Tilcara Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Apres m etre tellement plaint des bus Boliviens, il me tarde de tester ceux argentins, qui sont dans les meilleurs du monde parait il. Peut etre qu ils ont de bons bus mais il y a une longue file a la duane. Pendant que l on fait la queue a celle bolivienne, je m inquiete sur celle pour rentrer en Argentine et elle est tres, tres longue. Ca n av...

Tilcara´s a great deal smaller than Jujuy, an unassuming place in the Quebrada (gorge/canyon area) of Northwest Argentina. It boasts some pre-Incan ruins (nope, didn´t go) and a highly recommended archaeological museum (couldn´t get to that either) as well as remarkable surroudings, multicolored mountains, and skeptical residents. Our hostel was...

Having originally intended to spend around four days in Salta owing to the impending expiration of my Argentine visa, I found myself eight days later settling in more and more comfortably with each passing day. So I decided it was time to leave, and I headed off to the bus terminal with Wyonetta, a Kiwi girl, who was going in my direction. After...

Ja, am Schluss hat es mir dann doch in Salta ganz gut gefallen. War aber leider nur einen Tag und eine Nacht dort da ich die Gelegenheit ergriffen habe am anderen Tag eine Tour zu unternehmen. Nachts habe ich noch das Nachtleben genossen und im Regen ging es zurueck zum Hostal. Nach 3 Stunden Schlaf habe ich dann meine Sachen zusammengepackt und...

Sitting in the back of some Argentinean dude's pick-up truck, surrounded by mounds of garlic, I reflected on the random turn of events that led to me hitchhiking across the Quebrada de Huamahuaca in Northern Argentina. This conversation, which took place on the streets of Salta late on Friday night, replayed in my mind: Random backpacker: I have...

Wow! Other side of the border is another world! After spending the last 2 hours in Bolivia bumping around on a beast of a bus (took 5 minutes to stop) it was absolute luxury to get into an airconditioned bus with huge comfy seats. The downside? No more $1 per hour of travel. More like $1.50 - $2. But they are very nice! I can see us doing a few ...

Our warmest Christmas greetings to you all from Tilcara, Argentina. As this will be our last entry from Argentina (we´re right up in the far north-west at the time of writing) it seemed a good time to give you a little bit of an insight into our experience of Argentina by mentioning a few aspects of life here that will stick in our minds after w...