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Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Salta and surroundings


Hallo,
we spent the last days in Salta and travelling through the surrounding area. When I say "surrounding" I really mean about 300 km up north and 200 km down south ... the landscape are is so vast, it´s unbelievable. We travelled through incredible wide and beautiful landscapes, valleys and mountains and came through "villages" with 1 house (maybe 4 souls :-) ) to the regional capital of 5000 souls (about 100 houses?) ... but most of them were about 4-10 houses.. and in between were km of km with NOTHING but LANDSCAPE! .. beautiful, impressive, astounding, incredible LANDSCAPE ...
these last 6 days costed me about 6 film-rolls.... and Mirko about 300MB of memory card ... but one could not resist the temptation!! every 5 minutes we stopped the car to "stare in wonder" .. and to take pictures!
The landscape was formed mostly by gigantic stone formations of every kind, colour and texture ... but then again we came through green valleys just to reach again sandy, stony grounds dotted by a few bushes ..
and everything was sooooooo vast and sooooo empty ... as far as the eye could reach .... !!!!
I have never before seen so much land and so few people and life .... !!
We were very, very impressed and enjoyed these days very much!

Unfortunately, we, again, are not able to provide you with pictures at the moment ... as much as we would want to share a few with you, really ... missing USB-connection on the local PCs.... :-(
We hope to be able to show you again some pictures soon... maybe in the next big city...

We send you best regards ! Hope you are fine and guess you can enjoy spring in germany/Austria as well!

Renate & Mirko

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