The plan for Argentina: First to Salta in the North then bus to wine country in Mendoza then head across to Buenos Aires for a brief stop before heading to one of the worlds biggest waterfalls at Puerto Iguazu on the Brazilian border. Then back to BA and onto the start of Patagonia to Puerto Madryn and Peninsula Valdez for some whale watching. Then back to BA for steak, football (hopefully) and Tango before flying out to South Africa on the 17th. All this amounts to an epic 131 hours in the bus over the four or so weeks in Argentina - its a big f*ckin country!
SALTA
Another overnight bus to Argentina involved the first 12 hours underdressed and absolutely freezing, followed by a change of buses in the coldest place we have been, Villazon, the border town between Bolivia and Argentina...
We arrived in Salta around 4pm, after leaving Sucre at 6pm the day before. We had heard horror stories of the wait for the border crossing (one person had 12 hours there) but we were in and out in no time.
Its really nice to be out of the third world for the first time in six months, with luxuries like two taps in the shower and plumbing that can handle toilet paper!!!!
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Again we had a slow few days in Salta, we were trying to be a little stingy so we cooked all three nights we were here and didn't do much else apart from explore the city. One thing we have noticed, even in the lesser developed countries, is the meat is a lot better quality and feels a lot less artificial/chemically than home.
We hit up another museum to see somemore ice children, these ones were found at the top of a volcano in 1999, they were in heaps better condition than the other we saw in Arequipa.
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