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So Salta!!!! Got off the bus and were completely hijacked by about ten dfferent people trying to get us to their hotel! After a group discussion we picked one and headed off! Once again bag explosion was initiated! After a pretty restful journey we reckoned we were well up to heading off and doing some old school sight seeing! So off we go and we{re finding everything very quiet and we{re thinking, here we go again, another Cordoba experience! But fear not, it was simply siesta time. Once 5 pm came round the town was absolutely bopping again! We actually headed off to the cabel cars! We figured, no time like the present and got cracking. Real old school type cabel cars, not like those in Rio at all! They don{t really bestow much confidence but we made it up and down in one piece! Not a whole lot to do at th top but undoubtedly sme amazing sceney and views! Turns out Salta is actually a pretty big place! Seeing as it was Halloween, we had signed up for a costume party in a sister hostel so we hotfooted it back to a shop to get our outfits sorted! (photos to follow). We all scrubbed up retty well and looked the part heading out, its just a pity no one else made as much effort! Ah well after one or two beverages the embarassment wore off! Wasn´t the crazy wild night that we had expected or at lest hoped it would be but we are slowly realising that there are only a few cities where this is guna happen...we´re just guna have to accept it!
The next day we just chilled out and set about organising some of the tours we wanted to do around the area! We decided to head to Cachi 7am start so it was an early night for us, which was needed after the previous nights antics!
Right Cachi! We´re talking a mini bus tour climbing all the way to over 4000m above sea level! Good practise for Cuzco and La Paz! The town itslef doesn´t have a whole lot to offer, its bascially a quaint little village with an archealogical museum, a cemetery and the token few churches. It was actually the drive up that made the trip spectacular! Huge towering mountains, tiny streams. We stopped numerous times for photo oportunities. Then what I found the most incrediable was about half way up, the landscape just completely changed....and suddenly. As you would expect with altitude, gone was the greenery and along came the dry dusty dessert effect. And with it...cacti...loads and loads of cacti!
The trip back down was pretty painful and long but when push came to shove it was worth it.
We had also planne on going to see the Mountain of seven colours while in Salta but it wasl ooking like time was going to get the better of us as we we´re to meet Dave and Brian in La Paz for Birthday season The journey to La Paz looked like a killer and we thought we would have to head off the next day to make it in time for the big party and the girls we beginning to feel the time pressure to get to Cuzco in time for their trek so we made an executive decision to leave Salta a little earlier than expected!
Up we got the next day and headed en masse to the station to see what th story with buses was! Turns outthat in order to get to La Paz over ground we would have to firstly take a 10 hour bus, followed by a 12 hour train and then another 10 hour bus ride. We could have alomost lived with that but it turns out they dont even run in sequence so we would have ended up waiting around for the train for a day and the entire journey would have taken up to three days. Veto! Out came the credit cards and we were on a flight that night!!!
We had an emotional farewell with the girls, after 2 weeks of travelling together it was hard to believe we were backto two again! Not for long though!
We flew to Santa Cruz that night, overnighted there and flew to La Paz the next morning!Backpacking my ass!
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