Yastaah

From Maragua we hiked one more mountain till we reached the touristic site of dinosaur footprints. It takes a couple of hours to visit that before to come back on the main road to Potolo. After that it's just about walking in the nature. We didn't meet anyone for about a couple of hours. That was cool. Till it started hailing hard. It has been a hard half an hour as there was no house or cave where get some repair. We just kept walking. At least the waterproof stuff we carried wasn't useless 😥😥 Manuella was not feeling good, so we started singing Italian songs to keep the spirit up. It actually worked 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 The rain and hail last just 30 minutes. We could enjoy the last 2 hours. But in Potolo we basically died on the bench of the main square. Forty kilometres in 2 days 😵😵 Guess what. The last bus to Sucre just left. When we were about to rent a cabana, we saw a little van. Luckily they were going to the capital, so we jumped on the backside and spent ther...

A different post today. While traveling through south America, I'm reading books written in each Country. Just a way to understand these Countries from a different point of view. While today I was at a vineyard near Tarija, in Valle de Concepción, Uriondo, I've ended a philosophical book of Borges, Between history and eternity . Yes, Borges is Argentinian, but I've started reading him while I was in Salta. As the title suggests, the essay is about the time and the eternity. How we use our time? How we consider it? "The time is a problem for us; the eternity is a play or a laborious hope". Borges writes about various approaches with which different philosophers speak about it. But he ends his essay with this sentence: "the time... is an illusion" if we consider it separately from our past or our future. He underlines some thoughts about the use of our time that iveI been asking myself here quite a lot. The tremendous landscapes, the different ...

10 hours by bus from Cordoba and I finally arrived in Mendoza. The city appears like a hub for tourists. Mendoza is just the centre of a region in South America known fot its tasty wine. But not just that: the region offers also loads of options for trekking, climbing, skiing or hot springs  where to relax. The city itself has a super big park right into the city center, called park San Martin (the national "libertador"), where people met to drink some mate, go for a run by the lake or canoeing. Alternatively you can have a 10km walk to Cerro de la Gloria which is a good spot to have panoramic pictures of the city. If you are more about shopping or bars then plaza Independencia is your place. There are also free live shows for children in case you need. Free wifi is almost everywhere. Note for the Italians: last but not least, it is pretty easy to find fresh pancetta!