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Day 96-97: Hitchhiking the back road to Cafayate
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 23 May 2010
Truckload of builders heading back to work It's hard to rub this smile off my face. I'm 30, but for once since 21 I feel invincible again. Here we are on the back of a pickup truck we just hitched, mountains in our faces, wind in our hair, bouncing along a lonely dirt road in northern Argentina. The unserviced back road to Cafayate We wanted to do a circular route around the wine region of
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Day 93: Do you believe in rainbow coloured mountains?
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 15 May 2010
Fourteen Colour Mountains - Northern Argentina Jujuy wasn't really part of our original plan until we heard about it from a Taiwanese traveller we met in Medellin. He told us about the mountains of seven colors here (at Purmamarca); I was intrigued and determined to see for myself. During our tour to Bolivia's salt flats & the southwestern landscapes, we actually saw what they called the
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Day 92: Arriving in Argentina
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 15 May 2010
Humahuaca Wasn't quite ready to leave Bolivia this morning... But all that changed when we got off the bus at Humahuaca, a small town in the Jujuy region in northern Argentina. There was something magical about this place. I haven't had a chance to even see any of Humahuaca but I just felt it in the air. Maybe because we're finally in Argentina... It was by chance we met Jose, our hostal
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Quebrada de Humahuaca: hidden Argentina
Blog: PocketCultures - 5 May 2010
Have you ever heard of Quebrada de Humahuaca? This magical place high up in the Andes has been inhabited for the last ten thousand years, where traces of pre-Hispanic civilizations and their culture can still be seen today. Also, this mountain valley located in the province of Jujuy in northwest Argentina is the tail end of the famous Inca Trail (Camino del Inca). It was part of a major trade route used from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to traders and officials of the Inca Empire to modern-day tourists.
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11: "To the north, to the desert: Part 3"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 9 August 2009
I got up at 8, showered, packed my bags, and walked to the terminal in Jujuy for my bus to Chile.
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