Internacional Jujuy Hotel San Salvador de Jujuy

... we have no Argentine pesos - only Bolivian pesos. It's Saturday morning at 9 am (one hour time change crossing the border) and no casa de cambiar (change house) are open!!! Uh oh! The driver was going to reluctantly take Bolivian pesos when we realized we had to have money for the bus tickets, etc. Driver takes us to the ATM. Great, we´re back on track!!! <br><br>Oh wait, it only dispenses 100's. He only needs 5 ...

... waiting period. Should be fun. Will let you know how it went. <br><br>Before we left Argentina we had to go for another steak dinner which proved even nicer than <br>all previous ones. 2 LARGE steak dinners, potates and salad, 2 desserts and a bottle of wine cost <br>25 Euro . How could you go wrong. Rip off Ireland or what.<br><br>Knowing us and obviosly due to the pricing of the Vino Blanco we had at least a bottle every <br>night, so we missed out on a lot of ...

... through your bathroom window. The town itself is atypical Argentinian - a central plaza, colonial buildings in various forms of decay, large churches and cathedrals on every corner and every street named after a general or a date in the country´s history. Jujuy is earthier than Salta which, I suppose, is the travel guides way of describing somewhere thats poor. Wanting to get deep down and dirty with the local population, I holed myself up in ...

... a deep valley out of the forested hills taking reddy brown muck with it and spreading it out on the plain below the town. The sound of the river was a constant in the campsite which was shaded by huge trees. When we arrived there was one tent set up. The owners were a couple, Alejandro and Marcela, who made jewellery and stuff and lived in a commune in the mid-west with no electricity. (I won´t call them hippies because they weren´t white ...

... day, but certainly not the hours posted outside the door. If I sound frustrated, it´s really only because I have yet to determine what people do with this five hour hole in their day. I´d like to find out so that I may follow their example and not be the crazy white lady in silly clothes running up and down the street all afternoon banging on locked doors and screaming something about coffee or capitalism or don ...

Our last stop in Argentina. And a short one. The wait in Cordoba bus stop was horrific. Cucuy's closeness to Bolivia is very apparent in the people and prices. It's also the only reason we're here. We met up with Charlotte, another Dutch girl with whom we spent some time in Cordoba and who will be accompanying us for a while. Bolivia tomorrow.

... dorpje straalde een negatieve vibe uit en ondanks onze planning om hier te blijven overnachten namen we na een lunch pauze van humitas (mais prut, heel lekker) en empanadas met geitenkaas de bus terug naar Jujuy. Weg hier! Dr. Rick heeft de diagnose gesteld dat we bergmoe zijn en dus nemen we vanmiddag, na een nachtje tet hebben geslapen in Jujuy, de bus naar het oosten om daar weer een geheel nieuwe en spannende regio te gaan ontdekken. Veel plezier met de fotos en hasta pronto, xxx Laura

... it seems like all of the buildings are hotels or tour agencies. Because of this, it's also very expensive. Getting to Chile from Bolivia/Peru was a bit of a price shock, but San Pedro seemed twice as expensive as Arica and Iquique! Most of the places which had a "menú del dia" were selling it for around 4,000-5,000 pesos ($8-$10), not including drinks. I ended up getting lunch twice at a place that sold only chicken (whole, half, or quarter) and ...

... we got there she paid the taxi and refused when I asked to pay her for our half. She then directed us to our bus where there were about 20-30 elderly people with eye patches over one eye. Introductions were made and they seemed to have taken over looking after us from her. It was then very comical as the bus we were standing around wasn´t our one so, as I´d been given the number of the correct bus, I started leading the others and it ...

... ahhhh. mmmmm. claro..... (nos decia) a ver aguarden un segundito.... CHAN Marcos, era el muchacho que nos interrogó, y al cabo de unos minutos, aparecio diciendo, bueno chicos, el tema es asi, yo me ofrezco a llevarlos a Salta con mi FALCON MODELO 71 y estoy terminando mi turno de trabajo en 15 minutos... Les parece bien???? AHHHHHH SANTO ESPEDITO!!! VAMOS YAAAAAAAAAAAAA JIJIJI A las chapas y con ruido a lata ...