Howard Johnson Plaza Jujuy San Salvador de Jujuy

... Self Love, you know you did the right thing.<br><br>Today I found out that my friend Vera´s brother died in a bicycle accident in San Diego (please send some love her way), but I also found out that my mom´s last result from a brain scan was negative. She is healthy and celebrating tonight!<br><br>Life is simply to short to be in a constant state of fear. Love is where it is.....<br>Love n Peace from Salta la linda<br>

... and we decided to team up. We had all heard it was cheaper to cross into La Quiaca, Argentina and buy a bus ticket there. Took a cab to the border crossing and after a short wait at customs - Adios Bolivia! But, since I now posess a 5 year visa - maybe I´ll be back =) <br><br>Walked the 100 yards or so to the Argentina entry crossing - no problemo, doing fine so far. Taxis are waiting at the border and we quickly ...

... next day we ran a few errands in town before heading to a restaurant, Sarita, which we had enjoyed earlier in the week. It was a case of deja vu as well because for the third time that week we ate at the same time as a random old woman who we had seen eating with different families in different places across the week. Very weird. <br><br>We grabbed our stuff from the hostel and got a taxi to the bus station for our next adventure, a 24hour bus journey and the Iguassu Falls and Brazil!<br>

Unfortunately I have another pretty dull entry for you here. In Salta I was only two days away from meeting my best friends in Buenos Aires and I was trying to conserve both my health and my money. I arrived into the bus station after a long but scenic bus journey. The trip from San Pedro was made that much longer by a two hour layover at Argentinian customs, during which all our bags were subjected to sniffer dogs as well as x-rays. Then our bus was x-rayed. What ...

... not go down the toilet either..thats what the bin is for..); I have seen 3 cats in Argentina: its a dogs world, and they wander everywhere; PDA is on a level never seen in Cuba St; there are no gingas (in fact, very little diversity at all, so gringos stand out); there are two types of car in argentina: the modern flash ones of recent years, and old beat up dodge and ford pickups, ladas and ford falcons that belong decades ...

... chewing coca leaves looked nothing like the Argentinians I had seen before. This was a race that fitted squarely in the dodgy cigarette, stove pipe hat wearing less than four teeth to rub together variety. I have been to towns and cities nestled into the Andes before, but someone took Jujuy and threw it at the mountain range when they founded this place. The whole place is surrounded, and you can see the snow capped peaks as you shower in the ...

... buses and roads of decreasing quality until a guy in Libertador General San Martin, a smelly sugarcane processing town, brought us there in his van. This was to be the wildest place we´d been so far and the road in was enough to make us wonder if we were ready for it. Our driver asked if we´d enough food, water and insect repellent and said he´d come back for us in three days. The campsite was lovely, it was set up above the river which ...

... shared a few bottles of Argentina wine...enjoying this alot. He had met up with a couple of French girls who were two days out of Paris..think we might have scared them with our stories of robbery and theft as they were heading to Bolivia soon, ooops, but they really should be warned. Had a lovely lunch at joaqiun´s house with his brother and mum and sat in their courtyard with bottle of red and chatted the afternoon away. The night Loren left for BA (will ...

... wasn´t the end of dry season, and various other scintillating sights. In this part of Argentina, the midday is quite warm, and siesta is strictly observed. All businesses with few exceptions (some cafes, some chain supermarkets, some bakeries) close between noon and 1pm and may or may not reopen at 5 or 6 pm depending on the mood of the proprietor, the alignment of planets, or the I ching pattern they threw ...

... kilka, niestety wiekszosc jest zamknieta w niedziele. Zbieramy informacje od dwoch firm odnosnie kosztow wynajecia. Postanawiamy sprawdzic jeszcze na necie. Wracamy do hostelu, jemy kolacje a poniej w ramach relaksu i dla zabicia czasu gram z Markiem w ping-ponga. Poznym wieczorem zamawiamy samochod przez internet, czekamy na potwierdzenie, niestety nie przychodzi. Postanawiamy sprawdzic rano i idziemy do lozek.