Portezuelo Hotel Salta

... nuns sit silently for all their lives.  Entering at the age of about twenty these girls are closeted within the convent, with their only exposure being at an early morning service shielded from the general riff raff by a honeycomb wall.  The rest of the time they apparently make the bread of Jesus for all the churches in the neighbourhood.  Its amazing that this practice still continues and even more so that there are twenty four females willing to subject themselves to the church.  <br ...

We arrived in Salta on a Friday, well saturday morning at 1:30am. We should have arrived at 9:30 on the Fridy night but after a few immigration offices and some sort of drug point looking apparently for drugs, oh and nuclear materials we were a bit late! So you know a usual Friday! So we got to the bus station, with no Argentine Pesos in our pockets and no hostel booked. But everytime you get off a bus in south america there is always loads of people ...

... uphill the entire way..... added bonus! So after we make our way up to the spot where we think we are supposed to leave the bikes...... because this is South America, and lets face it, nothing can actually be clearly marked, we start our hike. After about 15 minutes into the hike we discover again, that this hike, just like the last one, is going to cross the river about 75 times. Only now, even after knowing what to look for, there doesn´t seem to be such perfect ...

... vezi zeci de culori pe o bucata atat de mica de teren, diferite strate, roci, am gasit chiar si fosile. Dar o sa lasam pozele sa vorbeasca, desi, de data asta, nu reflecta nici macar 20% din realitate, oricat ne-am chinuit noi sa le facem cat mai aproape de adevar. Maine plecam spre San Pedro, in mijlocul desertului Atacama. Nu stiu daca avem net acolo, dar va vom incerca sa va tinem la curent. Numai bine Dragos

... de utilizare ale cocai -se rup frumos coditele (seama cu frunzele de dafin), apoi se ruleaza vreo 10 frunze si se baga la falcutze, ca la hamsteri. Cica nu se mesteca. Eu cred ca daca le mesteci, atunci chiar ca te ia valul. Intr-adevar, ce pot sa zic, nu am avut nici pe dracu´la 4170m (cea mai mare altitudine din viata mea), dupa ce am urcat vreo 2000m in jumatate de ora. In rest, nu pot sa zic ca am simtit mare lucru. Doar ca nu mi-afost ...

... we had to visit a view vineyards and sample some wine and some very tasty goats cheese! We sampled some of the Northern Argentine dishes, such as the Carbonada stew and the Lorco and we ate a whole goat one night. Everyday the scenary changed alot and the roads were gravel in some places so more of a challenge for our 20year old red fiat uno! Great wee adventure all in all and good way to finish up our travels in Argentina!

... in the people themselves (compared to the rest of Argentina so far), with the european influence much less evident (far less blue and green eyes), and the indigenous influence much more so. Otherwise the town was incredible quiet being Easter weekend (where things can close from Thursday afternoon right through to Monday afternoon), with only shops dedicated to tourists being in business for the weekend. Day one in Salta was spent with a ...

... Letty a friendly dutch lady with three small children (all of whom I've later discovered are in my english classes at school). I would only discover the next day just how far a "little far" is - 30min walk from school, 30min bus ride, 30min walk to their house from the stop. It was a little bit too far and impractical but I was determined to give it a go as the family were so welcoming and had made such an effort for me. However, I arrived home on the Friday to be told that the middle ...

... left there´, and that in some way that is supposed to make it all right. In the evening, I found myself following the hostel receptionists recommendation to the restaurant Dona Salta, apparently home to the best beef in town. South America has given me a lionesque appetite for red meat, something no doubt my stomach may soon start to complain about having eaten it nearly every day for 10 days!!. A clear tourist trap, the slightly older looking ...

... the day and went on a gondala type chair lift for some gorgeous views of the city. Headed back to the hostel that night and whilst Keith stayed in I went for a girls night out to see some live music in a club in town. The next day we had all arranged to head a little south to a place called Cafayate with the new crew so a rushed departure in the morning had us on the bus on our way