Hotel Colonial Salta

... summer in the 80’s. Anyway, stunning. And we once again got lucky with weather, with torrential rains starting up the day after we finished with the falls, allowing us to hang out in relaxed little Puerto Canoas hotel reading and making use of the wi-fi without feeling guilty for not doing anything (just for the record – Laynni steadfastly disagrees that this is ever a problem). All in all, a very successful stay, discounting of course the family of giant ...

... Although Cachi was very nice once we eventually got there my 2 highlights of the day came on the way there. The first was the visit to parque Nacional Los Cardones where around 30,000 cordones (a type of cactus) can be seen in a single valley. Some of them were 9m tall and they had a strange variety of protrusions from them. the other highlight was finding 2 wild donkeys (well they seem to hang about in the parking lot of one of the viewpoints but that's ...

... and relaxed watching Father Ted on the dvd player-almost finished all the episdoes now but they are great to have and watch!! <br>We booked a hostel room Fri night even though we left in at 11.30 to get a taxi down to bus station- we had kept just enough money to pay for taxi so we were delighted with that(literally down to the penny or peso as they say here). We got to the station and come half 12 our bus came. We were loading our bags and realised we kept no change ...

... We were just pottering around the main square and bumped into a girl we had shared a taxi with to the bus station from Cordoba to Salta, I had read about the mummified Inca children so we went to find the museum, it cost 30 pesos to enter the museum, if you have a student card or you are a local you can get in for 10 pesos, pretty rich huh! Anyways that girl had a student card but didn&#8217;t have it on her, and as we were haggling with the girl at the front desk a lady came out who was ...

... morning we had to be up extra early as the bus for Cafayte left at 7:00 am. It was a 3 hour bus ride and I slept pretty much the entire way. When we got there we were greeted by a man who wanted to take us to a hostel, and being tired and fresh off the bus we decided to go with little resistance. We should have known that if he was waiting to take people there (on foot) from the bus station, that it was probably because you wouldn´t go there otherwise...... No, it ...

... Or when Tom was dragged off by one of the boys as he hadn't yet found a girl and when I asked where he had gone I was told quite frankly by one of the group that "We take him to the *****s!" again I could **********tain myself when Tom came back looking very shocked. We had a great time in Cairo and stayed until the end of the night which once again led to a 5:30am taxi ride and crawling into bed at 7am. A Birthday to remember, FELIZ CUMPLANOS!!

... llamas, vicuñas and donkeys made it enjoyable. San Antonio is a poor and un-interesting village, but we had to have lunch and a pit stop. In the afternoon we drove along the Tren de las Nubes route back to Salta. Once in Salta we went for dinner to http://www.viejaestacion-salta.com.ar in the trendy area of Balcarcel. Good and inexpensive food, and the later folk show was supposed to be good, but we were to tired.

... y installons avant de partir à la découverte de la ville. Salta est une agglomération relativement importante mais nettement plus petite que la capitale argentine. On sent la différence avec l'air qu'on y respire, la pollution, quoique présente, est nettement moins aggressive pour les poumons. Il y fait un peu plus frais à cause de l'altitude (env. 1100 m.) Nous nous baladons dans le centre-ville et prenons quelques photos.

... only alone (usualy you cut them in 2 and it s still difficult to finish them... Of course I took also a bottle of Malbec (for the one who follow this blog, you must understand by now what I really like...) Well a very good evening and as it was Friday night some live music near by the train station (the living quarter of Salta) The next day I had a bus at 5h30 AM...