Salta, Argentina, December 8, 2017
What a lazy day! I had a great sleep, then wandered around the Plaza looking for people from my group. I found Jan and Richard so we shared a beer.
Tonight I went to a peña. It's a restaurant that has live entertainment - Argentinian folk music, starting at 7 pm and finishing around 4 am. I would certainly have to change my lifestyle if I lived here. I was the only person in the restaurant from 7:30 until about 9. Then, between 9 and 10, the restaurant became half full. They eat so late and it's not just adults, it's little kids too. I heard 3 acts while there and they just kept getting better and better. The first was a young man singing and playing the guitar-
Later I went to La Iglesia San Francisco. It's very unusual colors - magenta and yellow-
The altar-
The duomo-
There's this gigantic Jesus on a cross hanging off the front arch-
The thrid was an awesome tenor-
I left at 10:30 because we have an early start tomorrow - 6 am and walking home, found the restaurants packed and the Plaza, where I live, bursting with people. The Christmas decorations were lit up today and it is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception so people were wearing rosaries and the town shut down around 2 pm until tonight. Crazy!
We're trying to make San Pedro de Atacama, Chile tomorrow so we don't have to camp in minus temperatures. It's going to be a long day!
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