Getting a late start into Salta Rafting we arrived early afternoon to yet another camp site.  Oh how I love to camp!  Putting up my tents in the while trying to avoid biting ants is really my type of vacation!  But so be it I am on Budget Expeditions.  The drive to Salta Rafting did have its advantages of being on the tour as...

We both slept well in our comfy bed, showered, had a decent brekkie downstairs in the restaurant, and then walked off to the bus station while it was still dark. Our bus to Salta left at 7am, or was supposed to, but was only 15 mins or so late, which was fine. The bus was fairly new and comfy, but the journey wasn´t very exciting until we got cl...

Tucuman, Argentina, was not a own I ever wanted to visit, but the problem with travelling during high season is that things sell out, like the direct bus between Resistencia and Salta. Hence, I found myself at the Resistencia bus terminal at 8pm Thursday night with no where to go until a wonderfully helpful clerk explained that I could take the ...

Day 107: November 29, 2007 In Salta This will be my last post from Salta. I got to the office around 9:30. Brevard's email seemed to be working fine. When Claudia came over, she and I ordered $465 worth of books from Amazon for the UNSa library: 2 that she wanted and three for José Viramonte. It turns out that some of the other books that Viramo...

Day 106: November 28, 2007 In Salta I went down to the office after doing my morning writing. The first thing I did was check my email to see if my proposal was received at Brevard but there was no confirming email--that was bad news. I called the Postgraduate Office at UNSa to see if te certificates were ready for signing. They assured me that ...

Day 105: November 27, 2007 In Salta I didn't sleep well, thinking about everything that I have to do. I got up, made a list, and kept adding to it as I did my morning routine. The first thing I did when I got to the office was work with Toyo to send a .pdf copy of the proposal to the Dean via Toyo's account since I still couldn't attach it to my...

Day 57: October 10, 2007 Tartagal to Río Caraparí to Salta We ate breakfast and watched a beautiful red sunrise before hopping on the bus to go to the bus terminal to pick up Luis. Then, we headed north along the eastern flank of the rugged Sierra de Aguaragüe. Our past work in this area indicates that this range started to rise about 2 million ...

Off to Salta which is a city of about 450,000 in the north of Argentina, it is the main city is a region of the same name. We are stopping here on our way north to Bolivia. The bus this time took 28 hours and was pretty tough but still not to bad. We stayed in one of the Backpacker hostels there are a few of them in the city.  The...

Early Afternoon finds us at the Mumicipal Campground "Carlos Ximena". A big and well run campground, surrounding the largest swimming pool in the southern hemisphere. It's really huge, and I can't imagine a bigger one, but there is, somewhere, in Russia. Here we find fellow travellers: Karen and Coen from Holland, who have been on the road for 4...

Finally.......we`re back in the First World. No more extreme poverty, no more begging, no more Bogeys trying to sell me stuff or polution or dirt tracks. YES! Argentina.....this is the place to be. Steak, wine, roads and shops.....all the good stuff! I MUST be getting old.....! Anyway we spent 3 days in Salta which is a city of about 500,000 peo...