Upon our tired arrival in Purmamarca, after the sun has already gone down, and after driving through some soul eating clouds (Ana, they are not all white puffy environmentally untouchable goodness….), we check into a hostel room with a Spaniard and a lone traveler from Buenos Aires. We made our trip to Salta during the [...]
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Pumamarca, a Spaniard, Coctaca, and the musical Mass
Posted in Jujuy on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Salta to Jujuy and everything in between!
Posted in Salta on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a restive night at a really cute little family owned hippy hostel, we took for bright and early to go through the most touristic run of Salta province, la Quebrada de Las Conchas or Conch´s Canyon.
Do to all the hussel and bussel of tourists on the highway, and the extremely long stretch of road [...]
Vallies and wines – the road to Cafayate
Posted in Salta on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a silent nights sleep in the quite little town, we got back on the god-forsaken body jarring gravel highway and headed through part of the Calchaquí Valley.
While Mendoza is the most famous internationally known reagion for wine in Argentina, the Cafayate reagion is also relatively well known, if not a lot smaller. In [...]
Cardon National Park – en route to Cachi
Posted in Salta on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The next day Ana Maria and I jumped in a nice new rented car and spead out of Salta and on to the twisty turny gravel highways that became the bain of our driving excistance and almost the ruin of our rental car (I swore by the end it was going to fall apart at [...]
Northward again, this time to Salta!
Posted in Salta on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With mild hangovers, Ana Maria and I got up the next morning and embarked on the completely different type of journey to the north of Argentina.
Salta province, along with Jujúy, are known for their fantastically distinct and unique landscape. Mountains (including the Andes), vallies, mesas, salt flats, world heritage sites, vineyards, tropical forests and [...]
Relaxation and reflection in Paradise
Posted in Brasil, Salta on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I am back. And it is cold here. The worst thing about leaving winter is having to come back to it! But dispite the suffering upon return, while I was gone it was ESPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
So where do I begin? I suppose that I should break these entries up by spacial movement, [...]
