After Peru it was time for new adventures in Argentina. Wednesday we arrived in our very nice hotel in Salta. After a string of hostels, it is nice to be in a nice bed and breakfast, tastefully designed and with personal service. The breakfastalone is worth the money it costs to stay here. Fresh juice, warm croissants, fruitsalad and wonderful toppings gives a great start of the day.

Yesterday we checked out the city some more and went with a cable cart to the top of hill overlooking the city. Latera woman from the hotel took usto 'Ferinoa', a fair thatlasts for a week every two years. She was going there because she teaches blond people how to play football. We found it a bit strange, that they had a blond people league, but we soonfound out she meant blind, and not blond people.Every person from Salta looks forward to this event for a long time, so we were happy that we could join in the fun.

The fair shows cars, paintings, travels, clothes, food and much more and there doesn't seem to be much logic in the products that are shown. A big part of the fair is the blind football, tourneywhere the best blind football players of South Americacompete against each other. We watched the game between Argentinaand Paraguay. Even though they play on concrete, they have no fear and run as fast as seeing people after the ball that has a bell inside so they can find it.

After the fair we went to Balcarce, the street where all the restaurants, bars and clubs are. We tried the local cuisinewithout knowing what we were eating (it seems that all the local dishesare some kind of stew with meat) and flushed everything away with strawberry daiquiries.Bythe way: the thing to eat hereis empanadas, inbaked meat or chicken, they are everywhere!

Today we took a trip to the town Cafayate to do some winetasting. On the way we passed some wonderful gorges.

After the wine tasting we had lunch, Allan ate goat, but it wasn't that great,and afterwards we walked around a bit. At a stall we saw a very cool (and big) dead cactus. Against all sense we bought it and took it back to the hotel. In the near future we will ship it to Amsterdam. We will send itto one of the blog readers...so keep a look out at your mail box:-)