january 23 - 27

we made a reservation til the end of the week at the three sisters hotel, because we planned to go to iguazu waterfalls at the border to brazil and the busses were full, except saturdays. the room was cozy and cheap and the three sisters were nice old ladies from salta, but they did not offer their kitchen for making our meals. eva felt sick that day and i strolled around in the pouring rain. again lluvia, lluvia, lluvia. time for reading books and learning some more spanish.



the next day weather was clearing up an we saw the sun again. we did some sightseeing and visited the museum in the cabildo, to learn something about local history. it was a little bit boring because there was just a presentation of ancient pots and pans and a little exhibition of argentine hat fashion.
in the evening a german-mexican couple (tobias and marcela) arrived at the hotel. they had rented a car for some excursions and we asked if it was possible to join them for the next trip. they agreed and we packed our stuff for a two-day-trip up north. we were glad to get the opportunity to leave the busy town for a couple of days.

we left early in the rented volkswagen gol (gol, not golf, maybe because people are so fanatic in fudbol - gooooooooooooooooooooooooool !!!!), and arrived in purmamaca, a nice pueblo with typicall adobe-architecture, and an amazing landscape around. the mountains were so colourful, we can't describe. we had lunch in a little comida (i had lama for the first and the last time, nothing special) and had coffee and postres in a nice restaurant afterwards.

we had to skip our next destination in the mountains, cos the road was flooded and the inhabitants were shaking their heads. heavy rainclouds sent us back south, were we visited humahuaca, a nice small village with an big skulpture, reminding of the fight for argentines independence.

we slept in a local hostel after some german-spanish conversation with wine, bread and cheese.

next day we headed up more than 4000m to the altiplano, were we visited a large salina. it looked like a frozen lake but was salt. even the houses were made of salt, unbelievable. we had breakfast there and made a stroll over the white surface of the salina which was very exhausting cos the air was very thin. a very breathtaking scenery and quiet, really quiet, great !!!

the way back to salta lead over the famous routa 40 through some adobe-villages and finally we arrived back at salta. tobias and marcela left for their bus to mendoza and we went out for dinner. two good days !

today is sunny, but we are a little bit lazy. we'll see what happens.