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Days 21, 22 and 23Day 21We start at 7.30am in a small 4x4 belonging to Martin, on the way towards north. We pass by the town of Jujuy, ugly and uninteresting (at once). Then, we start to take altitude and reach the small village of Purmamarca, typically Indian but also typically touristic. We make some purchases anyway: a hammac for our future garden, a coloured pancho for Alexia and some other articles that some of you will discover at the appropriate time.  Purmamarca. Then, it is a long ascencion, a road in laces makes us pass (without forcing) a collar at 4170m of altitude! Quite easy to to climb in the car...  Too strong in climbing... The way down makes us gradually discover a salt sea. Salinas Grande is a saline basin long of 120km and posed at more than 3000m high above the sea level. Once again, the landscape is amazimg, made of white (which pricks eyes a lot) as long as our sight can go or rather, until the mountain stops the sight. Contrary to the European saline marshes, salt is not consumable directly since it is not iodized. We walk a little, wondering about a lot of thimgs then it is necessary to jump in the car again. The day is fully loaded and the distances are quite long.  Champions of the world of climbing a salt hill! Then, we climb again the collar in the opposite direction and we head towards Tilcara, an old INCA village. We need to drive through the Quebrada de Humahuaca (classified with the world inheritance of UNESCO of course). We are not stopping because the sky is too cloudy for the moment but we will pass by again when returning home. We have a lunch before beginning any unspecified visit in Tilcara. We especially delighted ourselves (again...) with indigenous specialities containing mainly corn (one of the rare food to grow up at more than 3000m). After that we cross the village (renovated with multicoloured stones that one finds in the area, they are really nice) to reach the ruins of Tilcara, INCA ruins of course, preserved very well and located at mountainside, with the interrsection of 3 valleys at sight.  The temple of Tilcara After a pause in the market of Tilcara in order to catch some more souvenirs, we take the car to go down again in Salta. As promised we stop in the throats of Humahuaca for this time have a decent look at the spectacle offered by the mountain of the 7 colors. Here is the proof that the multicoloured stones used by the incas really come from the mountain.  The mountain with the 7 colors At around 9pm, we returned at our hostel in Salta after a day long of 550km through the mountains. Our evening does not last very long, the car, that makes you tired... Day 22 Not a lot to say about this day, some shopping downtown including several anti-allergics for Alexia since a mysterious animal nourished itself of our blood during the previous night. The problem is that Alexia is alergic thus she inflates... We grab some informations in pharmacies, a bit of cortizone should be enough for the day, we have a bus at midday, it is the departure for Buenos Aires in a bus even more comfortable than before. Day 23 Early arrival in the morning at Bs As, Alexia is feeling better but not yet perfectly well thus after having reserved an hostel, we go to the doctor who prescribes this time a puncture intra muscular which proves much more efficient than the pills... Then, we waste an insane time to reconfirm our return flights which seems to have been cancelled for a not very clear reason. We finally learn that all is well confirmed for Thursday. We spend the remaining of the day to walk around in the shopping streets, still gathering some more memories... Here it is for this time, still a small adventure to live before returning... See you soon! Publié à 01:53, le 22/01/2008, dans Argentina 2008, Buenos Aires Mots clefs : { Page précédente } { Page 3 sur 27 } { Page suivante } |
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