Provincia de Salta Vacations, Provincia de Salta Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

When a steak is over three inches thick, is it still considered a steak? Or half a cow.  We had heard the rumours about Argentinian steaks...and honestly, they are all true. Vegetarians beware, you will be converted if you come to this country. We are undergoing a bit of culture shock at the moment after spending so long in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. And feeling a tad underdressed in our ragged clothes that should have seen their last days many days ago. This is one cosmopolitan co...

We arrived at Mission Beach in the evening with the one and only purpose of jumping out of a plane to our death, with someone qualified (and hopefully a parachute) strapped to our back - yes we were going skydiving!  The jump was to take us up to 14,000 feet and we would free fall for a whole minute, which in falling terms is enormous! We were booked in to do our jump the following day, with Mike & Rod from Canada (who we met on Fraser Island), with the thinking that we would each&n...

Che amigos!After an intense two weeks of travelling I've now arrived in Malargue, already one of the last stops on my trip. Non-functional computers, slow internet connections, power outages during blog-writing and generally action-packed days have made it a bit more challenging than expected to keep this blog up-to-date. I'm writing this on wednesday the 23rd, but I will backdate the coming few blogs to the date I was there. Let's hope I still remember everything! Let me start were I left of...

The border crossings are a breeze with the budget expeditions tour so I still have all of my stuff after crossing from Peru to Argentina.  The road was long and rough to get to Salta with a night of free camping along the way.  Salta had a much more urban and modern fell to it than any of my previous South America stops.  The bustling shopping centers were filled with locals picking up legitimate brand name clothing typical of western culture. Our campsite had the biggest...