We spent the next 5 days in NW Argentina, based in the beautiful, bustling Colonial city of Salta. We were only planning on staying for 4 days but one day the fog was so bad in BA that the airports closed and we couldn't head back. After 4 jam-packed days, we elected that 5th bonus day as spa day when we had massages at the fancy hotel that the airline had arranged for us ($17 for a full hour of massage!) and our sole outing for the day was a visit to the Salta shopping mall where we practiced our Spanish with the teenage retail clerks. Apparently the mall is a place where parents drop their small children off to run wild. We saw packs of 5-7 year old kids running around in designer clothes, terrorizing the salespeople selling candy at kiosks: "Bonbons, chocolates!!!" Neysa could relate to this kind of desperation and joined the kids in chorus...
Our first day was with our wonderful tour guide, Angie, who drove us up into the 7-Colored Mountains to visit the tiny town of Purmamarca and the Salt Flats. We were accompanied by a great couple from Milwaukee who had almost an identical Argentina itinerary as ours. The mountains were breathtaking and the colors hard to believe, even in person. With a very high altitude, the air was thin and crisp, and the sun was intense, especially at the very top in the Salt Flats. We saw where salt is mined in these tiny pools, and Neysa considered taking a brief salt bath before she turned into a tiny elf. In a place like this with nothing on the horizon for miles, of course we needed to take some "magical photographs." Angie choreographed this one.
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