{"id":206,"date":"2022-11-04T21:07:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T04:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roam-corp.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2022-11-04T21:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T04:07:43","slug":"argentina-part-3-salta-salinas-grandes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roam-corp.com\/blog\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Argentina, Part 3: Salta & Salinas Grandes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ah… Salta! Beautiful city hidden in the Andes mountains!
Very lively, Salta is a city you should not miss. The Plaza 9 de Julio<\/em> is the place to be. It has a lot of restaurants, bars and street performers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Playing the accordeon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cab\u00edldo Hist\u00f3rico.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Catedral Bas\u00edlica de Salta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I spend quite some time at Plaza 9 de Julio, letting it all sink in. As I went to have dinner at a nearby restaurant, I found this beautiful Bas\u00edlica de San Francisco<\/em>. I did not need a tourist guide book to find this amazing looking church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bas\u00edlica de San Francisco<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After dinner, I joined a Salta by Night<\/em> experience. We ended up at a bar\/pub\/restaurant\/dance hall\/… where a local band was playing folk music from this province. Absolutely great, I think I was the only foreigner over there. Thanks for a great night, Anna!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Local band Los Cardones<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salta by night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The next day I took a rental car to Salinas Grandes<\/em>, the salt flats in the northwest part of Argentina. The landscape north of the city of San Salvador de Jujuy<\/em> (a tongue twister for non-Spanish speaking people) was just short of stunning. Actually, it was stunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from Mirador del R\u00edo Grande y el Puente de Jaire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I you ever looked closely at a plate full with spaghetti, it may give you an idea how the road west of the town of Purmamarca looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RN-52 east of Purmamarca.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You don’t want to drive a truck over here, yet there were several, each going about 5km\/h (up, but also down).
The salt flats are another 70km away from Purmamarca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The makers of this sign made an error with San Pedro (my hometown) all the way in the top. It was for sure not just 250km away. I may wish to only live about 250km away from this magical place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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City finder at Salinas Grandes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Home of endless vistas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Say ‘Hi’ to the family back home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Going back the same twisty road to Purmamarca gave me an opportunity to view this beautiful landscape from a different direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And soon, I landed in the country of cacti. Those plants who stick their middle finger up to everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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