After one week of traveling, (24 hours of traveling yesterday) I've gotten to the Northwest of the Andes, Salta. In the beginning, especially in Buenos Aires, it was really hard to get used to the rythm here: people don't really have breakfast, lunch is around 3pm, and the can have diner untill 11pm. In a lot of places there is a siesta from 1pm to 5pm, while in the meantime everything is closed and quite. At night everything comes to live untill early in the morning. Can't blame them though, 2 days ago it was 46 degrees Celsius during the day!
After one week of Buenos Aires, I was exhausted and in desperate need of oxygen. A five hour busride took me to Colon del Entres Rios. I stayed in a really nice hostal, very quiet and clean (just got one cockroach under my bare toes ;) ).
The first night in Colon I slept for 10 hours straight :) I went to visit Parque National El Palmar: a hugh palm tree forest, quite impressive, so many palm trees along the rio Uruguay.
From Colon, a night bus goes all the way to Puerto Iguazu in 12 hours, the biggest waterfalls you can imagine. Bus rides are really good here, like the touring busses of Holland, it just takes a while to get there. On the way through I had to wait for the nightbus at 23:30 at a gas station 10km from Colon in the middle of nowhere; the bus didn't arrive until 1:30am, and that with my nerves... During the ride, I hooked up with Camilla from Italy, with whom I'm now going around with, really cool.
The Iguazu falls cannot be described through words: first we went to the side of Brazil and later of Argentina. With the first view of the falls you go like: wow! Then you walk along and you see it's even 3 times bigger, Wow! Walking towards the end, reaching the Devil's Gorge, WOW, what a climax!
Not having anything to do there except admiring the falls, Camilla and I took the bus to San Ignacio to have a look at the biggest Jesuit ruines of south America. The ruines where indeed quite large and had this really old and serene feeling around, but really the most interessting part was the biggest cactus I've ever seen in my life, and a tree with one of the ruines coloms within the tree itself. So we took the 1 hour bus to Posadas: I had to push myself inside the bus, and even then they picked up more people on the way! From there we got on the night bus to Tucuman of 18 hours, and were lucky to catch the bus to Salta directly, ariving at midnight.
Main purpose here, except for the fact that it's really a beautifull city with views of the Andes, is to hike through one of the canyons, Quebrada de Cafayate. It is kind of hard to get there, but we'll see how far we get today.
Greetz for the sunny and hot Argentina!
After one week of Buenos Aires, I was exhausted and in desperate need of oxygen. A five hour busride took me to Colon del Entres Rios. I stayed in a really nice hostal, very quiet and clean (just got one cockroach under my bare toes ;) ).
The first night in Colon I slept for 10 hours straight :) I went to visit Parque National El Palmar: a hugh palm tree forest, quite impressive, so many palm trees along the rio Uruguay.
From Colon, a night bus goes all the way to Puerto Iguazu in 12 hours, the biggest waterfalls you can imagine. Bus rides are really good here, like the touring busses of Holland, it just takes a while to get there. On the way through I had to wait for the nightbus at 23:30 at a gas station 10km from Colon in the middle of nowhere; the bus didn't arrive until 1:30am, and that with my nerves... During the ride, I hooked up with Camilla from Italy, with whom I'm now going around with, really cool.
The Iguazu falls cannot be described through words: first we went to the side of Brazil and later of Argentina. With the first view of the falls you go like: wow! Then you walk along and you see it's even 3 times bigger, Wow! Walking towards the end, reaching the Devil's Gorge, WOW, what a climax!
Not having anything to do there except admiring the falls, Camilla and I took the bus to San Ignacio to have a look at the biggest Jesuit ruines of south America. The ruines where indeed quite large and had this really old and serene feeling around, but really the most interessting part was the biggest cactus I've ever seen in my life, and a tree with one of the ruines coloms within the tree itself. So we took the 1 hour bus to Posadas: I had to push myself inside the bus, and even then they picked up more people on the way! From there we got on the night bus to Tucuman of 18 hours, and were lucky to catch the bus to Salta directly, ariving at midnight.
Main purpose here, except for the fact that it's really a beautifull city with views of the Andes, is to hike through one of the canyons, Quebrada de Cafayate. It is kind of hard to get there, but we'll see how far we get today.
Greetz for the sunny and hot Argentina!
2 comments:
Hey Jazz, what an awesome journey you have !
Don't forget to post some cool pics, I wanna see ! Specially the falls.
By the way.... are you still having a hard time with those cockroaches ? hehe ... :-P
Have a nice journey !
Hee Jessie,
Waar zijn de foto's van de watervallen? En je weet natuurlijk wel dat kakkerlakken mijn lievelingsdieren zijn! Ik leef met je mee.
Veel liefs,
Emmie
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