Salta, Argentina

Arriving in Salta was a little odd for me as it was my first time in months of being back in civilisation once again. Did i mention the Lomito...oh yeh, a steak butty with egg and whatever else is going :)

After many missinterpretations i found the Guemes statue, (spanish pronounciations have changed once AGAIN.... :( .......)

It was time to tackle their equivalent of Killiney Hill.

Salta at night.

I was not going to miss the opportunity to see real Inka people so i went to Museo De Arqueologia de Alta Montana, where the Inca children are kept that were found as sacrifices in the frozen Llullailaco mountain. There was over 100 different artifacts burried with the children as gifts for the gods upon their gifted journey.

After the museum myself and Tana went for an auld walk around the town. She was very interesting person, she is doctor with no borders who works in the like of Africa and so on for 6 months on and off and wears a bullet proof vest to work.

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Rosie & B, the two girls from England on the Salt Flats trip were great craic, Ronan an Irish lad from Wicklow town was also good banter so we all decided to stick around in San Pedro de Atacama in Chile for a few days.

After a good nights rest Ronan and I hit the bikes. It was hot during the day and its bit crazy to think that we were so close to Bolivia as the weather had suprisingly yet positively changed.

It wasnt long before we had made 3 new dog friends, which followed us the whole day through thick and thin, they deserved a blue peter badge but there was no shop insight.

The cycle had somewhat of a cross country feel ..one might say !!!

We got the bikes across and now it was time for me to get across.

Im smiling so much as, Ronan had just fallen after doing the 2nd jump and i kept laughing which resulted in me having to do the possibly fatal jump ha ha lol.

B learning how to beat her mental block about riding a bike

Star Gazing, always looked at them but not a notion, now i know a little about the stars in the wrong hemisphere :)

Check Saturn out below

This really is not a back-drop. Its the milkyway with 30 second slow shutter.

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