Quorum Hotel And Spa Cordoba

... was not quite so pleasant. We would have not usually minded, but as we soon found out, it was notoriously difficult to find a free taxi in rush hour in Cordoba. We walked, then ran, then walked, then sweated, asking numerous taxis and remises along the way, but failing to flag a single one down. As 2 taxis proceeded to drive past us and ignore us we really began to panic. We got ourselves to a good spot to get a taxi and had 2 further taxis snatched from us by a lady ...

... street *nd found * bunch of b*rs, keen to find somewhere to h*ng out for the night. A He*vy Met*l b*r presented itself to me, *mongst * mixture of discos, strip clubs *nd other joints which just didn't look *s homely to me. I noticed *n Iron M*iden video on the screen *nd the pl*ce w*s overrun with bl*ck t-shirts *nd long h*ir... I'd he*rd met*l h*s * religious following here *nd h*d p*cked my M*iden T-Shirt from the Somewhere B*ck in Time tour I bought *t ...

... nou eenmaal allemaal behoeften aan. De een daagt je enorm uit en de ander komt giechelend tegen je aanhangen terwijl weer een ander stilletjes van een afstand staat te kijken en wij die dan met een paar woordjes Spaans proberen te prikkelen. Over het algemeen zijn het allemaal echt schatjes. Op de vierde dag was het dan eindelijk zo ver. Het idee was geboren en we gingen de onderdelen kopen. Wat heb je nodig voor een hek: een deur, stevige palen, gaas, draden en wat ...

... or take, and I have to say it still feels strange walking around a packed, teeming city after spending two months in the vast emptiness of patagonia. Too bad it´s 95 in the shade, because the historical buildings would be enough to keep me here a couple more days otherwise. oh yeah, that schools I mentioned? 450 years old and they´re still holding classes

... Cordoba is the second largest city in Argintina but with only a population of 2 million it reminded us of Dublin a bit. There is 7 uni´s so there´s a good social scene with plenty of bars and clubs to explore. Our first day we explored the city and bar hopped that night. Ít was raining the next day (first we´ve seen since Beunos Aires) so we nursed our sore heads and that evening ...

... en veel argentijnse families die met kids en al op een heuveltje gaan zitten, de meeneem barbeque in elkaar draaien en daar lekker een asado (homp vlees) gaan braden. Pure cultuur! De dag daarna konden we gelukkig wel de excursie naar de twee parken doen. Eerst gingen we naar Ischigualasto, wat ook wel Valle de la Luna (Vallei van de maan) wordt genoemd. In het park waren super wazige rotsformaties te zien van wel 250 miljoen oud die door wind, water en allerlei interessante ...

Hello. I can't believe it's December already! For the first time in nearly two months, I am back in Argentina! Bolivia, Peru, and Chile were great, but in a way it feels good to get back here (although I'm in northwest Argentina, where I've never been before, so I'm not really getting back anywhere familiar). Specifically, I am in San Salvador de Jujuy. I'm going to go to the bus station later today and get a bus to Humahuaca, a small town in the ...

Crossing the border from Bolivia to Argentina involved us getting up in the middle of the night (really it was 3.30am) and being on our bus in the dark and cold by 4am! We did it and the bus trundled around hairpin bends on the rough gravel road for two hours. Upon arrival in Villazon we had a morning coffee from one of the old ladies who stand on the side of the road and pour coffee from a flask, when it was light enough and the border was opening we got into the queue ...

... food. I wanted to write on that, but don't really know how to explain. I was feeeling a transistion, feeling that the Andes were getting closer but at the same time everything was very western. That is poor I know, I'll try to come back on that. In the evening I went to buy food with swiss Alyssa and german Melanie, and we shared the meal with Franco and Sebastian, the two argentines working at ...

... day - the bus now leaves at 3.30pm. This meant that we would arrive at 8pm and the last couple of hours of our joinery would be in the dark and obviously we would miss most of the "spectacular scenery". So after a pleasant wait in the park (being attacked by ducks who like avocado on biscuits) we headed off. It was extremely slow going, 95km never seemed so long - the bus stops and starts at regular intervals to pick up/drop off locals and the ...