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A ´FREE CAMP´THEY SAY!!
When i booked this trip i agreed that 60 percent of it would be camping and 40 percent would be hostels/hotels. On the itinerary we had a few nights called free camping which occured during a 48 hour bus journey. I thought this was when we camped in someones back garden with their permission, or just not pay for a campsight in a field. Throughout this trip so far i have realised that free camping involves camping by motorways in a ditch, or in a petrol station with locals glaring angrily at a group of 30 or so foreigners turning up and getting off a giant yellow truck!! However this camp site really did take the biscuit. Marc, our driver decided to drive from 6am to about 1am the next day and we ended up hitting lots of rain. So he stopped at a ptrol station and told us that we culd pitch up tents in the rain (not a good idea, we were tired, annoyed and out tents werent waterproof), sleep on the bus (30 people on a bus in one seat...not nice) or sleep outside in a shelter. By shelter i mean a deralict building with a rood over part of it. I opted for that option. By the side of a road we slept, with just our sleeping bags, only partially sheltered from the rain, and just as we started getting to sleep we noticed a GIANT toad at my feet, multiple cockroaches and to top it off a window in the buildling had a HUGE tarantula (actual tarantula no jokes!!) in it. we woke at abuot 5am from the cold and drove on.......will never do that again i swear!! but HUGELY amazing, looking back.
P Party
It was decided that when we got to Salta that we would go on a big piss-up basically!! After sleeping in a ditch, next to a motorway, with tarantulas i would say we had defo deserved it!! The theme of this night would be P. So we had to dress up as anything beginnning with P. We had the pink panther, a powerranger, a pilot, pocohontus, a peruvian pan-piper. I went as a pansy, wearing a yellow dress and i stuck purple flowers all over it and wrote pansy,pansy,pansy all over it in gold glitter paint!! We were so tired after out the free camp we decided to upgrade to lodges in th camp site. Like hell were any of us putting up tents after that night!! WE got ready and had took a tazi into salta. Our taxi driver had NO IDEA where he was going and had to radio in headquaters and ask other taxi drivers where this restaurant was. Half of us were naked, as someone went as Pale (covering themselves in talcum-powder wearing only boxers) and another went as a playboy bunny (this person was male and was wearing a corset and fishnet stockings). Needless to say, when we turned up at this lovely Argentinian steak house the manager was not happy to let us in. After many arguments between our tour leader and the manager we were allowed in on the agreement that we wouldnt be ¨rowdy¨. We had a lovely meal and by the end of it i had shared 2 bottles of lovely white wine with a friend and baring in mind i hadnt eaten a thing all day...i was pretty trolleyed! Got bundled into another taxi towards a nightclub. The taxi driver dropped us off in a random street and we ended up having to walk a few blocks to get to the actual drop off point. Had a wicked night of many drinks and gross men touching my hair for some reason when i went to the toilet...got in at about 8am the next day and, i am ashamed to say, had a little drunken cry in the club with a few friends because i was homesick.....how embaressing!!! Ended up managing to get into a cab at 9am the next day and ended up crashing and having a little lizzy-time alone the next day, which was rather refreshing after being in the same group for so long.
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