Salta, Argentina

📍Salta, Argentina

What a day! Turns out we arrived to Salta on their biggest religious festival of the year. Which meant thousands of pilgrims parading through the streets after apparently walking for weeks to get here today. It also meant sold-out onwards buses for us and walking through crowds clutching our passports and wads of cash after exchanging money, which is probably everything they tell you not to do in the visitor guides...

But it was all worth it for the experience of watching the celebrations and getting to see local car garages joyously spraying everyone in their vicinity with water to keep cool.

So far, Salta seems beautiful with lots of colonial-style buildings. And the good news is, we're back again in a few days so we can explore when some of the madness has died down. We've got our sights set on the cable car here to see the town from above... Watch this space!Read more