After Buenos Aires

we took a nightbus to Cordoba, the second largest city of the country. Everybody had told us it would be very beautiful, but maybe because we saw already so many beautiful European cities it didn' t really impress us.We stayed at a hostel, where we met other travellers and heard all kind of stories about robbery. (If someone spits at you, just keep walking.....)
From Cordoba we went up north, to Taffi del Valle (yes, another nightbus), a place that most international travellers don' t stop at, which made it more interesting as here we started to meet Argentinian travellers. My Spanish is slowly getting better, can understand most of it, but still miss a lot.. We made some really beautiful walks in the mountains, meeting horses and cows.Most of the tourists are from Buenos Aires, around our age.They're very open, and it's easy to join them, as excursions are more interesting to do them in a group. For us this is very convenient, as they do all the bargaining and discussions...
We went with them to Amaicha, a village in the north with no hardened roads, a lot of dust, from where we visited the Quilmes ruins (The Quilmes were a native tribe who lived in the surroundings of Tucuman. In the 17th century, after a bloody indigenous revolt against the Spanish settlers, the Quilmes were forced to settle in a restricted colony (reducción) near Buenos Aires, where the authorities could control them. The 1,000 km journey from Tucumán was made on foot, causing hundreds of Quilmes to die in the process) and the museum of the Pachamama (Mother Earth). They had very beautiful statues. In the north of Argentina there are mainly indigenous people living.
From there we went up north, to Cafayate, to Salta (the last city in the north), to Purmamarca, Tilcara and at last Humahuaca where we are now.
This whole region has very beautiful mountains with all kinds of colours (red, brown gray, black, white) very beautiful. We went up to 4000 meters!
We also visited the salinas grandes (a salt lake, very impressive, everything white....).

Very funny is also that we keep jumping into the same people as we met in other places.

Today we hang out with Silvina and Sebastian from Buenos Aires, we already met twice before in different places by accident. We went to a remote village, Iruya, (3 hours on a unpaved road, and 3 hours to go back), finding donkeys and sheep on our road. We also saw wild vicunas, a kind of lama.

More impressive things are coming, as.....we are planning to go Bolivia, to Uyuni, the biggest salt lakes in the world!!!!!