Salta's a favorite, but we didn't get much time for exploring. Bill and Inga had only one day, then flew out to Iguazu Falls the next, so we spent it going up the tram to the top of Cerro Bernardo. The city has made a beautiful park on the mountain top with an amazing series of waterfalls--Becky, you can get some more ideas, maybe? I can see Jeff now making plans for the tram. 

After breakfast a bird couldn't live on, we had to turn around and head back for Salta. We told Angie we were STARVING, but it wasn't until Humahuaca three hours later, that we got to eat. This is hard country with few services, so when you come, come prepared. Even though these open markets and stalls are operated by very poor people, the streets surrounding them are absolutely immaculate. They are always sweeping and cleaning and keeping their areas ne...

After checking into our hotel in Purmamarca we headed up over the pass towards Chile to find the Salinas Grandes, the salt flats.The road took us up into the clouds on our windy way, then dropped us out onto the desolate alta plano where shepherds gather twigs for a fire to keep warm at night.We were over 4,000 meters high--13,681 feet in altitude.These salt flats are about 40 km long and 26 km wide, but this is just one of many areas thick with salt. The whole n...

The HILLS! They're red, purple, green, yellow, grey, brown, pink--in layer after layer of impossibly colored ridges bathed in mist and spanked by the sun. Of course, the ones that caught my eye are the bright red ones--you'll have to come here yourself to see the purples and yellows.We drove into Purmamarca in the north western corner of Argentina and thought we'd driven into a box of crayons. But with low clouds and rain threatening, I knew we weren&...

I love waking to the sounds of birds chirping. Otherwise, it's very quiet here like everybody's gone back to where ever they came from and left the place to us. We've walked back down to this little restaurant by the bridge that we came to last night and the place is almost deserted. But there was a guy bungee jumped off the bridge just now--guess it's never to slow for inanity. Yesterday there was a big party going on here with lots of 20 year o...