Recap: In the Clouds

About a month ago, as I mentioned in one of my last posts, I travelled with half of my program to northwestern Argentina, known as NOA (nor-oeste argentina) to the province of Jujuy. It was officially a seminar on ancient andean life, but mostly just a really good excuse to not do homework and hang out with friends. We saw lots of mountains, cacti, llamas, and textiles, ate llama and coca leaves and tea, tasted salt from a salt flat, felt the effects of 4000 meters above sea level (and the clouds!), and bought lots of tourist-y goods at every market we could find. Here are some pictures:

Our cabins at the hotel, right underneath the mountains

So many patterns and textures at the market in the square in Tilcara!

Cacti and stones in an old indiginous village

That means 4170 meters above sea level, and we know this because...

...we could see the clouds! coca tea was had to combat alititude sickness

Llama stew! kind of a cross between lamb and beef. nothing super special, but now i can say i've eaten llama!

Some friends overlooking the town of Humahuaca

Salt flats! Salt for miles, it seems

Fulfilling our daily sodium requirement

Colorful, beautiful mountains. Almost as pretty and incredible as Iguazu

Okay now we're in the province of Salta, which has a lot of colonial Spanish influences, like this statue

And this church

My apologies for taking forever to post, 

Rachel