Hotels in Salta - Prices and Reviews

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We took the 11 hour bus ride from San Pedro de Atatcama in Chile through the Andes and Paso de Jama to Salta in Northern Argentina. Made it through the border crossings without having to take our bags off the bus - yeeha! Arrived in Salta late at n...

Salta, our last stop in Argentina. An Ok city, nice plazas surrounded by orange and lemon tress, and a place to rest before we continue to Bolivia. This meant wandering around, having large fruity yoghurt drinks and lemon pie. We also went to the Mercado Artisian (i.e. the art market), which was a nice indoor market with little shops selling sou...

Arrived at the border crossing of Bolivia-Argentina and I can nearly smell the clean sheets, the houses made of real bricks, the bakery´s, the modern cars and the huge steaks! Bolivia is cool to see but adios, im sick of being sick! Border crossing handy enough, got another stamp in the passport which is always cool! 8hr bus drive later we arriv...

Today we were unfortunately up reasonably early to prepare the hungi that we were doing for dinner. A hungi is a traditional maori way of cooking food underground (Andy the driver is a kiwi), so fulfilling our 50s stereotypes once more the boys went off to dig a big hole, chop wood, make fire and other manly stuff whilts the girls peeled potatoe...

Salta - June 24th to June 27th, 2007 Day 40 On the bus for most of the day. Arrived in Salta at around 2pm. Checked into hostel. However, the hostel is absolutely dead quiet and the staff don´t speak English at all. It almost seems like I am the only other person here. Well as per tradition it was time to investigate my new surroundings with a c...

Didnt stay long in Salta though it is a very pretty white washed city but the poorest part of Argentina i´ve seen so far. emptey shelled houses & a lot of dust. we worked our way slowly north through Jujuy which i liked much better than Salta - less tourists and a better vibe. Protests, catoon displays, a lively market around the bus station...

Salta, a city in the north, was our last stop in Argentina. Decided to try something new here - kite buggying - why not?! Ended up loving it, it was tiring but so much fun. First of all we had to learn how to use the kites properly - easier said than done in strong winds. Then we moved onto some flatter land and tried proper kite buggying - firs...

Home to some 600,000 people, Salta is the largest city in the NW of Argentina. Argentinians refer to it as ´Salta la linda´, Salta the beautiful. It sits some 4,000 feet above sea level and is surrounded by wooded mountains. The people here are warm and hospitable and I was lucky enough to meet a few locals who took me around during my time here...

Only just got here so, like me, you will have to wait to see what happens

High speed Internet. We all catch up on blogs and photos. Our only event is to head to a hilltop park on a tram. Nice view and a bottle of wine. For dinner is another steak. This turns out to be a recurring theme in Arg where steaks are amazing and very cheap. We head out to a street that has a load of bars and clubs but is not in any of the gui...