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Taking the scenic route..
... Throat could be found. Turns out, what we actually decided to do (unintentionally) was take the 8km road up to the top rather than the actual footpath. Its probably pretty lucky we like walking. On the plus side, our little adventure did offer spectacular views of the whole valley, and when we did eventually reach the top, we were pretty relieved to realise that we actually only had a fairly short footpath down which to go, crossing a tiny little stream ...
Day 13 - Tilcara - Humahuaca - Iruya
... giving up hope we saw this sign outside a garage where a lady was cooking fresh food. We decided to give it a shot and luckily she promised to cook empanadas for us. It was probably the best and the most freshly made empanadas we had eaten so far for bargain price of $2 including tip. Feeling well fed we trekked back to our hotel where the couple that was running the hotel made fresh coffee and tea for us. We enjoyed their company for sometime while watching ...
Horsing around
... pots that haven't been used in a while, a bit like my sisters kitchen. It was interesting enough but wasn't that big, so a siesta was called for. A quick forage in the supermarket and we were equipped with enough food for a small army, I learned a lot from looking at Brian eating though, so I passed myself and got through it. Its off to Humahuaca in the morning, its only 40 minutes up the road but its another 500 meters closer to the gods so I am off to bed to make some more red blood ...
Canyons, BBQ´s and dodgy musical instruments
... It was so loud that it was almost deafening and you could feel the mountain shake as it went again and again. We quickly decided that completing the trek was now going to be a little difficult so we headed back the way we came. However, by this point the lightning was right over head and unbelievably it has started to rain. Rain in the desert? Only earlier I had joked to Gemma how weird it would be if it started raining as this was one of the driest places ...
White privilege, seven-colour landscape
... be discriminated against because of his indigenous origin - just because he had been helping us.
We changed money quickly and crossed the border for the third time. A few minutes later we sat in the next bus to Humahuaca.
But a few kilometers later already, the bus stopped for another check by the Argentinian border police. The rest of passengers were Bolivians and I was quite shocked when the police ordered everybody but ...
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