Portezuelo Hotel Salta
Av Turistica No 1, Portezuelo Salta, Province of Salta, Northern Argentina, CP 4400, Argentina
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Super Mario
... had met John and Erica Gascon a 30something couple from Seattle who had sold their chic downtown cafe and had embarked on a worldwide 8 month journey across the world. They were hip, foody, inteligent, interesting, engaging, worldly and entertaining everything Mario was not. We engaged with them and headed to a local restaurant where we told stories of worldly experiences, ate steaks, drank bottles of cheap Argentinian wine and stumbled back to ...
Through The Mist, Into The Colour
... and mud cake. It has a very simple altar, with paintings from the Cusco School (as are many paintings in the churches and cathedrals that we have visited).
I think that every town and village in Argentina has a Belgrano Street or monument and the British sank the General Belgrano, an Argentinian Cruiser, to start the Falklands war.
Getting back to what is on Belgrano Street in Purmamarca, here stands a magnificent 13m black Mesquite tree. This tree has a crown of ...
Salta
... him to take the cable car back down instead of walking! We spent some time exploring the city and then decided to book ourselves on a trip to the near by wine region, cafayate. The trip was fantasic! On the way to cafayate we drove through a canyon and saw some impressive rock formations. The area actually looked very similar to the grand canyon and Bruce canyon in the USA, who would have known this place was hiding in Argentina on-route to a vineyard! We also got to see ...
EN Steak and ice cream!!
After long wait on Argentinian border and 8 hours on comfortable bus we arrived in Salta. Argentina is very civilised compering to Bolivia and Peru and also much ...
2. Bullets on the Bus
... guy must of felt a bit sorry for us and ended up giving us a private ensuite room for 4 nights for the price of a dorm room. Bonus! So we dumped our bags, had showers to try and wash away the bus ride (didn’t really work but it was worth a try!) and begrudgingly headed back over to Brazil to see the Brazilian side of Iguazu Falls. We’d heard that it was a better experience on the Argentinean side but that you should try and visit both sides. It was pretty spectacular and ...



