Friday, October 14, 2005
Salta
Today we (me and my american friend Sam) travelled to Salta, a provincial capital in the north of Argentina. (it's almost on the same latitude as Rio de Janeiro)
In Salta the population is mostly indiginous as opposed to Buenos Aires where everybody looks kind of southern European.
We took a bus from Buenos Aires which took about 18 hours but the trip was not too bad because the seats went back all the way so I could even sleep a little (interrupted by a huge woman in front of me who was heaving and hissing the whole night).
Salta is a very pleasant little city (500.000 people in the city and surrounding area) and we spend a couple of days to look around. We also took the cable car up the little mountain and decided it was a good plan to walk down on the 'stairs'.
Of course the stairs weren't adventurous enough for me so I suggested to go down the steep and rocky shortcuts. Which went fine except when we came to the end, a high fence , with no any trace of the stairs. Whichever way we looked there were big (read expensive) houses surrounded by fences guarded by scary looking dogs. On the other side thick brush and trees.
One of the houses was deserted so I managed it to the other side of the fence and jumped down a fairly high wall just to discover that there was a locked gate on the road side of the house.
Finally after about 45 minutes of cutting ourselves through either side we found the 'path' to the main road again....phew.
In Salta the population is mostly indiginous as opposed to Buenos Aires where everybody looks kind of southern European.
We took a bus from Buenos Aires which took about 18 hours but the trip was not too bad because the seats went back all the way so I could even sleep a little (interrupted by a huge woman in front of me who was heaving and hissing the whole night).
Salta is a very pleasant little city (500.000 people in the city and surrounding area) and we spend a couple of days to look around. We also took the cable car up the little mountain and decided it was a good plan to walk down on the 'stairs'.
Of course the stairs weren't adventurous enough for me so I suggested to go down the steep and rocky shortcuts. Which went fine except when we came to the end, a high fence , with no any trace of the stairs. Whichever way we looked there were big (read expensive) houses surrounded by fences guarded by scary looking dogs. On the other side thick brush and trees.
One of the houses was deserted so I managed it to the other side of the fence and jumped down a fairly high wall just to discover that there was a locked gate on the road side of the house.
Finally after about 45 minutes of cutting ourselves through either side we found the 'path' to the main road again....phew.
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