La Docta. The city of students, Cordoba is Argentina’s second largest city. 10% of the population are university students, and as a result, it has made itself into a fantastic walkable city with lots of parks, bars and restaurants. We arrived after the worst night bus of the trip. It stopped at every town with …
Local legend has it that Mark James and B.J. Thomas got inspiration for the Blue Swede smash hit, Hooked on a Feeling, while adventuring in this town. They just changed the sound from Humahuaca [u-ma-wa-ka] to Ooga-Chaka. A downgrade for sure, but that’s what you get with out of touch record labels. It was a …
Wanna go to a dinky little town in the mountains? Yes? Then come with us on our day trip to Cachi! We got picked up at the hostel on our Spanish speaking tour. The rest of the tourists were all middle aged or older Argentines, and apparently they like to move at a slow pace. …
Salta. The food is world renowned, the nearby landscape is unique and pristine. That all makes it a pretty classic destination for us to check out. We entered Argentina via a 12 hour bus ride from the Chilean Atacama desert. The border crossing was relatively easy. Just some long lines, as our bus was the …
Lying in the middle of the driest desert in the world is the little oasis tourist town of San Pedro de Atacama. This little spot served as our hub for the landscape around for a couple days! The Atacama desert lies within northern Chile, tickling the borders of Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. the desert encompasses …
Bolivia is a country that we did not give the time it deserved. The people here are all very kind. The landscapes are wholly unique compared to the rest of the Andes. There are many adventures to be had. But it is hard to navigate the country as a tourist. Information online is limited, and …
Uyuni provided us with the most unique landscape we have ever seen. The Salar de Uyuni. Salar de Uyuni is, by far, the worlds largest salt flat. What was once a prehistoric lake has dried out, leaving behind the salt encrusted lakebed. Halite rich mountains around the basin resupply the Salar with salt every wet …
A foray well off the gringo trail took us to this little western styled town in the south of Bolivia. Tupiza straddles the dry riverbed of Rio Tupiza, and is flanked by red rock mountains on either side. The town has a lively market in the middle of it, but otherwise remains fairly quiet. We …
We arrived on a evening bus to the vibrant city, and our time here started with chaos. Our bus stopped at, to our unexperienced eyes, a random side of the road in the city and everyone got off. We got off with everybody else, not knowing what we were doing. Luckily, a local took pity …
After our time in La Paz, we headed to Sucre for a couple days. We found a cooking class for $100 total (everything is very cheap here) which would include a cocktail, appetizer, entre, and dessert. There were a couple main course options for the class and we decided to go with the Papas Rellenas. …