Hola todos! We made it to Salta at last! Salta is a very nice place but before we talk about that it’s probably worth a quick word on what the next moves are as we are now heading into the final chapter of this mad Journey to Patagonia.
What are the next moves from here then? Well Patagonia is still quite a long way away from here and with the Patagonian winter on its way it does put a bit of a deadline on me reaching Trevelin. I need to be getting into Argentinian Patagonia by around mid May at the latest as if it is left too late into May the mountain passes can become problematic between Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia should the winter here be a harsh one when it comes in. Also the overstay in Sucré probably costed us a few days too.
The route plan from here always was to push fairly quickly through the north of Argentina, my stay here was a short one only for the weekend. I made a brief stop in a small place called Termas de Río Hondo, before carrying on to where I currently am in Córdoba in Central Argentina where I am now able to slow down a bit once again. I plan to spend about 2 weeks between here and Mendoza before crossing into Chile and heading for Santiago and Valparaíso before making my way down to Puerto Montt in Chilean Patagonia and then crossing back into Bariloche in Argentina before from there heading for the Trevelin, the end goal of this journey. It won’t quite be the end from there though but that’s as far out as we need to go for now. Still a lot of miles to cover and room for more shenanigans I’m sure.
With that out of the way, what of Salta? Well it has been by far the most European feeling city I have been on this entire trip since I left España for the New World. It has a pretty colonial centre and just generally has a very laid back vibe about the place. It has a warm temperature and has a good lazy cafe culture feel about it. This is why I say it feels like you could be somewhere in Southern Europe here just chilling and taking in the vibe.
On my second day here I do the obligatory free walking tour to properly get the lay of the land. Its quite an old city and it’s founding goes back to around the 1580’s I believe, I wish I had more to say but was very tired and the tour was done all in Spanish. I was sort of half assing this so don’t recall too much of the details. Es lo que hay!!
To be fair I don’t have a whole lot more to say about the place as I didn’t really do much here as I was busy not doing a lot getting some R&R after 3 long back to back travel days with early starts plus the Uyuni side quest thrown in as well I was quite knackered when I got here. To be honest I could have quite happily stayed here a bit longer but due to the reasoning at the start the decision was to push on – sooner we get down to Córdoba we can slow down again.
Córdoba is a long way away a bit too far for one travel day, so I decided to use a nice looking pace called Termas de Río Hondo as a halfway house for this next leg. We will go over this place on the next installment. Nos vemos!
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