Soooo Chicos after Mendoza we arrived in Salta and I was 100% better again, which was exciting. Travelling when you are ill sucks big time!

I don´t really have much to say about Salta, we were here for 3 nights and only came here for two things: 1) Tren a las Nubes, one of the highest trains in the world riding through spectacular scenery and 2) To get a bus from Salta.

What sucked was that they weren´t reopening the Tren a las Nubes till a week or so after we left. There were still a load of generic activities we could have done (rafting, horseriding etc.) but we choose to save some money, after heading off budget the first half of the trip, and just explore the city on foot and a few other small things.

So we did the gondola ride so you can view this highly average city and visited an Atacama museum, which was rather good. It had mummyfied kids on display from thousands of years ago who were burried on high peaks, over 6000m, and thus near perfectly preserved. Very impressive.

What was worse about this city was the food was shocking, and not really cheap, and the weather was appalling when we were there, cold and cloudy.

To top it off we stayed in a really crappy hostel called Terra Oculta. Stay clear, dirty, smelly, cramped and no good social spaces.

Needless to say we were so glad to get on that bus to San Pedro de Atacama a tiny town (circa 2k people) in Northern Chili, an oasis in the middle of the Atacama desert. A random destination we added a week or so before, LOVE unplanned travelling where me and Frank could make up the route literally day-by-day.