Jujuy Palace Hotel San Salvador de Jujuy

... waiting period. Should be fun. Will let you know how it went.

Before we left Argentina we had to go for another steak dinner which proved even nicer than
all previous ones. 2 LARGE steak dinners, potates and salad, 2 desserts and a bottle of wine cost
25 Euro . How could you go wrong. Rip off Ireland or what.

Knowing us and obviosly due to the pricing of the Vino Blanco we had at least a bottle every
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 ...

<By Emma> Nous nous sommes arretes a Jujuy (se prononce coucouille dans le coin) pour aller faire trempete dans les eaux thermales. Apres 45 min de bus, nous sommes arrives a Termas de Reyes, par contre nous avons renonce aux bains qui n'avaient rien d'exceptionnel. On s'offrira un WE a Budapest quand nous aurons de nouveau des sous. Afin de ce dire que nous n'etions pas venus pour rien nous avons pris un petit apero. On se serait cru en ...

... mochten we ook een glas van hun Prestige wijn drinken, dat was wel gaaf want die bestel je niet zomaar in een restaurant met een studentenbudget:) Na een overnachting in Mendoza moesten wij helaas deze sfeervolle wijn stad verlaten en de bus voerde ons naar San Juan. Hoewel de reisgids ons waarschuwde dat er niet veel te beleven zou zijn, hebben we ons toch prima vermaakt. De stad telde veel bomen, parkjes en pleintjes en straalde na de siesta (die verplicht is, de hele stad ...

Not sure where I left you ... Tucaman? Cafayet? Not Salta so I will start there. It is a big, sprawling, fume ridden city with far too many people for my personal comfort, however in the centre there is the typical peaceful square, with comforting shade from high trees, grassy areas, and plenty of places to sit while the world passes by. There is also a large and interesting museum, mostly in Spanish, but it was possible to ...

... beer) at the bar. The next day, I bought bread and bananas and was left with just 10 pesos (2 cents), so it pretty much worked out perfectly. Speaking of pisco sours, this is an interesting drink because Peruvians and Chileans have a big rivalry about it. Both think that they have the best pisco and that they invented the pisco sour. Pisco is a white grape brandy -- Peruvians make their pisco sours with pisco, lemon juice, syrup, bitters and egg ...

... to the bus station with an aussie girl. She was on her way to Buenos Aires for some serious shopping before heading home to Melbourne. I took a bus to Jujuy, just an hour or two away, and got there in the end of afternoon. Walking around the town gave me really the contrast between these new faces, more indian, and still the argentine standards. Lots of students, lots of people in the streets ...

... it didn't seem that fair but it was stil nice. We had a decent lunch then shock-horror! at the first tour agency we went to we found out that the train to the clouds, our main and probably only reason for coming here, is not running and has not been running for nearly 3 years! We were gutted. Sometimes it's hard to get good info in South America and we thought we had got used to that but still, we were really ...