And so the story continues...Undeterred by our failure the previous day, without wifi, a bus or even a bed for the night, we got up at 6.30 to climb a mountain to see the sunrise on the seven coloured hills of Purmamarca, as the dedicated tourists we are! It was pitch black and after a rather treacherous walk over the shallow river bed and up a steep mountain path we made it. The view was relatively underwhelming compared to the day before, particularly because t...

We set off early from our hostel to the Pucara de Tilcara - a reconstructed fort of pre Hispanic people. There were loads of remains there and they think that the indigenous Tilcara people set it up, before being conquered by the Inca, so it then became an inca site. It was really interesting to see how they used to live, although someone had later cleared lots of the remains and built a big monuments to the two archaeologists who led the excavation and reconst...

Today we went out to the museum of archeology of the high mountains. It was definitely worth staying in salta for, although a bit creepy.It was all about the pre Hispanic people who had lived in the Andes, and featured loads of artefacts that they had found at the top of a mountain in a ritual burial site, in which the inca people had buried three children alive. There were loads of interesting details about how the children were a special offering and it was tho...

We got up early and got a bus for a few hours to salta, the local city. The plan was to head to look around and particularly go to a famous inca museum for the day. Unfortunately it was closed on Mondays!After a couple of hours rescheduling our plans we then headed out, a little later than planned, to look around salta. It's not the prettiest city but there are some really nice parks that we wandered around, and has some incredible churches. It ended up being...

Today we got up early and headed out to the square. We had been told that there was a procession for Palm Sunday and wanted to have a look. There was nothing there so we headed over to the bus terminal to buy our next tickets... and walked straight into it! We had heard a guy singing on a megaphone and when we got to the road into town there was a massive group of people, all with large bunches of palms, olive branches, lavender and other branches. At the front w...