My First Odyssey

Salta, Salta, Salta, what can i say, i really liked this place and the people in it. I arrived at the bus station at about 7.30 in the evening and had to find a hostel. Fortunately a man came up to me with some details of a hostel, and me being the lazy person i am thought that it would be easier to take him up on his offer of a bed, which i swear i wouldnt normally do from a strange man :P. The hostel sounded pretty good, 20 pesos for a dorm room, free transfer from the bus station and breakfast included. It was in the hostel when i met an English couple, Tina and Robert, a German man Konrad and an Argentinian from Buenos Aires called Alberto. The whole of the evening i impressed myself with my spanish as the majority of the people there spoke spanish, Tina and Rob excluded.
I think i spent 5 days in Salta in total which is quite a bit longer than the 2 days i expected. On my second night in Salta i was taken to a restaurant with traditional Argentinian folk music and dancing with Tina and Rob and two people who worked in the hostel, Manu and Enzo. By the end of evening we were all up and dancing and i think Tina got a but worse for wear. Rob and Tina had to get up at 7 in the morning so left at a respectable time of 3am. I was then left with Manu and Enzo and one of the bands who had played live at the restaurant, they all dragged me to a bar (very similar to an old working mans club) where i was the only English speaker. It is difficult for me to interpret the Argentinian spanish because of their pronounciation, let alone when they are drunk old men. Luckily Enzo was there to push them off and tell them politely to go away. We all got back to our beds at about 6.30 in the morning, just before Tina and Rob had to wake up.
The days in Salta were left for shopping, museos, iglesias and chilling. It was really really hot and sunny so i couldnt really do a lot at midday and they close everything in Argentina at 2 till 5! Therefore catching up with sleep was the only other option!
The people i met in Salta were brilliant. That for me was the main attraction there. We went out to restaurants, or cooked Empanadas ourselves or would go out to the local clubs. I was only there for a few days but i feel like ive made some good friends.
I have also told myself that i will go back to Salta, on my way back up to Peru, maybe i will drop by!