I'm back from my vacations - doing proper holiday again 🤣
I went from Calafate to Tucumán by plane since a bus needs over 40 hours or more and is more expensive (I payed 60€ for two flight, layover in Buenos Aires). I spent the night with Leo from couchsurfing.
We spoke German all the time! He is Argentinian but had a German girlfriend for quite some time. He speaks plenty of languages and is a super interesting person. After plenty beer we fell to bed at 2 o clock in the night and I took a bus to Jujuy the next morning.He had proper bread!!!!!!! This was BY FAR the best bread I've eaten since I left Germany - totally loved it.While walking to the bus station I wanted to get some cash but it was the first of November and that's the queue for the ATMs so I decided not to need cash so quick..Sometimes the busses give out food, it looks like this and is actually worse then it looks. I ate meat-egg mix and bread, the muffin was super dry and the tortilla not worth to be called that. But I always, always bring my own food so it's not a big deal. Well Jujuy is cool, chill and laid back. That's pretty much what I did. Went to the barber and they invited me to have some beers together. They already knew me from my first visit in Jujuy a month ago or so and took a video of me saying how great this barber shop is, it's properly somewhere on snapgrambook.I followed that invitation and had an easy evening in the barbershop (yes we actually didn't leave, bought beer and played techno with the great soundsystem they got - barber shop party style 🤙)Yeah Jujuy and breakfast are two things that don't really go together. "Desayuno" means breakfast. Nothing more to say here.Well saying I did NOTHING is a lie. I rented a car for a day and went to the Salinas Grandes again since it was SUPPOSED to rain a lot which turn the whole area into a mirror that is as large as you can see. Then they are supposed to look like that:(Not my own image, pulled it off Google)Needless to say, I wasn't so lucky. Still got some cool fotos tho.Yup relaxing is what I'm up to.There is this house to have some snacks and drinks.Believe it or not but it's completely built out of salt, except the windows and the walls. Yes also the tables, benches and floor - it's all salt.There was SOME rain and some puddles, you get a notion of it how beautiful it is when totally wet.Since I had enough of the day left I decided to go to the Hornocal again.This is from the way to the mountain, god I love the Andes.It's just plain beautiful..There was this door on the way..Turns out it's full of goat shit. It's a room, maybe 20 square meters big.Continuing my way, the landscape here is outstanding.There are tamed lamas.And wild ones.Aaaand this is the Hornocal again. It's definitely my favorite mountain in the north.It wasn't super sunny but that didn't matter.Actually it rained when I left.Blue mountains? Yes! No after effects, no tricks, they are just blue.Clouds hanging in the mountains.Getting cloudy on my way back.Yup - super cloudy. I was super careful while going back, there was luckily almost no traffic.Back down from 4350 meters to 3000 and something, the clouds are still hanging in the mountains. And this is the end of Jujuy. If you want to see more of the Hornocal and missed the blog entry when I was the first time there, you can read up (or just see the pictures) in this entry of the blog: https://vakantio.de/laurineverywhere/mountains-mountains-mountains
