Salta

[Stormy]

Today's Sunday New York Times travel section has a big article on Salta.

The travel writer loved it, for whatever that is worth to the mongering community.

[Dickhead]

Moore has a negative attitude about pretty much everything, so it's not surprising he didn't like Salta. I think it's great and could easily live there except for the rainy season in January / February. Excellent food, clean, pretty, lots of history, and 25% less expensive than BA. I recommend it highly.

[Tinman]

Moore is definitely right, but if you are the outdoorsy type, it would definitely warrant a visit.

The road from Salta to Cafayate is full of beautiful mountains. Once you get in Cafayate you can sometimes see flocks of parrots flying through the air. They live up in the rocks.

I saw a lot of caucasian backpackers while I was there and you'll see quite a few Americans and Germans hanging out down that one strip where all the bars are.

One thing to note is the empanadas are the *best* here so far out of all the provinces I've visited.

[Moore]

So far as I can remember, Salta is the only place I've visited in Argentina that did not impress me at all. It is like a carbon of copy of a small, rural, sleepy, boring town in the middle of BFE Mexico crawling with little brown Mexican country bumpkins. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, I just don't understand why it merits a visit excluding a few natural spectacles in the province.

[Tinman]

There is a very nice themed sex hotel in Salta called "El Castillo" Suites.

The place even looks like a castle from the outside. My memory is fuzzy, but I think it might be around the outskirts of the town. Just ask a Salteño and they will know about "El Castillo" and probably give a little smirk.

I'm not sure of the exact price, and it was a few years ago, but I believe it was around AR$50 per hour.

Basically you drive in and park your car in front of the themed room you want and walk upstairs.

These rooms are very nice and very clean. The room I was in had a large bed, a television with porn playing, a large bathroom and a large shower with two shower heads and a place to sit down (makes it easier for the chica to suck you off) in the shower.

Some of the different themes are Egyptian, Modern, Greece, China. They have quite a few rooms to choose from and each one is different.

Also, there is a little service door in each room where I think you can get something to drink without seeing the worker and without them seeing you.

I believe there is another sex hotel next to this place, but I had a great time at El Castillo. The price is right and it will certainly impress any chica you bring there.

The young lovers are used to just parking their car on the side of the road up the big mountain at night and taping newspaper to the windows so that no one can see in while they fuck. It's quite a funny sight to see, you should check it out. Just drive up the mountain at night and you'll see a shit-load of newpaper-clad autos.

So, that being said, take your chica to El Castillo and she will be very impressed, I'm sure - it's better than fucking in your car on the mountain

[El Perro]

Recent article about Salta in the NYTimes online:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/0...el/02next.html

[Yossarian99]

Been in Salta for about 2 weeks now, and a routine is starting to set in.

Sightseeing by day and mongering by nite. If you have the time, try to get out of the city to see some of the most stunning natural scenery this region has to offer.

At nite, head over to the area just on the south side of the train station in the middle of the city. That's where the clubs are, and in July, it rocks even on the weeknights because of winter holiday. Lots of Portenos up here partying.

Club Zepelin was my favorite and there seemed to be more girls than guys on the weekends. They are not pros, but are relatively easy to score if you are a western tourist.

For those who do not want to bother with having to BS with the normal girls or those who are limmited in their spanish, go straight to the south end of town, all the way to the south end of Cordoba Street as it ends at the Rio Arenales.

This area is a little dodgy, but full of working girls standing at the front doors to their rooms in skimpy clothing. The best way to check this area out is to have your taxi driver take you there. Have him stop whenever you see someone you like and call them out to the car. Have the driver negotiate for you if you don't speak the language.

You will fuck them in their rooms and they will typically charge about US$7 for full service. Pretty cheap. Make sure the taxi waits for you outside, as you don't want to end up having to walk out of the area afterwards. Taxi should cost less than US$10 for everything, including the wait, so don't skimp.

If you chose to pick up a girl on the street corner (rather than one in front of her home) don't take her back to your hotel, even if the hotel is girl-friendly. Have the taxi take you and her to a "reservado", the local term for sex hotel. For an additional measure of safety, don't tell her your real name. There have been talk of young girls bringing the police back to the guys' hotels the next morning and shaking them down for cash for having sex with an alleged minor.

OK, that's it for now. Good luck in Salta.

Yos

[MiddleAgeGuy]

As I mentioned previously, Friday night in Salta is the big party night. I got there for 1 Friday last week with the intention of going to a great place near the centre square. Unfortunately, out of respect for the festival of the virgin that was taking place that weekend at the church in the square, alas, no band or dancing.

So off we went to the other area some 8 blocks from the square, sat down at 10:00PM at a place called excetera, I think, 4 others in the joint. By 11:35, the place was packed, (300?), with 90% of them chicas y mujares! True to the waitresses word, a number of these girls were up dancing on the tables, no room for a dance floor. Others dancing between the tables and chairs. We had an early plane to catch, probably the same time activities cease, not to mention a big Saturday date, so left early.

There was a lot of great looking girls there to my surprise but not in the $ game. Lots of looking however and loads of opportunity if you could figure out a discreet way to get them out, in front of all their amigas.

MAG

[Andres]

Originally posted by DonRoberto
"Can anyone UPDATE my on the scene in NORTHERN Argentina??????"

I can only tell you that Salta, the main destination in NW Argentina, is an absolutely brilliant and safe place to visit. The problem I had is on the first day I took the Tren a las Nubes (Train to the Clouds), and got a bad case of altitude sickness, including a seizure the next day, that left me disinclined to look for chicas. But my sense was that the lively area around the station for the above train, which really rocks at night, would be a good place to look and probably find something.

Having been to Calafate, Bariloche, and Salta on my trip last month, and seen the most staggering scenery in my life, I urge hobbyists to get out and see this incredibly beautiful country!

Roberto:

Maybe Salta has a couple of great mongering places, but the region and the city are not prone to the hobbyist, mainly because:

- The NW of Argentina is the most traditional region, where Church and Family has enormous influence and power (perhaps this got enhanced as Buenos Aires got more liberal and cosmopolitan).

- Fewer people live there than in BA (in Spanish we say something like "small town, big hell": Everybody tracks what the neighbor does).

- Most people in these areas have a "Plateau Native Argentinian" look: Short, fat, not very clean, not very pretty. Similar to the Bolivian Plateau people and very different from the Santa Cruz de la Sierra o Paraguayan girls.

I agree with you that the country has countless places to visit. If you return to the NW, visit the Valles Calchaquíes: The valleys that start in Tucumán and end up in Salta. You can make a 2 day trip by car sightseeing the beautiful landscapes of Tucumán in Tafí del Valle (nicknamed "The Republic's Garden") and the Quebrada de Humahuaca (Humahuaca Brook or Cliff).

Don't miss either Ichigualasto, the "Moon Valley" in San Juan (strange rocks carved by the wind for thousands of years and with suprising shapes). It really resembles the Moon.

Hope this helps,

Andres

[DonRoberto]

"Can anyone UPDATE my on the scene in NORTHERN Argentina??????"

I can only tell you that Salta, the main destination in NW Argentina, is an absolutely brilliant and safe place to visit. The problem I had is on the first day I took the Tren a las Nubes (Train to the Clouds), and got a bad case of altitude sickness, including a seizure the next day, that left me disinclined to look for chicas. But my sense was that the lively area around the station for the above train, which really rocks at night, would be a good place to look and probably find something.

Having been to Calafate, Bariloche, and Salta on my trip last month, and seen the most staggering scenery in my life, I urge hobbyists to get out and see this incredibly beautiful country!

[Johan007]

Yo Mongers.

Can anyone UPDATE my on the scene in NORTHERN Argentina??????

what are the possibilities to Travel to paraguay???(Asuncion).Anyone done this before???(bus?? plane??)

I'd like to hear more...PLEASE.

IS there actualy a sex scene in Northeren Argentina. (Pro's and non-pro's).
Are girls intrested in marrying an European guy????

thanks.

Johan.

[Jackson]

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