BYE BYE HAIR ( chop and color)

An hour before....

After... Dark reddish-brown and 2 inches shorter!

Sooooo.... a trim turned into a chop.... its just hair right? lol

Jujuy (Northwest Argentina)

The local fair (la feria) at one of the towns we visited



This little girl could be a postcard! Too cute!



Las llamas...which are used for their wool and meat here. Yes, I ate llama and yes it was yummy!


The cabanas we stayed in...with the mountains as the backdrop. Absolutely beautiful!

Typical houses of the people who live in Jujuy.

Me in Las Salinas Grandes..giant salt flats that were left here by some dried body of very salty water! YAY!

Here you can see the 7 different types of sediment that make up the Andes Mountains.



Una cemetaria in Purmamarca. All of the graves are above ground and some are very similiar to cemetaries in New Orleans, but A LOT more decorated.

The bus stopped on the side of the road so we could take pictures!

Pollo picante con arroz. This was deeeelicous and the first spicy thing I've eaten in Argentina! I wish I could give credit to the Argentines, but this was a traditional Bolivian dish!

MMMMMmmmmmmmm....tamale!

More mountains!

Graveyard

A grave of the indigenous people who used to live here. The gravyard in the pictures above is the modern way of buring their dead.

HOLA! I know it has been forever since my last post, but here are pictures from my trip to Jujuy, a province in northwest Argentina. The Jujuy province is one of the most northern provines of Argentina and borders the neighboring countries of Chile and Bolivia. The majority of the people here were of indigenous decent and there was a heavy Bolivian influence on the food and dress of the people. The weather was cold and we were extremely high in the Andes Mountains (which equaled daily headaches) but I had a blast anyway! It was absolutely beautiful and I wish I could have stayed longer!

Mar del Plata

I call this: pineapple tree

Someone had hairy pollo,(chicken). hahahaha

Lomito con queso! yummy!

This place has some of the best churros I ever tasted!

La playa

Every chocolate covered thing you can imagine. OMG

This was probably the worst hostel I've stayed in on all my trips! EWW

Beach Time! I burned for the first time in my life and realized the sun here is way stronger than in Indiana! Oops!

Montevideo, Uruguay

A mask at the Museo del Carnival

La parilla, the biggest grill I have ever seen! This place was at the port of Montevideo and was amazing!

Las Chicas!

Our hostel... El Viajero.

These are the most comfortable buses ever...each seat is its own recliner!

Haha

This cafe served the CUTEST café con leche (coffee with milk) ever!

My new drink of choice, Medio Medio, is have white wine and half champagne

An example of makeup for Carnival. Scary

All of the following are pictures from the Museo del Carnival.

Montevideo is a smaller, cleaner, less crowded version of Buenos Aires, with better food, alcohol, no dog poop, and a panoramic view of water. Basically, when I got there I wondered if I had picked the wrong city to study abroad in....and I am still thinking the same thing. haha! We spent the weekend eating in cute cafes, site-seeing the city, going to bars at night, and visiting the Museo del Carnival. It was a great weekend with beautiful weather, lots of carne asado, medio medio (half white wine, half champagne...a native beverage of Uruguay) and tons of laughs!