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Hi Everyone,
On our way from Buenos Aires to Bolivia we decided to stop in a small place called Salta. The town itself seemed quite a traditional Argentian town with lots of people dressed in tradtional costume. We spent the afternoon wandering around the town admiring the old churches some of which have so much gold in them they are almost gaudy. We also went up on a cable car to there version of the Christ which also had great views of the town or would have if it hadnt started raining on our way up. Typical!
The main reason for us wanting to stop in Salta was to see the surrounding countryside. On Friday we embarked on our longest day ever. After checking out of the hostel at 7 in the morning we went on a trip to Cafayate. On the way there and back we went through the most amazing area of gorges and valleys with crazy rock formations and loads of bright colours. Some parts even resembled the Grand Canyon. There were loads of parts where you could go climbing in to the gorges (no one told us this though and we both had flipflops on, not the best plan). We managed it though. Cafayate itself is a very small town that people from Salta flock to in the holidays. We just spent a few hours wandering around where Matt bought a hat which he is now refusing to take of and it is bright. (You will see it photos soonish promise. ) Headed to a winery which is always fun and did some wine tasting- very nice we are both really taking to the red wine in Argentina before going back through the gorges to Salta for about 7. We then had to wait until 00.30 in the morning before we could start our first adventure trying to get to Uyani in Bolivia. The bus took us to a small border town La Quiaca in the north of Argentina where we then had to walk what seemed like miles across the border to Bolivia. We then had to wait all day for a train to take us to Uyani we eventually arrived at 00.30 last night and at last our long day was over and we could get into a bed.
Anyway as you can gather we are now in Bolivia going on a 3 day tour to the salt plains tomorrow will tell you all about it when we get back and hopefully fingers crossed we can upload some photos.
Take care
Tatey and Lou xxx
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