Rincon de Fuego Tilcara

... white bean and vege stew with meat of course), and a half bottle of wine. I sat for 1.5 hours and went to bed. I am defintiely feeling the effects of the altitude and staying was a good excuse to climitize before heading further up tomorrow. I realized the next day, that the old guy at the hostel seems good natured if a little unsavy. The hostel is all ātched together. He reminds of my landlord Ben at 91 Mullen, sort of a doofus, but means well. Decided to just ...

... go and people to meet so I disciplined myself into buying a ticket the night before for the 10.30 border bus. So... I went to breakfast and unwittingly kicked the table, spilling coffee in a great pool on the cloth and the floor, and scattering my strainer full of coffee grounds about the dining room. Bad start. Next on the agenda was finding an internet cafe, open early, to get online and book my refugio beds for the 5 day hike I plan to do in Chile's ...

... and its proximity to an abandoned train station, with the ticket office being occupied by a family and the water tower still intact. Tilcara has a bustling peņa (local music bars where predominately traditional live music is played while folks eat and drink)scene (we only went to one in the day time while no one was playing anything) and an attractive town square with the usual handicrafts. We hopped on a ...

... Auch der Rest des Dorfes ist stark auf Tourismus ausgelegt, so gibt es auch viele feste Laeden mit den gleichen Artikel wie auf dem Markt, dazu kommen noch viele kleine Restaurants, welche Spezialitaeten aus der Region anbieten. Wir "probierten" Tamales und Humitas... sie sehen sehr schoen aus (siehe Foto) ...schmecken aber einwenig eintoenig. Gegen den Abend machten wir uns mit einer Flasche Wein bewaffnet ueber den Weg der Siete ...

... café for some internet. Thatīs why this blog is stankin huge. Today has been pretty chill. I went to my grandparentīs house for some delicious paella and almost a family reunion. Lots of the family was there, and they all include me. It is really nice to be included in a big family. Now I need to get ready for school tomorrow. I donīt have homework because I did it all, but I do have to get up at 6:30 every day =( okay, going to try to send this off again... hope it works. love you all! Andrea

First I want to say that everyone has been giving Aerolinas Argentina and bad name and recommending to fly Lan. I have had excellent service, mostly on time travel, new airplanes and pilots that fly well in some bad weather. I would recommend them and am not sure why everyone has been dissing them? Also, I need to mention that you should always be nice to everyone, no matter how much they get on your nerves as you will most probably run into them again on your ...

... asked for 60 days hoping the guy wouldn't look up Australia on his list. he did, as we got 30 days. Pocitos and the other side of the border are again like chalk and cheese. Bolivia typical 3rd world, the other side striving to get into the first. And all lying between them a river full of rubbish and stinking of urine. We have to say that Bolivians are far more friendly and ...

... that decided us to not stop at the Tropic. We had breakfast in Tilcara, overhearing a conversation confirming the fate of the Llama. Later, in the bus to Humahuaca, we passed by the Tropic and saw that people were still there, getting ready for the ritual of the sun... that was nowhere to be seen. Humahuaca, main town of the Quebrada... nothing really exceptional compared to the other towns, but still that very quiet ...