The Andean Northwest

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Casa de la Independencia, Tucuman	Independence was signed here 9th of July 1816	Copies of the declarations	Commemorative frieze
Salta	18th Century Cabildo	Cathedral, Salta	Iglesia San Francisco
Cerro San Bernando (1454m)	Salta from the hill	Teleferico	Plaza
Quilmes (circa 1000 AD)	Fortified city withstood the Incas but not the Spanish	Two types of mortars	Jackie overlooking Quilmes
Complex urban settlement	Communal mortars	Big cactus	Wee man (fake!)
<- Restored -- Unrestored ->	Peter above the city	El Indio statue	Los Menhires (300 BC - 900 AD)
Totem	Snake with human head	Many eyes	Triangular face
San Jose de Lules	Originally a Jesuit reduccion	Now a Dominican church	Christ statue
Capilla La Banda, Tafi del Valle	Jesuit chapel (with escape tunnel)	Colonial Bedroom	Well in the courtyard
Baby llama	Only 3 months old	Modern sculpture of a pregnant Mary	Carved from a tree trunk
Purmamarca	Beneath the "Cerro de los Siete Colores"	The polychrome "Hill of Seven Colours"	Iglesia Santa Rosa de Lima
1000 year old tree	Mud brick buildings	Straw mixed in the mud	Dead cactus interior
Washed out railway	(Glad we didn't take the train)	Multicoloured hills	Unbelievable colours
Red is iron oxide	Green is copper oxide	Yellow is sulpher	Blue is copper sulphide
The long and winding road	From above 4000 meters	Tastil - old Indian settlement	Sunset from Tastil
Us above Salinas Grandes	Jackie on the salt lake	Peter's in the action too	Salt water underneath
<<< Incredible ...	... Vistas >>>	Geometric patterns	Salt ridge

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