A 30 minute taxi ride from VGB is La Cumbrecita, another Alpine village south of Cordoba. At the insistence of the taxi driver I should call it a Swiss village although by the sausage count, I think we are looking at the German end of Switzerland. Famous for being a pedestrian village (there is a […]

The Cerro Wank is a hill overlooking La Cumbrecita and the surrounding area. Cerro is Spanish for hill. Don’t know why it is otherwise named. Another fun sign signified an easy 2 hour walk but this one was up hill all the way to the top. For us it was a breathless 110 mins to

It had been a hot day so we thought we would hit the ‘Big Waterfall’ trail at around 5:30 pm. Not the greatest idea since the temperature had been going up all afternoon. The start of the route was marked by a fun sign which signalled an easy walk but we were soon clambering over

So there we were in the ‘Swiss Village, drinking Scottish Export beer under an Argentinian flag and this fellow turns up……. Also, La Cumprecita has its own Wilderman Brewery!

The German ‘pocket battleship’, the Graf Spee was damaged in the Battle of the River Plate in WW2. The ship was eventually scuttled and the survivors were stuck in Montevideo in Uruguay. Unkeen, to get back to Germany, 130 of them settled in VGB. I guess they thought they would fit in.

General Belgrano was a hero of Argentinian independence and the designer of the Argentinian flag. Villa General Belgrano is about 90 minutes in a car south of Cordoba. It was founded in 1930 by German speculators and the Alpine quality of the village attracted people from Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. Something of their background

Stumbled into a pub last night that promised a bit of music. We had to wait a while but it was worth it. Standards were very high with songs we recognised from The Cotton Club soundtrack, a bit of ragtime and some fantastic clarinet which put me in mind of some early Woody Allen films.

We took our first overnight bus from Salta to Cordoba. We had big recliner seats on the top deck. The movie was the last Indiana Jones caper. Harrison Ford dubbed in Spanish with Spanish subtitles for good measure. Yes there was a toilet in case you were wondering. Imagine a flight with 12 hours of

Salta is famous for its peñas of which there are many across the city. They are basically parties where there will be food, drink, dancing and music in abundance. The music is often local folk music. These things are going off 7 nights a week across the city. We did our homework and chose well.

The Museum of High Altitude Archaeology in Salta is the home to three mummified children which were found on top of the Llullaillaco volcano. These children were sacrificed to appease the gods. They weren’t deliberately mummified but the intense cold preserved them for over 500 years. The museum shows only one of them at a