Salta

After a 9 hour drive, I finally made it to Salta. It was three hours from Tarija to the border. An hour at the border where they actually x-rayed our bags. And then another six hours to the city of Salta. There were so many police checks in Argentina. Probably because it's the road from Bolivia. Drugs or whatever. But when they saw the Canadian passport, they just let the whole van through. It was really nice.

Salta is a small town that's easily walkable. The one thing that really struck me was that even in this small town, there's rapid development and progress. Everything looks newer and shinier than Bolivia and a lot of the small cities in the Andean countries (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia). The architecture has been restored properly and they are taking care of a lot of the heritage buildings.

July 9th is Argentina's independence day so all of the principal plazas in the country are named 9 de Julio. So I was sitting in the 9 de Julio on July 9. It was exciting!