Los Pinos Hotel Salta

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jaccompagne fernando en moto (youhou) qui repoond a une annonce de boulot, on va fre le marche et je pars pour cachi enfin nje croyais.. mais mon lonely planet ma donne de fausses infos, il ny a pas de bus auj a 13h30 alors je suis ac mon sac et je nai pas trop envie daller glander ds salta.. je cherche ce que je pourrais fre et je me rappelle de la " caldera" un bled a trente km de salta ou lon peut de baigner...
je galere un peu pour trver larret de ce bus, il ...

... The "office" was a pokey little hovel that looked as if it had been derelict for a number of years. I had no choice but to cross the border; the Dutch couple had done the crossing before and told me that you can only cross on foot anyway. I assumed that my bus would be departing from La Quiaca on the Argentinian side. We walked ten minutes in the bitter cold, got our passports stamped on both sides and then had a vigorous bag check carried out by a miserable ...

... stuff them up in your cheek and your saliva breaks them down. Bica (bicarbonate) can also be used to assist in the breakdown. So off we went with a cheek full of coca leaves to our next stop. We stopped at this beautiful train bridge that is the main import/export route with Chile. It´s all through the mountains and at one point climbs 1000m by goign back and forth up a "Z" pattern having to go forward then reverse. Next ...

On Monday my "Gap Aventures" tour "Bolivia Crossing" began. Leaving behind the hustle and bustle of the delightful Millhouse Hostel I checked myself into Hotel Splendid, which not surprisingly failed to live up to its name. My roommate, Livia, (a fellow dweller of Londonish) had already arrived. As it was her first day in Buenos Aires we took one final wander around this intriguing city, discovering of all things a wonderful cafe that made proper ...

Salta Argentina, So another 20 hour bus journey and we are now in the Northwest of Argentina, the scenery is totally different here, this is Argentina´s most indigenous region ...

... from Apr 16-20 before I broke north to Jujuy and, ultimately, to cross the border into Bolivia. Salta is a city of approxiamately 500,000 people and sits in the heart of the Lerma Valley, which is where the agricultural products of the region are grown. 80% of the tobacco production in Argentina occurs in this area. Despite legistlation that bans smoking in public places, many of the lawmakers are also tobacco landowners and ...

... t feel the welcoming arms that grabbed me, embraced me and planted a kiss on my right cheek, as I had done before and living with a family and not with friends had been a shock to my system. My liberty and privacy was now the currency with which I paid my board and lodgings. I felt sick for home.



I´d made plans to meet some of the other Lattitude volunteers in town that afternoon where we´d buy food and drink and return to my house in the suburbs and relax. I reluctantly threw ...

... s for certain. We drove up past Jujuy (pronounced hoohuey but with a "ch" like in loch so really "choochuey" yes, try practising it, we had to). We stopped for lunch at Pumamerca to see the incredible seven shaded mountains before heading to the salt lakes (Salanis Grandes). Of the things I have seen on this trip the salt flats were out of this world. Truly stunning. I took some photos and for the first time I was impressed with the ...

... Fall bezeichnet er eine extrem enge und tiefe Schlucht, in die man ein Stueck weit hinuntersteigen kann. Allerdings wird der Weg hinunter bald so eng und steil, dass wir es lieber bleiben lassen. Es geht weiter in Richtung Salinas Grandes, entgegen der Franzosentour sozusagen, und es ist so hoch und steil, dass unser Auto kaum den Berg hochkommt. Offensichtlich macht sich der Sauerstoffmangel in der Hoehe auch beim Automotor bemerkbar, denn weiter unten in Salta fuhr das Auto ...

We´ve spent the past 2 1/2 days in Salta, one of Argentina's up and coming tourist destinations - particularly if you like Rafting, Skydiving, Bungee Jumping, etc. We have done the following: Visited galleries/museums, done washing, slept. Our reasoning behind this inactivity is that this is going to be the last of the familiar Europeanesque holidaying for a while - probably until we enter the US in early April so we decided these would be chilled out days. Salta ...