This is going to be a long post, so it may be a good idea to get a cup of coffee and settle in for a bit….. also remember to CLICK on each image to see a bigger version of it! We were picked up at 07:00 in the morning by Pablo, our tour guide…
Salta is simply a magnificent city and has been the highlight of our trip so far. Salta is also known as “Salta la Linda” which means Salta the Fair and it really is a beautiful place. The colonial architecture adds to its charms and it is surrounded by low mountains which makes it a very…
We departed from Tucuman on a humid morning and began an exhausting climb up the mountains, well, the bus we were on began an exhausting climb. It was a rather treacherous mountain pass to say the least and it reminded me a lot of some of the mountain passes we have travelled in Mpumalanga, very…
Alright, we left Tanti Hostel and moved back down to Cordoba as we had to connect via bus to Tucuman to trek further north. The one great thing in Argentina (and throughout South America I believe) is that they have an absolutely amazing bus network system. These are not just any buses (We have used…
Well, we were in the city of Tucuman for a few days and the Wifi was patchy there, we then moved onto Tafi Del Valle where there was only one place in the whole village that had WiFi and so it has been difficult to put any news on the blog for the past week. …
We arrived in Cordoba and soon realised that Argentina has some really huge cities. These cities are on a par with any city in the world, they are busy, restless places and never does the noise stop. In fact, Buenos Aires is one of the noisiest cities in the world and Cordoba is the second…
We had the privilege of couchsurfing at Sergio’s home in Fune, our second couchsurfing experience. Fune is a suburb in Rosario. Rosario is an interesting city with a lot of history and lies next to the Rio Parana a navigable river that has ships travelling to Brazil from Rosario and oven from Buenos Aires. At…
We have less than two weeks to go before we leave Johannesburg and go down to PE and then Cape Town. We fly out of Cape Town to Buenos Aires in mid December and from there the journey begins. We will spend a few weeks in Buenos Aires and then we are planning to go…
