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| stopping for lunch |
Dec, 1st Laguna Verde (Bolivia border) to Passo de Jamma(Argentina border)
Dec, 2 Jamma to Susques
Dec, 3 Susques to Pumamarca
Dec, 4 Pumaamarca to Termas de Reyes
Dec, 5 Termas de Reyes to San Salvdor de Jujuy
Dec, 6 Jujuy
Dec, 7 Jujuy rest day (raining)
Dec, 8 Jujuy to Salta
Dec, 9 Salta rest day
Dec, 10 Salta to La Vina 90km
Dec, 11 La Vina to Calafate 103km
Dec, 12 Calafate restday
From the frontier outpost town at the Argentina border I continued riding south through the barren high altitude landscape of the far northwest. The first day of riding in Argentina brought me to Susques, here I was able to find a ATM machine and a decent hotel for the night. It was mostly flat until the town of Susques and then the road climbed over a very long pass, then it was a 35km downhill ride to Pumamarca. Here I would be leaving the high altitude landscape of the Andes and enter the plains of North Argentina, all of a sudden the climate changed to hot and humid summer weather and lush forests.
Eventually arriving at the major wine growing region of Cafayate. While camping at the road runner hostel in Cafayate,early one morning I awake to the sound of a disgruntled guy who seems to be arguing with someone. I soon realized that he was talking to himself, he must of just stumbled home and began to vocalize whatever confused thoughts moved through his mind. Needless to say, this was not a pleasant way to wake up. The nonesense that he was spouting went along the lines of somehting like this (in broken english.) "you fuk, why you take my picture first thing in morning. fuk. ignorante! i am not jesus. jesus die for you, but i will not die for you. fuk." finally he passed out and shut up. sometimes it's like this when staying at cheap hostels. I spent a couple days here and took advantage of the tourist environment and toured some of the vineyards.
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| pumamarca campsite |
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| nice and quiet road from Jujuy toSalta |
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| Salta |
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| Salta campsite |
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| on the road to Cafayate |
