Salta

Salta – San Antonio de los Cobres: Our first 4’000m pass

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As mentioned in the last article, we met Heidi from Switzerland and Jeremias from Liechtenstein in Salta. They’ve been traveling through South America for quite some time and had planned a similar route from Salta as we had. So it made sense that we’d continue on together. And so we left Salta (a good 1,200 meters above sea level) together. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that they were considerably fitter than we were and therefore traveled faster (which we already […]

Belén – Cafayate – Salta: Vino y Ripio

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As mentioned in the last article, we met Claire and Sam (UK), a couple of cyclists, in Belén. They’ve been traveling by bike for a good two years now—all over the world. Together, we continued north. We were accompanied by winds from various directions and, as a result, occasional sandstorms. Fortunately, however, these were kept to a minimum. It can apparently be much sandier… The area along Ruta 40 remained desert-like. We crossed river valleys every now and then, but […]