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!