we could find an internet shop open and then we stumbled across... a casino. Happy days. From the outside it looked okish but once we got in inside we were shocked-it was packed full of locals and was a fairly big size casino so we did our best not to loose too much!! <br>We also went on a pedlo rid of a lake in the city which was about as exciting as it got.<br>Rest of Thursday and all of following day we just took it easy, looked up the ...

... the boys here go wild for the girls. But as always they are friendly people and love to talk. They particularly love to practise their English which is always good for a laugh and I have no doubt they get a great deal of amusement from our Spanish. In their broken english we were regularly getting comments like "j-your friend Felicity eeis sooo Be-u-ti-ful. I want to F**K her!!" which for me was all too much and I could barely contain my ...

... in Cafayate, la 2 Viña (crame), unde am degustat diverse soiuri (Torontes este un vin specific zonei), am luat pranzul si ne-am invartit putin prin magazine. Am mancat un super Bife de Chorizo - asta este un fel de antricot de vita, dar taaare bun. La intoarcere, Santiago s-a tinut de cuvant. Ne-a dus intr-un canion departe de drumul national, unde am vazut dealul cu 16 culori, nu 7, ca ieri. Este un peisaj absolut ...

... de un leu, plina. Ghidul ne explica in continuare ca asta nu e drog, este legal si e bun pentru altitudine, in timp ce toata populatia se hilizea la greu. Urma sa ne drogam, doar, nu? Prima oprire a fost la Purmamarca, un satuc in munti, unde este Dealul cu 7 culori. O sa vedeti in poze, este incredibil. Are o gramada de nuante, de la minereurile de argint, cupru, fier si ce se mai gaseste pe aici. Dupa ce am plecat din Purmamarca, am primit si ...

... to hitch a ride and they dropped us off in front of a guesthouse in the heart of the small town. We found the only restaurant open in town, which was a cheap chicken resto run by a Chinese family that served up half a chiken, a massive plate of rice and a massive plate of fries for each of us for 30Bs (USD4). How on earth a Chinese family ended up in Tupiza in southern Bolivia, I have no idea. After a long day of travel and with full stomachs, we eagerly hit the sack.

... much more like a game of 20 questions, with the usual how old, where from, job, siblings, parents, single/married, travelling along, how long, etc etc.. however i managed to understand everything that was being asked of me and provide adequate answers in spanish, achievement! Ok, so the town of Salta itself is nothing too spectacular, with plenty of old buildings and churches to see, and not really a whole lot else. I ws much more interested in the ...

... placid frozen face of the 15-year old ´maiden´. Similar to their opinion that the Jesuits ´civilised´the indigenous black population, they appear to have taken an apologetic tone concerning these poor unfortunates, children selected for their great beauty and perfection, taken up the hill, given ceremonial wine to drink before being left there, quite simply, to die. In Salta the explanantion is that they weren´t sacrificed, or killed, they were ...

... sights I have ever seen. The girl was about 7 and literally looked as if she could get up and walk any second, she was completely preserved (even the little plats in her hair) she had perfect skin and u could even see her fingernails. They say that it is the best preserved mummy in the world and hundreds of years old from the Inca period! had a really nice wander for the rest ...