Hello and greetings from the city of Salta, we are back with
another video from Northern Argentina and this one's a busy
one in this episode. we'll be showing you some of the
colonial architecture that has earned the city. The nickname
of Salta, the beautiful we'll try some delicious northern
Argentine food, including my personal favorite lentil stew.
We'll learn about Argentina's colonial and revolutionary
history at the cabin. We'll visit beautiful plazas lined
with palm trees and step inside cathedrals that are works of
art. We'll admire the. From a top San Bernardo and we'll also
pick up a rental car because we need some wheels if we're going
to road trip the north properly.
Well, good morning, Good morning guys and welcome to
Salta Salta. The beautiful we have arrived here
in the city today is our first full day here so the plan is to
just explore the downtown core. We have a lot of colonial
buildings, Churches Basilica museums. It's all colonial. You
know these dates back to the uh to the days of the Spanish uh
colonizers you know and the architecture is beautiful. So
yeah. We're gonna go visit a couple of museums. That's the
plan today to visit the core of the city. so let's go
discovering a little bit. Okay do it. First up, we visited the
cab, which is a colonial building that today houses the
History Museum of the North. It's located on the south end
of the main square and it's easy to spot with its white
arches. This is a good place to learn about Argentina's
colonial and revolutionary past.
This is not a bathtub given the fact that we drink a lot of
wine. We wanted to show you this and explain a little bit
to you how the wine was made in the old days. This is a leather
uh kind of uh tub okay with a wooden frame. The grapes were
put into here and someone barefoot would come in and
start crushing the grapes with the with the feet. That's why
it's called vino potato potato in in slanging in Spanish is is
is you.
No time for a little history lesson for my dad Daniel here
we are at the who was the main building uh in the day, you
know like the day of the uh colony and this area here in
south a little bit of history when Argentina declare
independence and they try to break uh ties with Spain. This
is the places where they try to do it. Spain was uh very strong
in this area where that was called the. To Peru, which is
today's Bolivia, so the first attempts to beat the Spanish
armies were made through northern Argentina going into
Alto, Peru or Bolivia. But the strength of the Spanish in this
area was so strong that it was almost impossible. They were
advancing and fighting and capturing maybe one small
location and then sometime after the Spanish were uh
contrary attack and they lose it and it was pushing and back
and pushing and back and fighting and dying, you know so
when this route to. The impossible that's when San
Martin, the great Liberator decided to go across the Andy's
with his army and first uh liberate Chile and then by sea,
they went all the way on to uh liberate the group. At one
point, the Spaniards were pushing south and they were so
strong in the province of the next province north of here
that it was decided it was called the big uh exodus so
they. To leave nothing behind for the Spaniards and was
totally erased like anything that could be carried away was
carried away and the race was burned burned to you know,
chart the land you know. This country uh in this area of the
world, we don't have Hollywood here so the history is not very
well known to the world. Maybe but if you really like uh this
type of uh history about liberation and independence and
you can find books and read about what happened in this
area it uh you'll be surprised you know sometimes I think I'm
standing here in the cabin in and I wonder you know how many
people in those days. Must be in here in the same talking to
the to the people and encourage in them to keep on filing and
keep on the struggle and ah it's a puri history here you
know so that's the part that I like when i come to displace as
you know to you know kind of in time take casteback in time and
unposition yourself in those days but in modern times like
hearing you know what must have happen from these balcony you
know like two hundred years
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because the place is packed. Yeah. So the food has arrived.
I'm gonna let my dad start first. I'm here in the empanada
The cheese empanada very good. There's more but. Excellent and
then I have the I have another beef and we have a salad and
you have and we have fries too. I have fries came with some
steak. I'm having a lentil stew with bacon. It is so good guys.
What does it taste like? Yeah. It's just like Harding and
salty. There's sausage in here too. spicy red sausage. It's
kind of this you'd wanna have on a cold day, but I like which
is so much. Which it isn't it isn't, but I like that so much
that I'm eating it today in the heat. amazing great food here
and it's worth the wait. I'd say huh. Oh my god. Yeah. Okay.
How is that thing man looks so good. We chorizo one of the
best cuts in Argentina. Well, a lot of people think that you
can only get a good steak and Buenos, but. Sosa has a really
underrated scene here I've been here before I've had some of
the best steak in the whole country right in the city. We
also got dessert in the form of this multi layered cake with
sticky meringue and chopped walnuts. It was just as good as
it looks.
Then just across the street from the restaurant, we visited
the basilica and convent of San Francisco. The structure you
see today was rebuilt in 1759 after a fire destroyed the
original building today. Visitors can climb The Belfry,
which is the tallest in the Americas. Join a guided tour to
gain access to the stores or visit the basilica
independently.
It has been a few hours we're back in the apartment. We are
eating our dinner. We're having a little but we wanted to talk
about this afternoon a bit first up. I don't think we told
you the price for lunch was just over 2000 pesos, which
right now our current exchange rate is about thirty-five us
dollars. Yup, and it was a lot of food probably more food than
we needed. Yeah. So that's why tonight, we're having a light
supper picnic. Indoor picnic Yeah, a pic, but yeah, we would
highly recommend that restaurant. If you're inside,
it's called gotta go there early because it's very popular
and they specialize in regional food. So then after that, we
visited an attraction right across the street from the
restaurant, the Church of San Francisco, San Francisco. It's
beautiful outside and inside I would say that's probably the
most impressive church in the whole city and you can take
guided tours and. Can also go up the bell Tower. We just
visited the interior quickly on our own. so anyways we we got a
piccata. I got a beer uh beer which I will start and uh yeah,
we're just gonna have a little snack and tomorrow. uh we're
picking up a car. I don't think we're gonna take it anywhere. I
think we're gonna spend another day in Salta Argentina. There's more
stuff to do here but uh the road trip part of the North
starts very soon coming soon. So stay tuned for that.
Well good morning everyone. it is day two here in today. The
plan is to also spend some time exploring the city on foot. We
found a nearby square. It's very nice. very nice. beautiful
construction again. very colonial. a lot of trees that
uh are blooming. it seems like in this city, everything blooms
you know even the biggest trees you see. they have flowers,
beautiful walking weather. It's beautiful. walking weather is
not a scorching hot. We should also mention that we're picking
up a car soon. Yes and we're gonna show we'll show. Whole
process we're gonna be uh basically taking a cab to the
airport, renting a car which we're gonna have for over a
week and it's gonna allow us to do a lot of uh really cool
things for the north.
That morning, we visited the cathedral of Salta, which sits
on the north end of the main square. It's hard to miss with
its pastel pink and cream colored facade. Also, this
particular structure had to be rebuilt in 1856 after an
earthquake destroyed the former building.
We had a nice visit and then it was time to go pick up the
rental car. Update we are back in the apartment. We had a
successful mission picking up the rental vehicle, but oh my
driving in so it'll shake your nerves. I wasn't even driving.
I was the passenger. I was the navigator with my Gps like turn
here over there. Oh yeah and the thing is there's so many
intersections that don't have stoplights and so it's just
you're supposed to the right. The people on the right go
first, but like sometimes people just keep going and they
don't stop and there's no stop signs. It's it's. Yeah, we're
we're we're gonna try to avoid driving in the city. I think
once we're on the highway doing our sight seeing missions, it's
gonna be totally fine. Yeah. That's the only reason we
wanted the car to do day trips and then to travel up to and
it's fine once you're on the highway, but I would not
recommend getting a car for the city just do that on foot. so
something we should mention is that we're basically requiring
an automatic and nobody really drives automatics in Argentina
everyone so we are paying either triple or quadruple the
price. It's 100 bucks a day. It's very expensive. Yeah um
Ouch, but um that's something to keep in mind If you're
coming to Argentina, consider uh learning and practicing
that's the thing because we all know how to drive manual Yeah,
but we are so rusty because that's not what we use at home
and like with this traffic, you don't wanna be installing so we
got automatics and yeah we paid through the roof. Yeah we paid
for the roof for this one. Um the the last rental was wasn't
as expensive. This one is and before we went in. The car we
visited uh the main cathedral. Oh yes. yes, we did we popped
in there. beautiful very nice. very very ornate. very cool.
Yeah. Very elaborate. Also a lot of people visiting well. I
shouldn't say visiting like in the sense that we were. I mean
a lot of people a lot of people coming in to uh like a lot of
people using the church. Yeah, not just snapping photos of the
church. Yeah exactly to see and yeah the altar was spectacular.
I wonder if they're trying to pay homage to the Inca. With
the sun, you know that Golden Sun empty and now we are hungry
and it is time for lunch. It's like two in the afternoon. so
we're gonna go find a restaurant and yeah we just
needed to come back to the apartment park the car and like
relax shake off the nerves shake off the here. We survived
day one. we survived and later on, I think we're gonna go up
that mountain.
And then it was time for another lunch in the city. This
time around, we opted for steaks and pasta. We've arrived
at the cheers. Cheers. Cheers. We got some house red wine
here. Yeah. This one comes in a bulk no bottle. I like it. I
think it's good. Yeah house wine table wine. Yeah. nothing
wrong with this one. So it's going to be our table companion
and we're gonna lick with. And by the end of the meal for
sure, tell us the meat has arrived. look at that. It's
ready to jump on the plate. He wants to get into my once again
in the valley and it's good. It's ready and she has the
pasta stuffed with ricotta ham walnuts and has the cream
sauce. It's very tasty. yum. Yum man come on.
We're doing the godfather over here maybe just uh and you got
the you got the yeah over here. Yeah with a little bit of wine.
That's what we need today you know, but this is the meal of
the day. This is a meal of the day. Alright, so Sam is having
a meat pizza. Best way to describe it. Oh Oops. Oh, that
was a close call and they've given me uh a real knife. Look
at. At this knife compared to the normal table, knife, a big
boy, big boy knife don't operate with care. So yeah, we
were saying this is a thin slice of meat on top of the
cheese and tomato. It's actually reminds me a bit of
how you have a me sometimes here. Oh, yeah and the style
yeah. but this is in. it's a cut of beef beans. That's
delicious. I'm really happy. That should be a really good
lunch. the perfect size I'll definitely before, but maybe
have a little room for dessert. Oh, you know, Oh, this is a
sweet made with uh sweet potato, sweet potato and the
other one is cream cheese. You eat it together right and you
got the sweetness and the other one that is the saltiness
right. It is a beautiful combination, but who's gonna
have all these. let me try it. We all know he is. he is
beautiful um souvenirs from when I was a child and was
living in this country. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to
finish all these. we need your help. That's I'm gonna leave it
behind. no way. no way. I'm going for it. Oh we have we
have lemon cello. They brought us homemade. Music. Two
Go.
That afternoon, we visited Sedona, which is a hill
overlooking the city of salta argentina. You get some really nice views
from here. plus you can see how spread out the city really is
there are few different ways to reach the top. you can either
take the cable car grab a taxi or hike up. The bladder option
involves climbing a 1070 steps so you've been warned.
What is happening? We're back so what happened was basically
we finished our meal and then complimentary cells, which were
like uh the A of the at the end of the meal. Three of them. I
ended up drinking most of them. Yes, yes, you did the three of
them have them and my I have uh my head is spinning as you
might imagine you see the time. It's the time Bing Bing. Then
after that lunch, we got in the cab and rode the taxi up to San
Bernardo. Oh, we went all the way up there. We had a very
nice taxi driver. Yeah. we. he waited for us all the way up
there and he brought us back down. Oh my gosh like you
really get a perspective from up there. You see the downtown
obviously, but you also see how much the city's. For our last
day in Salta, we decided to make use of the rental car and
go on a little day trip. the town of Tijuana, located about
1 hour south of attention, so we headed out to the
countryside. Well, good morning everyone and welcome to the
town of Tijuana here in the province of Salta Argentina. Today we
decided to do an easier day trip a closer day trip. We only
drove 1 hour south of Salta Capitol and we've arrived in
this beautiful little town, Sleepy town sleepy colonial
town. Yeah. we're in the middle and the square. Yeah, you know
all these towns here. They have uh a square huh. That's the
center and uh beautiful trees uh lot of colonial. Houses and
a lot of them are made out of Adobe. That's the mud you know.
there's a dog. they're they're laying on the grass under the
bench. uh because you cannot miss, you know it's always a
dog or two in these parks sleeping under the beautiful
sunshine and they're very friendly. You know, Oh, yeah.
they love pets. They come to you and if you throw them uh
something to eat even better, you know, but uh they all come
to greet people. Yeah. So yeah, it's one of those uh play. Is
that uh it seems time stood still here you know. Yeah. It
feels very peaceful. We're at the foot of the mountains. Lots
of greenery. Yeah. So I think we're just gonna walk around
and you see if we find um I'm trying to find uh one of those
hats. Oh yeah the salta argentina. They have a particular kind of a hat
they use and I'm trying to find one. so when I barbecue up
north in Canada, I can wear it. You know we don't know where to
get it. People are walking around you know wearing them,
but yeah, we have to find a place where they sell. We try
to find that I wanna ask somebody. Yeah. they'll tell
you right away. You know. yeah. go here. go there.
You know
a lot of you are okay
and I see I see a lot of people.
Tomato and on top of that now, when we barbecue in Canada,
Argentinian style, I can wear my uh salta. What do you think?
Oh, that's perfect now is the last so okay.
Well, we just had an unsuccessful attempt at
visiting a local attraction. It's called and it's kind of
like a canyon with a waterfall in a stream. It looks really
nice in photos, but as it turns out, it's on private property
and right now, they're not giving visitors access like
there's signs saying it's closed until further notice. So
that's disappointing. I would say we drove in a dirt road on
a dirt road and uh not that long. But uh sadly, the place
is uh locked up. Yeah. so we couldn't access. maybe it's
just the time of year like maybe it's low season or dry
season and there's no water could be um. I also read on
like Google Maps in the review section that they tend to
charge you fifty pesos per person, which is less than a
dollar. It's maybe like 7580 cents to visit uh to visit so
yeah. If you find yourself in this area, you're probably
gonna have to drive out here and find. Out if it's open or
not, but it's not too far outside of town. It's so rural
area. you know, yeah, lots of farms old farm land and you see
a lot of uh sheep goats and sheep and uh the horses and you
have the guys working on the fields with the tractors and
they are planting. So yeah. it's a nice ride. I was
thinking that we made a mistake of not buying some bread and
cheese and salami and having a like a picnic. You know, yeah,
a picnic in the countryside that would have been nice that
would have been beautiful.
Okay. Oh,
Come here.
Oh, good one.
So it is lunch time and we've just ordered a little appetizer
to share this is called and if you ask me, it's kind of like a
cold salad with chicken breast. It's simple, but it's nice to
be getting some vegetables. There's a bit of a limited menu
here. so we're just having me. they didn't have the original
dishes available today and I have an empanada coming so
yeah. food will be here in a bit. All three plates look the
same. That's because they are three of the same. They had a
limited menu today, which is fine, so we went for the. So
it's a chickens and we can get it with mashed potato, rice or
salad. We all chose mashed potatoes, but they're very
good. Yeah. Very nice and fresh quiet place to be having lunch.
Yeah and uh very affordable prices here. so perfect. What
are we doing after this? After? yeah, we're gonna drive about
20 minutes outside of town and there's a really cool lookout
point. It's uh. Blah blah blah Well, we'll let you know when
we get I'm looking at.
So we are back in the car and continuing our drive next up to
the which is about 20 minutes outside of town and first of
all. I wanted to tell you the price for lunch. That was the
cheapest lunch. We've had. I think since we arrived in
Argentina, it was 808 pesos, which came to thirteen us
dollars for three people. Three mains one appetizer, three
drinks and it was and. Right, Sam had an empanada there. He
is in the back filling out the window. um it was a simple
meal, but it was tasty. It was fresh. It was good. I mean I
couldn't even finish my entire main. There was some mashed
potatoes left over on the dish, so we're definitely satisfied
and now we're gonna go up into the mountains.
Yeah today has been awesome. I mean last night you weren't
feeling well and so we weren't even sure if we're gonna do
anything catchy is gonna be way too long of a day trip and so
today we've just piece together this kind of like a patchwork
itinerary and it's been awesome. It's been so much fun
going to little towns driving on this uh sleepy countryside
roads and it's hardly anyone here. It's been great. The
weather has been so nice. It's just been a pleasant day. Yeah.
and if we were to continue on this road like there's a
mountain pass that reaches 4000 meters. Oh man. Oh my we've
done it before. Yeah, we have probably not today. We're just
gonna take on. Today and tomorrow, we're gonna be doing
more driving. are you pumped for that? Yeah. It's gonna be
really cool to go up to um something to keep in mind guys.
There's a lot of day trips from salta, but you end up driving 3
hours there. 3 hours back plus, maybe even more driving. If you
actually go and base yourselves up there like what we're doing.
We're going to car. If you base yourself up there then you're
really close to everything. and that's exactly what we're
doing. We're spending four nights there so super pumped
about that.
So that is a little taste of our time in and around salta argentina.
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