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On The Road - Salta to Tilcara
Checked out of the Wilson hotel just after 10. The hotel was a bit basic, right in the center of Salta. Salta at night looked a bit grubby, but now the sun is shining, surrounded by mountains, the place looks a lot better. Before we start the drive to Tilcara, we head for the cable car which goes up a mountain overlooking the city. The views are …
Life in the Gorge
We'd wanted to visit an estancia (a type of Argentinian cattle ranch) and do some horse riding while in this country but were running out of time and opportunity. Most of the estancias are, for obvious reasons, out in the sticks. Not having our own transport, most are quite tricky to get to (particularly when you've reached that last-two-month ' …
Amazing drive through the back roads
After lunch we hit route 40 … another dusty road through a desert with a lot more bumps. It was a lot flatter along this route but we did see lots of llamas and donkeys, plus a salt flat way over in the distance, which was pretty cool. If we'd had more time we would’ve gone to have a closer look, but we were running behind schedule and had to keep moving.
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Recovery
Needless to say, this morning we were absolutely exhausted, and no sooner had we had our share of breakfast (half a handful of cornflakes), and checked that none of our toes had been lost to frostbite, we fled with our bags to hunt down a hostel with luxuries such as heating, water, windows and doors. To our absolute joy, we found a new, completely beautiful hostel which was rather like ...
Last stop Argentina
... days with another weird story of how bad it was.
Getting another hostel wasn't a problem, and we ended up in a tiny private room that was quite nice albeit utterly simple.
We only had one concrete plan visiting Tilcara; checking out Pucara, a pre-hispanic settlement on a nearby hill. Pucara itself was nice, but it was too apparently rebuilt and looked way modern. The view from Pucara and Tilcara itself was however ...
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