Since we are anticipating some long and rough bus rides throughout Bolivia, we decided to go all out in our night bus from Córdoba to Salta (in the North West Andean region of Argentina). We paid a little extra for “Executive Class” seating on the bus. We’ve been talking about these busses in our blog before but they are totally different from what you expect from a bus....they are more like first class in an aeroplane (maybe better?)
We’ve now arrived in Salta. We’ve only spent a day here but it’s the nicest city we’ve seen so far. It’s a bit touristy but most of the tourists are Argentines so for us they are still locals. We took a cable car up a mountain with some nice views of the city and the Andes as a backdrop.
We visited the first museum of this trip and saw a 500 year old (at least) preserved body of a child (basically they got the child drunk and buried it alive on top of a 6000m mountain as an offering to the gods. The cold temperatures preserved the body extremely well and it is still kept at -20 C in the museum.)
Anyway tomorrow morning we are renting a car and will be off for a bit of a road trip so it could be a few days before our next blog update. Oh yeah....just now, Conor went to the shop to buy some water. He actually went to a pharmacy because it was the closest. So when the shop girl didn’t have the correct small change (equivalent to 10 euro cents), she gave him 3 aspirin tablets instead(!!)
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