El Refugio del Pintor
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Purgatory
... random flashing lights (still haven't worked that last one out!). However, unless you've experienced all these at once, you have not experienced our bus journey, which, blessedly, also ran on for 2 extra hours, meaning we really felt we would be trapped on the bus for eternity. The joys. However, we did eventually get off the bus and, dishevelled, exhausted and lost, ambled to our new, very nice hostel, where we crashed spectacularly into a coma-like sleep for the next 8 ...
Day 13 - Tilcara - Humahuaca - Iruya
... As soon as we checked in, we quickly got ready and headed for the the town square. Walking there was not easy because the town is 6000 ft above sea level and all the streets are extremely steep. After carefully navigating the streets and walking around town we were trying to find a place where we could get a quick bite to eat, funnily no one was around because they had all left to go to see a football game that was going on. After searching for a bit ...
Horsing around
... was a road at some stage, before it was covered in a landslide. Our horses were really nice though and treated us well and our guide was really nice and friendly. If you are looking for a horse trek around here i would recommend this crowd, Rupestre Adventuras, Emprese de Viajes y Turismo, Belgrano es Padiila, Tilcara. 150 pesos for the 3.5 hours, so about €30. After a bit more llama in the shape of a burger for lunch we hit the mesuem, Museo Dr. E. Casanova, which was mostly a lot ...
Canyons, BBQ´s and dodgy musical instruments
... Thankfully, we had brought our headtorches as the little candles which are left in the cave were mostly burnt out. The other cave was much shorter but led through the mountain to the other side. We had to crawl on our stomachs to get through one section which was pretty claustrophobic. After taking lots of photos and eating some food we headed through the cave to the other canyon. Just as we started descending down this rocky chute we heard a massive clap ...
White privilege, seven-colour landscape
... n, on the Bolivian side.
Just before I had asked my nice Bolivian neighbour from the bus to help us finding the bus terminus on the Argentinian side and so he was walking with us, when suddenly an Argentinian border policeman called him and asked him in an offensive, suspicious tone what he was doing with us two European-looking girls. "Be careful!", he warned him. And ignored us totally. I felt very angry and ashamed that our ...
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