by Allan Stratton | Feb 19, 2010 | Travels
Well, we’re back in Buenos Aires to close our trip. Today, a few images I didn’t get into the earlier posts: a couple of cool buildings, and a few tourist cliches such as the obelisk above. I don’t get why every city thinks it has to have one, and...
by Allan Stratton | Feb 16, 2010 | Travels
Well a picture says a thousand words. So maybe I should just shut up and let you see some pictures. You’ll immediately recognize the Seven-Coloured Mountain. I wasn’t exaggerating, was I? It all happened when the earth’s plates smashed up, with...
by Allan Stratton | Feb 13, 2010 | Travels
Yup, you’re looking at a heckuva lot of salt. This salt plain is en route to the Humahuaca gorge and the famous Seven-Colored mountain. It goes as far in all directions and is twelve feet deep. The miners who carve the blocks straight down are on a day off. So,...
by Allan Stratton | Feb 10, 2010 | Travels
Cachi is a very small and very beautiful colonial town about a five hour drive from anywhere, aka Salta. It’s in the pocket between two sets of mountains, so that despite how arid everything is around it, it’s actually quite lush from the underground water...
by Allan Stratton | Feb 7, 2010 | Travels
Mixed in with the mountains in the Cachi gorge are stretches of cactus plains.Careful where you sit!Pablo also took us on walks through the rugged countryside.And into cattle canyons.But the real point of this post is to show you the fun we had driving. Remember how I...
by Allan Stratton | Feb 4, 2010 | Travels
So far we’d been traveling on our own. But our excellent travel agent, Pablo Kesselman of Carlson-Wagonlit/Clarke-Way Travel — who’s originally from Buenos Aires and whose life story would make a great novel — hooked us up with a company called...
