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Travel Blogs from La Rioja
Up to the north...
Po prvi voznji z semi-camo avtobusom (beri zelo udobno) sva po sestih urah prispela v severno provinco La Rioja. Pricakalo naju je skoraj puscavsko vreme, temperatura vec kot 35 stopinj. Mesto je bilo mrtvo, bila sva skoraj edina na ulici, ampak to je pac siesta. Sele zvecer pride spet zivljenje v mesto. Tudi midva nisva pretiravala z aktivnostmi, …
La Rioja... Why would you go there?
... siesta!
So finally after finding a hotel, my friend and I went in search of a car rental place in a bid to escape the town and camp in a national park about 200km west of where we were. The man who we hired the car from was a character. When I tried to hand signal to him what would happen if we crashed, he hand signaled back quite clearly 'I will beat the **** out of you'. Considering that he looked a lot like Sylesta Stallone from the ...
Met zijn allen de lucht in
... drie, het was geweldig!
We blijven nog een paar dagen in Rioja en verdiepen ons in de theorie en de praktijk van de Asado (Argentijnse barbecue). Welke delen van het rund smaken het best en hoe rooster je ze optimaal. Het vlees is hier ontzettend lekker. Een saus van Calvé voegt hier niets toe. Beetje zout en peper en smullen. Alicia en Robi waren altijd al een carnivoor maar ook Ines, Nadia en zelfs Mélisande als halve vegetariër, genieten enrom van de ...
Mountain High, Valley Dry
... in Humahuaca three nights, with Tuesday a day of relaxing in my cool room out of the heat outside.
On Wednesday I wandered into town to get the 11.20 bus to Salta. I arrived at the bus station at 11.15 and the bus eventually arrived at 2.05 and departed at 2.10. I am not sure what the delay was but there was another bus with the same company due to leave for Salta at 2.15. I eventually arrived in Salta at 6.30. The first thing I noticed in Salta ...
Exploring La Rioja Argentina
... 8217;s tradition for us.
We head back without Globos success to have a cocktail while we wait for everyone else. We sit outside the Naindo Hotel on the terrace which is just across the street from the Centro (center) Plaza or Downtown Square. Everywhere people are walking, cars going by, radios blasting Latin music, church bells ringing. We thoroughly enjoy ourselves just drinking in the experience. As we sit, we are approached by street urchins ...