Salta

After the relative success that we have had using the buses in South America, we were not too worried about the prospect of a 23 hour journey to Salta, but we were wrong not to be...

The journey started ok ,but after being stopped 5 times by different police to have our passports inspected, having the bags taken off the bus and put through an xray machine at the side of the road, mine being singled out as suspicious and inspected because of the books in it??? the bus breaking down, we arrived at our change over station with 10 mins ( not the 90 we had planned )to find the next bus for Salta. Asking at the desk ( well gesturing ) we were not having much luck finding the platform that we were looking for, and the 10 mins quickly passed. So after a long interrupted night and thinking that we had missed the bus we were a little miffed. But our connection bus had also run in to trouble, and duly arrived 2 hours late. So it was 29 hours later that we finally arrived in to Salta, tired and needing a shower.

Salta, has turned out to be a bit of a disappointment in terms of things to do, but the people we have met in the hostel have been really nice, and helpful in the places worth moving on to. That apart, we seem to have a new found appreciation of Argentinian wine (£2 a bottle for the good stuff ) and the free pool table, cards and domino's have been a god send.


After talking to other travelers we have changed our plans, as we are now going to San Pedro in the north of Chile next. There is so little, background light there that you can see millions of stars in the sky, with one girl actually managing to take a photo of Saturn.... So apart from relaxing the next couple of days, and enjoying more wine we wont be up to much else.

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