another video from Northern Argentina and this one's a busy

one in this episode. we'll be showing you some of the

colonial architecture that has earned the city. The nickname

of Salta, the beautiful we'll try some delicious northern

Argentine food, including my personal favorite lentil stew.

We'll learn about Argentina's colonial and revolutionary

history at the cabin. We'll visit beautiful plazas lined

with palm trees and step inside cathedrals that are works of

art. We'll admire the. From a top San Bernardo and we'll also

pick up a rental car because we need some wheels if we're going

to road trip the north properly.

Well, good morning, Good morning guys and welcome to

Salta Salta. The beautiful we have arrived here

in the city today is our first full day here so the plan is to

just explore the downtown core. We have a lot of colonial

buildings, Churches Basilica museums. It's all colonial. You

know these dates back to the uh to the days of the Spanish uh

colonizers you know and the architecture is beautiful. So

yeah. We're gonna go visit a couple of museums. That's the

plan today to visit the core of the city. so let's go

discovering a little bit. Okay do it. First up, we visited the

cab, which is a colonial building that today houses the

History Museum of the North. It's located on the south end

of the main square and it's easy to spot with its white

arches. This is a good place to learn about Argentina's

colonial and revolutionary past.

This is not a bathtub given the fact that we drink a lot of

wine. We wanted to show you this and explain a little bit

to you how the wine was made in the old days. This is a leather

uh kind of uh tub okay with a wooden frame. The grapes were

put into here and someone barefoot would come in and

start crushing the grapes with the with the feet. That's why

it's called vino potato potato in in slanging in Spanish is is

is you.

No time for a little history lesson for my dad Daniel here

we are at the who was the main building uh in the day, you

know like the day of the uh colony and this area here in

south a little bit of history when Argentina declare

independence and they try to break uh ties with Spain. This

is the places where they try to do it. Spain was uh very strong

in this area where that was called the. To Peru, which is

today's Bolivia, so the first attempts to beat the Spanish

armies were made through northern Argentina going into

Alto, Peru or Bolivia. But the strength of the Spanish in this

area was so strong that it was almost impossible. They were

advancing and fighting and capturing maybe one small

location and then sometime after the Spanish were uh

contrary attack and they lose it and it was pushing and back

and pushing and back and fighting and dying, you know so

when this route to. The impossible that's when San

Martin, the great Liberator decided to go across the Andy's

with his army and first uh liberate Chile and then by sea,

they went all the way on to uh liberate the group. At one

point, the Spaniards were pushing south and they were so

strong in the province of the next province north of here

that it was decided it was called the big uh exodus so

they. To leave nothing behind for the Spaniards and was

totally erased like anything that could be carried away was

carried away and the race was burned burned to you know,

chart the land you know. This country uh in this area of the

world, we don't have Hollywood here so the history is not very

well known to the world. Maybe but if you really like uh this

type of uh history about liberation and independence and

you can find books and read about what happened in this

area it uh you'll be surprised you know sometimes I think I'm

standing here in the cabin in and I wonder you know how many

people in those days. Must be in here in the same talking to

the to the people and encourage in them to keep on filing and

keep on the struggle and ah it's a puri history here you

know so that's the part that I like when i come to displace as

you know to you know kind of in time take casteback in time and

unposition yourself in those days but in modern times like

hearing you know what must have happen from these balcony you

know like two hundred years

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because the place is packed. Yeah. So the food has arrived.

I'm gonna let my dad start first. I'm here in the empanada

The cheese empanada very good. There's more but. Excellent and

then I have the I have another beef and we have a salad and

you have and we have fries too. I have fries came with some

steak. I'm having a lentil stew with bacon. It is so good guys.

What does it taste like? Yeah. It's just like Harding and

salty. There's sausage in here too. spicy red sausage. It's

kind of this you'd wanna have on a cold day, but I like which

is so much. Which it isn't it isn't, but I like that so much

that I'm eating it today in the heat. amazing great food here

and it's worth the wait. I'd say huh. Oh my god. Yeah. Okay.

How is that thing man looks so good. We chorizo one of the

best cuts in Argentina. Well, a lot of people think that you

can only get a good steak and Buenos, but. Sosa has a really

underrated scene here I've been here before I've had some of

the best steak in the whole country right in the city. We

also got dessert in the form of this multi layered cake with

sticky meringue and chopped walnuts. It was just as good as

it looks.

Then just across the street from the restaurant, we visited

the basilica and convent of San Francisco. The structure you

see today was rebuilt in 1759 after a fire destroyed the

original building today. Visitors can climb The Belfry,

which is the tallest in the Americas. Join a guided tour to

gain access to the stores or visit the basilica

independently.

It has been a few hours we're back in the apartment. We are

eating our dinner. We're having a little but we wanted to talk

about this afternoon a bit first up. I don't think we told

you the price for lunch was just over 2000 pesos, which

right now our current exchange rate is about thirty-five us

dollars. Yup, and it was a lot of food probably more food than

we needed. Yeah. So that's why tonight, we're having a light

supper picnic. Indoor picnic Yeah, a pic, but yeah, we would

highly recommend that restaurant. If you're inside,

it's called gotta go there early because it's very popular

and they specialize in regional food. So then after that, we

visited an attraction right across the street from the

restaurant, the Church of San Francisco, San Francisco. It's

beautiful outside and inside I would say that's probably the

most impressive church in the whole city and you can take

guided tours and. Can also go up the bell Tower. We just

visited the interior quickly on our own. so anyways we we got a

piccata. I got a beer uh beer which I will start and uh yeah,

we're just gonna have a little snack and tomorrow. uh we're

picking up a car. I don't think we're gonna take it anywhere. I

think we're gonna spend another day in Salta Argentina. There's more

stuff to do here but uh the road trip part of the North

starts very soon coming soon. So stay tuned for that.

Well good morning everyone. it is day two here in today. The

plan is to also spend some time exploring the city on foot. We

found a nearby square. It's very nice. very nice. beautiful

construction again. very colonial. a lot of trees that

uh are blooming. it seems like in this city, everything blooms

you know even the biggest trees you see. they have flowers,

beautiful walking weather. It's beautiful. walking weather is

not a scorching hot. We should also mention that we're picking

up a car soon. Yes and we're gonna show we'll show. Whole

process we're gonna be uh basically taking a cab to the

airport, renting a car which we're gonna have for over a

week and it's gonna allow us to do a lot of uh really cool

things for the north.

That morning, we visited the cathedral of Salta, which sits

on the north end of the main square. It's hard to miss with

its pastel pink and cream colored facade. Also, this

particular structure had to be rebuilt in 1856 after an

earthquake destroyed the former building.

We had a nice visit and then it was time to go pick up the

rental car. Update we are back in the apartment. We had a

successful mission picking up the rental vehicle, but oh my

driving in so it'll shake your nerves. I wasn't even driving.

I was the passenger. I was the navigator with my Gps like turn

here over there. Oh yeah and the thing is there's so many

intersections that don't have stoplights and so it's just

you're supposed to the right. The people on the right go

first, but like sometimes people just keep going and they

don't stop and there's no stop signs. It's it's. Yeah, we're

we're we're gonna try to avoid driving in the city. I think

once we're on the highway doing our sight seeing missions, it's

gonna be totally fine. Yeah. That's the only reason we

wanted the car to do day trips and then to travel up to and

it's fine once you're on the highway, but I would not

recommend getting a car for the city just do that on foot. so

something we should mention is that we're basically requiring

an automatic and nobody really drives automatics in Argentina

everyone so we are paying either triple or quadruple the

price. It's 100 bucks a day. It's very expensive. Yeah um

Ouch, but um that's something to keep in mind If you're

coming to Argentina, consider uh learning and practicing

that's the thing because we all know how to drive manual Yeah,

but we are so rusty because that's not what we use at home

and like with this traffic, you don't wanna be installing so we

got automatics and yeah we paid through the roof. Yeah we paid

for the roof for this one. Um the the last rental was wasn't

as expensive. This one is and before we went in. The car we

visited uh the main cathedral. Oh yes. yes, we did we popped

in there. beautiful very nice. very very ornate. very cool.

Yeah. Very elaborate. Also a lot of people visiting well. I

shouldn't say visiting like in the sense that we were. I mean

a lot of people a lot of people coming in to uh like a lot of

people using the church. Yeah, not just snapping photos of the

church. Yeah exactly to see and yeah the altar was spectacular.

I wonder if they're trying to pay homage to the Inca. With

the sun, you know that Golden Sun empty and now we are hungry

and it is time for lunch. It's like two in the afternoon. so

we're gonna go find a restaurant and yeah we just

needed to come back to the apartment park the car and like

relax shake off the nerves shake off the here. We survived

day one. we survived and later on, I think we're gonna go up

that mountain.

And then it was time for another lunch in the city. This

time around, we opted for steaks and pasta. We've arrived

at the cheers. Cheers. Cheers. We got some house red wine

here. Yeah. This one comes in a bulk no bottle. I like it. I

think it's good. Yeah house wine table wine. Yeah. nothing

wrong with this one. So it's going to be our table companion

and we're gonna lick with. And by the end of the meal for

sure, tell us the meat has arrived. look at that. It's

ready to jump on the plate. He wants to get into my once again

in the valley and it's good. It's ready and she has the

pasta stuffed with ricotta ham walnuts and has the cream

sauce. It's very tasty. yum. Yum man come on.

We're doing the godfather over here maybe just uh and you got

the you got the yeah over here. Yeah with a little bit of wine.

That's what we need today you know, but this is the meal of