OUR WORST TOUR IN ARGENTINA!
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- OUR WORST TOUR IN ARGENTINA!
In this video we spend our last day driving around Northern Argentina before heading back to Salta for our very final days in the beautiful country of Argentina. We woke up in the rustic and beautiful desert town of Tilcara which we fell in love with the previous day and decided to stop the night. From Tilcara we drove our hire car back up to some crazy altitude to get a close up look at Salinas Grandes which is the third largest salt flat in the world! This is the first time we’ve ever seen a salt flat in person and we got to drive on it too! It was an incredible experience on a perfect and beautiful day.
However as is often the case in this part of the world, it was quite difficult to figure out how to do everything and what is safe and what we were allowed to do, luckily we got ourselves there and back in one piece but the confusion when we arrived due to the lack of information did make things a little stressful at times. We hope by sharing this video with you all that it helps you to plan ahead of time so you can see what to expect, it’s worth it but just helps to know what to expect beforehand.
Thankfully after driving back down we began the long journey back to Salta with a planned stop off at a spa Termes De Reyes which definitely helped calm the nerves.
We have been lucky enough to spend many months exploring this huge country this year and we are really thankful to be able to see it and to share it all here with you all. We’re not finished yet though as we still have a few more Argentina videos to make.
Next time!
Join us next time as we show you around the city of Salta for our final adventures here in Argentina!
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Travel vlog 122 | Tilcara/Salinas Grandes, Argentina | Country #11 | Filmed April 2022
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Even though the tour experience wasn't the greatest it still looked like a very cool place to visit. I really enjoyed seeing how those pictures we see on IG are taken. I didn't realize how thin the salt is in some areas!
The blue crystals were so pretty, but your reactions to trying the salt water 😆🤣
Yeh the thinness of the salt in some areas is the reason you’re not allowed to drive out on it alone. The salt taste was definitely not my fave! 🤣
Stunning landscapes, wonderful salt flats, greetings.
Many thanks!
the Center Salinas Grandes between the provinces of Córdoba and Santiago del Estero is the largest salt flat area in the world with more than 30,000 square kilometers (11583 square miles) Salinas Grandes, Salinas de Ambargasta, Salinas de San Bernardo y salinas Las Antiguas stuck to each other. Surpasses Uyuni three times.
Wow! That is huge!
Krikey, what an open area of vast landscape, and that blue sky is wonderful.
We were so lucky with beautiful blue sky!
Must have been quite a scary feeling driving alone up those roads, esspecially when you saw the coach on its side!?!
Salt toilets ??? Sound fun!?! Looks just like frozen lakes!!! Interesting seeing the water below the salt - it's so blue!
Great reflections on the water! WoW that HGV did look close! Looks an amazing experience.
Thank you for sharing another great video all about the north-west of our country, as you say it is so very awesome!!! So sorry the guides don't seem to be prepared to consider tourists from abroad, she must have got her job through somebody higher up, all so sad... Anyway your videos are so really wonderful I've watched and enjoyed all of them.....
This part of the country has continually exceeded our expectations with it's beauty, actually the entire country has but we didn't really know just how varied and mind blowing the scenery of the North is. We are forever thankful to all the lovely, helpful people we have met along this route across Argentina and try to focus our energy on the loveliness of everyone rather than this one unfortunate encounter.
Thank you for always watching, we're so glad you like the videos,😊 we have a few more coming before we share some more in other SA countries!
You know you're really traveling when you get a bit intimidated by the drive. Looks like it was worth it though. The salt flat landscape is stunning. And I love your overly touristy photos. David and I never know how to pose so great job posing. Pity about your guide with a place that nice I supposed she didn't feel the need to be nice herself.
We are usually awful at posing too, we took inspiration from others around us.
The drives in South America are not for the faint hearted, we keep finding more and more crazy routes! 😅
To be honest , i really love watching your blogs after my hectic day at work . please keep sharing . Love from India ))
We’re so glad to hear that, thank you so much for letting us know it really helps keep us motivated. We will keep sharing ☺️
Thankyou! I'm finding your videos as useful for where I won't bother going as much as where I'm finding I really want to go! I've been to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans (Botswana) when the
flamingoes are gathering by the 10s of thousands for the breeding season, I've sailed on Kati Thanda- Lake Eyre ( a majestic saline endorheic lake in South Australia ) during its most recent 10 year flooding and have seen salt farming all over Australia and Asia so seeing this video I realise that Salinas Grandes is therefore not of interest, which saves some days for other things.
Loving your videos and the resultant list I'm ticking and crossing😊
Ahh that’s so good to hear, it’s a big country so it’s good to see what places are like so you can plan in the things of most interest to you. Let us know if you have any questions that we haven’t covered already, happy travel planning!
Wow the altitude there must be nuts - I don't know how my body would even handle it. That's so scary about the bus - glad you guys drove the small car. I wouldn't have even thought about that. You got some great shots at the salt flats too. That's too bad about the tour though... if the person was getting mad at Craig for putting on sunscreen my hubby would die... he reapplies so often because his ginger skin just gets crispy!
We have seen and heard about some crazy bus scenarios in this part of the world so we drive ourselves wherever possible.
It was so awkward when she got mad about the sunscreen but I think she was just mad at anything we did, an angry impatient tour guide was not about to stop Craig using SPF though! 😄
Good vid, but please that is not Salta. It's Jujuy .. another province. Salinas, Purmamarca, Tilcara, etc. belong to Jujuy.
That's when they just pick some kind of people over theirs capacities, a tourist guide most speak lenguages no exception, at least in so natural diverse country like this who recieve many foreing visitors. Thanks for all the beautyful videos and i apoligize for such bad experience in Salinas! Kinda hard to catch the brithish accent but it's the more cute too 😉😉
hello guys how are you, I tell you that the largest salt flat in South America is the uyuni, and it is in Bolivia, with the salt flats of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile it is the lithium triangle, since the largest amount of this mineral is concentrated, which is the main raw material to make batteries, I send you many greetings
Wow, had no idea that lithium for batteries came from his part of the world, amazing 🤩
@@TideKnotTravellers It's one of the many gruesome underbellies of "clean energy" that people disingenuosly ignore, unfortunately. Lithium mines are massive, environmentally destructive holes in the ground.
Also mined in Australia.
I went some years ago with a friend and there was no tourist post and we had a great time, my friend came back a short time ago and also complained, that it was all just to collect money. I continued along that route that is used because it takes you to Chile and there are some small cave paintings. The people from the north, most of them aborigines, are like they are very shy and they don't like to talk to strangers, maybe that's the guide's problem. If you are going to continue through Bolivia or Peru, do not be afraid to chew coca leaves, it has nothing to do with cocaine, it is not addictive and it is the best for altitude. There are some pills but they are not entirely recommended, I don't remember why.
That's very interesting to hear the contrast between you and your friends experience, i guess his lines up more with ours. however we don't mind paying, in fact we're more than happy to contribute to the local tourism economy in this way. However, you are exactly right, the 'guide' and the others in the 'tourist' hut seemed shy and lacking in people skills as they explained nothing and sort of shouted over any attempts I made to communicate using my basic level of Spanish (which I'm trying hard to improve). This was our first experience of any negativity from an Argentinian but it was a really awful feeling. We have definitely learned the hard way to accept coca leaves as we got so ill in Bolivia while visiting Uyuni and La Paz, we will make a video about it soon too.
Now I'm curious... what happened with the guide? She must have said or done someting terrible so as to make you label your video "Our worst tour in Argentina!"
Anyway, we love your vids. Are you still in Argentina? Did you visit the "cono de Arita" (Arita's cone) in Salta?
Pero lo explica desde 16:43!
El punto de información turística sólo le cobró y anotó los nombres. Que nadie les explicó nada sobre qué debían hacer. Otros turistas que hablaban inglés, les explicaron cómo era el tour. La guía era impaciente, que pareció molestarle que no hablaran español. La peor guía turística.
No, se fueron hace meses.
We tried to keep the video (and our day) about the beauty but in all honesty this guide made this day pretty awful for us and it was awkward for the others in the group who were lovely and appeared to almost feel sorry for how we were visibly being treated, it's a shame as we have of course spent a long time in Argentina and had so many incredible experiences with locals, this was our only bad guide but wow it really did take from the experience. We decided to title the video this way because it's true, we loved the scenery, but think people should be warned of the scenario we were forced into.
We tried to do the cono de Arita but it was a two day tour that was too expensive for our budget, we were really sad not to be able to do it because it looks incredible!
@Ale Comencé a aprender español aproximadamente un mes antes de este viaje y en ese momento deseaba tanto que mi español fuera mejor, pero realmente lo intenté y ella habló sobre mis intentos, lo que hace que sea más difícil aprender un nuevo idioma. Los demás en el grupo también se sintieron incómodos, ya que estaba claro para todos ver el comportamiento hostil. ¡Estamos agradecidos de que esta haya sido nuestra única experiencia poco acogedora en meses de viajar por Argentina!
@@TideKnotTravellers Thanks for your answer! Unfortunately, we've had so many bad experiences with guides that, by now, it seems to be the rule rather than the exception. (I'll never forget one, in Yellowstone, who got so mad at two Italian women who didn't speak much English that he "invited" them to quit the group!!!) That's why it's so great to be able to travel on one's own, as you do! But it's true that, sometimes, there's no way out and you have to do it on a tour.
Anyway, we hope to have you back in Argentina some day to visit more places. Probably you've already seen them, but here are two videos about Argentina's hidden wonders: ("Maravillas Ocultas de la Argentina 1 & 2", by Tripin TV: ruclips.net/video/iUJU-6PrJf0/видео.html ; ruclips.net/video/6AcBNfxgbtI/видео.html) Thanks again for the feedback!
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Fancy someone telling craig off for using sun tan lotion .... how rude
It was very awkward as we were all stood in a line with our group and two groups ahead of us so Craig said I'm going to grab the suncream from the car as the sun at that altitude was cooking him (car was about 10mtrs away away from us) and when she turned around and saw he was not in line with us, her eyes narrowed at me and she shouted something angrily in Spanish at which point someone in the group sheepishly said, she is really mad and wants you to get Craig back here now. The others in the group openly said she is not a nice guide and was especially rude to us non Spanish speakers and it made us all feel really uncomfortable, we were all nervous laughing during the photo taking.