Day 193 – Friday 31st March 2006 After nipping into Tupiza town to get some breakfast (a pastie type thing named a Salteña) we loaded our packs onto the waiting 4×4 whichwould be our transport for the next 4 days for our trip to the Salt Plains. Things started slowly. The driver made a few [...]

Day 192 – Thursday 30th March 2006 Close by the town of Tupiza there were a few opportunities to spendan afternoon hiking,and in keeping with my idea of getting out of the town more often, that is exactly what I decided to do. The six of us all decided to hike to a place known [...]

Day 191 – Wednesday 29th March 2006 Arriving at the Bolivian border at 7am the formalities were pretty straightforward and I got another stamp in my passport. It was immediately obvious as I walked from the border to the bus terminal that Bolivia was definately not a first world country.

Days 188 to 190 – Sunday 26th to Tuesday 28th March 2006 After the Saturday evenings events my Sunday was dintinctly quiet. Monday was only a little more active, I bought my ticket out of Argentina for the following evening, had a wander around town and watched Spurs beat West Brom.

Day 187 – Saturday 25th March 2006 Part two of The Road Trip started out with a very uninspiring vist to a cheese-making factory, but this was soon over and it was into the good bit. Between Cafayate and Salta there were numerous locations to stop and take in some of the most impressive scenery [...]

Day 186 – Friday 24th March 2006 Once our hire car had arrived, we loaded our stuff uop and set off pretty much straight away on our two day, 550km road trip around the Calchaquies Valleys. We were three, myself and and an Israeli couple. Our transport was a VW Gol, equivalent to a Polo [...]

Days 184 & 185 – Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd March 2006 To celebrate my success at leaving the town for the day, I had enjoyed a few beers the previous evening with 3 Swedish lads. It was due to this that I woke up late. Feeling a long way behind in both my diary [...]

Day 183 – Tuesday 21st March 2006 Having made myself a promise to see more of nature and to get out of the towns, I explored my options and decided upon a little walking in the hills of the nearby village, San Lorenzo. I was informed there were a few decent trails and a waterfall [...]

Day 182 – Monday 20th March 2006 Not particuarly enjoying the ricketiest bed in the world and the noisiest road in Salta I moved my things to a hostel down the road and went out to see some of he things I hadn’t bothered to see the day before as I had slept most of [...]

Day 181 – Sunday 19th March 2006 Having decided not to go out drinking I woke up full of beans at a relatively decent hour and made my way to the bus station in order to take a bus 6 hours north to Salta.