These mountains will stay in my mind forever. It is always windy, cold, and these colours around. I go to bed every day with these colours in front of my eyes.
It started in the Quebrada of Cafayate, Dani showed us around.
The colours come from under sea, thousan of years, and many kinds of metals.
Our driver :)
We took some pizzas here on the central plaza - it is cheaper to buy food sometimes than to buy it and cook it yourself. It cost 8 pesos (it would be like 2 dollars and something). And the best is the breakfast or merienda (a little coffee with sweet in the afternoon to get by till the late lunch) - you get for 8 pesos an orange juice, coffee, croissants (here they are called half moons, medialunas) and buter and jam.
Unfortunatley our Couchsurf hosts were not the best. They were into party, that is for sure. There is a street full with bars, it gets full very late. I still dont undertand the Argentinian schedule, you go out to party earliest at 2 o clock - dont ask me what you do till this hour!! I had the luck to dance quarteto adn other things - here folk music is eveb populars in discos. And it is impossible to dance alone or among girls - guys just take you for a dance which is sometimes nice sometimes not.
The bar was called Macondo - like the village in Marquez's famous book.
The christmas trees are very creative :)
There was a reggea concert and many crazy people - the first time i have heard Bob Marley in spanish but it was really nice
We went on cerro san bernardo, there is a chairlift. Here you can see the perfect squares of the city
Andrea fell ill... poor
The village itself consists of 3 cuadras and is more or less a big handicraft shop
It started in the Quebrada of Cafayate, Dani showed us around.
The colours come from under sea, thousan of years, and many kinds of metals.
Thee is the train :)
Our driver :)
A portrait of Dani
can you spot Dani on the top??
Please look at the photos, it is something incredible here.
Dani came with us to Salta, so finally we really stayed a lo with him.
Salta is "re lindo" (veru beautiful), it has a different architecture than other cities here - it is because the colonnial architecture got conserved.It was the 3rd city the spanish founded here (the former two wre destroyed by angry indigenous folks) - and they liked it for its ever spring climate. They were arriving from Bolivia (where it is no good for agriculture but all the more were they exploiting the mines) and established an agricultural center in Salta.
The cathedral is the best
Some girls were celebrating the end of highschool
We took some pizzas here on the central plaza - it is cheaper to buy food sometimes than to buy it and cook it yourself. It cost 8 pesos (it would be like 2 dollars and something). And the best is the breakfast or merienda (a little coffee with sweet in the afternoon to get by till the late lunch) - you get for 8 pesos an orange juice, coffee, croissants (here they are called half moons, medialunas) and buter and jam.
Unfortunatley our Couchsurf hosts were not the best. They were into party, that is for sure. There is a street full with bars, it gets full very late. I still dont undertand the Argentinian schedule, you go out to party earliest at 2 o clock - dont ask me what you do till this hour!! I had the luck to dance quarteto adn other things - here folk music is eveb populars in discos. And it is impossible to dance alone or among girls - guys just take you for a dance which is sometimes nice sometimes not.
The bar was called Macondo - like the village in Marquez's famous book.
The christmas trees are very creative :)
There was a reggea concert and many crazy people - the first time i have heard Bob Marley in spanish but it was really nice
We went on cerro san bernardo, there is a chairlift. Here you can see the perfect squares of the city
Andrea fell ill... poor
This was the house, it looked more like some casa ocupa (squatting)
MAAM ( Museum of High Altitude Archaeology) museum is amazing. Okay not enoug amazing to make me pay 30 pesos, but fortunatly i used andrea's student card - and as you know, for argentinians (let alone they are students) everything is reaaaly cheap.
There is one mummy of a 15 year old girl (Doncella) displayed which was found above 6000 ms in 1999.
She was one of many hundreds of children who were sacrificed to the gods in the Inca empire. The children were collected from noble families (you can know this by the deformation of their skull) from different provinces (the INca empire was incredibly huge, sometimes i dont understand how they could govern it at all) - this served also to strengthen the ties. They were all sent to Cuzco, where they ook part on a ceremony and girls and boys were "married". Afterwards the chosen ones had to walk (on foot!) back to their birthplaces where they were fed and dazed by chicha (somekind of alcohol from corn) and then buried in the mountains. SInce some of them were buried at extreme altitudes, the bodies got prefectly conserved.
Look at the picture of the mummy here, and there are some other interesting things in English.
http://www.maam.org.ar/index.php?lang=2&seccion=expoperm&seccion2=ninos&nroimagen=4
In Jujuy we just stopped by with the bus. It is a chaos - here i realised that Boivia would be a cultural shock. The bus was full like hell - those who didnt get a seat, were standing.
This was the rubbish which a woman with pretty silver earrings and two children revised in front of our eyes, searching for plastic bottles.
Quebrada de Humauaca
First stop: Pumamarca
Here there is the famous cerro de los siete colores (seven colours hill). Just look at the photos, it is amazing.
First stop: Pumamarca
Here there is the famous cerro de los siete colores (seven colours hill). Just look at the photos, it is amazing.
we are the 2 of us, finally, it is a lot beter... it is a little stressfull with 4 people with different interests...
The village itself consists of 3 cuadras and is more or less a big handicraft shop
Tomorrow i will tell you more about the indios and their beliefs...
Good night
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