did in nevada it also reminds me of a place that  we visited in kyrgyzstan oh yeah remember that

jumping pills to plug him up  

well good morning guys and greetings from the  town of Uquia here in the province of Jujuy  

Argentina today we are road tripping again the  plan is to visit two towns Uquia Jujuy and also  

so we're actually heading north yeah  and yeah my dad's already been shopping  

early in the morning we found the market  here in town i got me a terracotta pot yeah  

so this one we're gonna use  to make some beautiful stews  

and lentils and stuff like that in canada  incredible price what 480 pesos yes maybe 70  

bucks something like that seven eight bucks great  deal here right in the middle of the square yeah  

the church is under uh renovation so we cannot  visit but we're going to go up the hill here  

there is a beautiful red mountain yes and 11  o'clock the sun feels like a laser beam on us

half an hour late putting on sun cream  yesterday and he got screwed i got lit up  

now to this morning we were calling him mr lobster  yeah you know and uh yeah i'm not doing so great  

either with the altitude and uh my stomach is just  uh imodium imagine popping pills to plug him up  

okay but uh what can you do you know we  

we plug ourselves uh up and we go out  exploring yeah let's go hiking let's go hiking

so Uquia is a place that we visited completely  by chance this small town is located just off  

the side of the highway between Tilcara  and Humahuaca so it's super easy to get to  

we'd highly recommend stopping here if  you're road tripping in the province of Jujuy  

because as you're about to see the landscapes  directly behind the town are pretty spectacular  

alright guys well here we are exploring the town  of Uquia the main attraction in town is actually  

a 17th century church that has paintings from  the school of Cusco and also like angels holding  

weapons and like all these strange things so  that's typically what people come to see in the  

town however at this moment the church is closed  for renovations so we were only able to have  

a look from the outside and now we have driven up  a few blocks into the mountain to a place called  

quebrada de la senoritas where you have these  incredible red landscapes that remind me so  

much of a road trip that sam and i did in nevada  where we visited um red rock canyon valley of fire  

so yeah it's just stunning sam's throwing the  drone up in the air we're gonna do a little bit  

of hiking and show you these incredible colors  well what do you think of this place you've been  

glued to the camera gosh it's incredible it  reminds me of actually two destinations the  

first thing that came to mind was uh obviously  when we went to nevada two places in nevada  

red rock and uh it was like was it the valley  of fire probably the same thing i was saying  

yeah and the other thing too it also reminds  me of a place that we visited in kyrgyzstan  

oh yeah remember that i remember those red  rocks yeah i'm so bad with names but it's  

just incredible out here and i think there's  only like four or five people visiting  

at the moment it is amazing it's like  you've got this beautiful landscape and  

more or less all to yourself emissions free too  you gotta love that yes so impressions so far

exactly yeah i wasn't expecting something like  this in such a small town the landscape is exactly  

exactly as if you were in a western movie  you know those old western movies with the uh  

cowboys the cowboys and the blue coats you know  the the soldiers of the united states and it  

feels like any minute now someone is gonna pop  up from behind a rock and start shooting with a  

winchester you know repeating winchester or uh i  don't know Jeronimo is going to appear something  

like that it's it's amazing this place i i i  wasn't expecting uh to find something like this  

very very similar to all the southern states of  the us like new mexico nevada arizona arizona you  

know all those places this could be the set for  a film those kind with no problem and nobody even  

would suspect that it was a film in uh Jujuy  argentina you know amazing place really amazing

we then continue driving further north to the town  of Humahuaca Jujuy at this point in the day it was  

already around noon and we were cooking under  the sun so we really didn't spend very long here  

if you're traveling during the warmer months  we definitely recommend going earlier in the  

day or later in the afternoon so that  you can enjoy walking around the town  

rather than desperately seeking shade like we were

on the way back we did stop at this  rather unusual roadside attraction called  

the llama it's impossible to miss because well  there's a giant llama to greet you right on  

the side of the highway this is a market that  sells spices wines jams ceramics and all sorts  

of artisanal products from the region and if  you're hungry you can also get some food here  

well time for an update from the cars where  we actually have shades much needed update  

so we drove for a little while yeah we came to  the bigger town of Humahuaca and it's uh it's a  

bigger town for sure in this region considerably  bigger it seemed quite a bit bigger than Tilcara  

much bigger than puma marca and some of the other  places we went to so we kind of drove around the  

town for a little bit and then we noticed this  gigantic monument that had cactuses and we just  

parked the car i went up with my camera i mean  it's just boiling hot this time of day guys don't  

don't go not even summer that's worth mentioning  don't go out at noon here yeah so i went out and  

i filmed that for a little while uh it was really  interesting square and then i noticed there was  

a little regional museum inside and for 15 pesos  which is oh my gosh that's really cheap maybe 20  

30 cents i was able to go into this neat little  regional museum there was artwork inside there  

were sculptures and yeah just walked around we  didn't explore the town too much again it was too  

hot it's a bit of a bigger town but if you want  to see more there is a famous church to visit yeah  

and it's also the gateway to visit uh uh  mountains exactly but okay let me mention  

is 25 kilometers away from Humahuaca and it's  all on like loose gravel and dirt roads yeah so  

it's kind of hard for little cars to make it up  there i'll tell you what the only we've got loose  

stomachs today so we're not going on loose gravel  roads that's that's that's the final verdict  

anyways we're kind of heading back home we stopped  at this uh this very touristy place there's a  

giant llama we went inside you got some spices  for your mom yeah you want to show us my purchase  

i'll show you the purchase it was one dollar  each i got three different spices look at that  

so different colors don't ask me to name them  they smell nice and it looks like stuff my mom's  

like cumin was one of them for sure um yeah they  smell great and anyways we noticed on the way  

back because we are heading back to our place  we noticed that there is a vineyard a bodega  

and so we're going to stop by and see if we can  purchase some wine from Jujuy we've never seen  

or purchased wine from Jujuy Argentina anywhere  and so it would be a real find if we were able  

to grab a bottle from here either to consume for  an asado or to take back home for one in canada  

continuing with the theme of random roadside  stops we also pulled over at a vineyard this  

right here is bodega viñas del perchel a family  family-run high altitude vineyard and winery  

located just south of the tropic of capricorn  line we met Mabel who showed us around the place

well guys we are back in our little house  here in Tilcara and we have some wines to  

show you because on the drive back we stopped at  a little bodega there are very few bodegas here  

in the province of Jujuy Argentina it's something  that's still starting up slowly very slowly i mean  

high altitude and very little water in  this area but yeah we stopped at this one

but it's a very small uh bodega they only started  doing wine uh manufacturing wines about 12 years  

ago yeah they have about uh 20 20 acres she said  something like that i think 22 acres 22 acres but  

only six of them are planted with vines yeah  with vines and they have a malbec they have a  

shiraz they have uh tannat and i think they have a  little bit of a cabernet sauvignon these flies are  

everywhere the thing is that they only they're all  reserves because they've been uh 12 months in uh  

oak barrels right so they qualify as reserve and  they produce a limited amount of 5000 bottles only  

in that bodega so these wines were not even  ready to be sold she had to prepare them and the  

only one that got fully uh dressed with all the  labels yeah is this one that is the malbec shiraz  

she has all the labels the other two she gave  them to us with uh she put the plastic wrapper  

and she has the uh the backing of the uh because  apparently uh they didn't have the labels uh on  

uh on that spot right uh they were not cheap  bit more high-end yeah a little bit higher-end  

this one has a 93 percent rating yeah okay you  know when it's a limited edition it's a reserve  

for sure you're gonna have to pay a little bit  more and uh well that's it for today and tomorrow  

we are heading not too far actually we're going  to be exploring the town of Tilcara because we've  

been here almost three nights now and we haven't  seen much aside from the restaurant so there are  

some ruins to visit yeah there's a fortress here  it's called yeah and it's only outside town so  

there's not too much traveling to do and then  we're gonna go to the other town that's called  

no my mara yeah you know if you come uh this way  the best is to rent a car to try to do all this  

uh with the public buses and stuff like that  you're gonna go nuts rent a car it's a little  

bit more expensive but you're gonna go to see  places that you thought that uh you could have  

never gone like what happened this morning you  know that little town of uh what was the name  

it's almost uh not posted anywhere you don't find  any information about this little town and it's  

amazing the canyons we saw and you know but you  need a car to kind of uh explore and you know  

get yourself into these uh places that uh yeah  otherwise walking forget it and uh the buses will  

leave you mostly in the main town so learn how to  drive stick because oh yeah we grabbed the only  

automatic oh my yeah it was expensive that was the  only one in the fleet and we played played triple  

for here in south america is uh 99 uh standard the  the cars me i haven't driven one of those in uh  

40 years and my knee is destroyed so the clutch it  really hurts and uh these two will uh i don't know  

i wouldn't want to do it here the last time i  drove one of those was in the the 20th century  

that's it also a little while ago well if you come  from europe or you know over there they still use  

a lot of uh standards but in north america  like the united states canada is mostly 99  

automatic so people from north america  if you want to come and have a cheap  

rental you're going to have to get a standard  if you do manage to drive them well no problem  

if you don't take a few lessons before  you come because also here the driving  

is a little bit uh more aggressive kind of  so it's no place to be you know like i mean  

learning learning online you don't want to learn  on the fly when you have like five cars behind you  

yeah yeah and especially if you're going to pick  up the car in a big city it was uh yeah it was  

hard getting out of salt yeah it was arrogant  automatic yeah and with an automatic you know  

most streets don't have stop signs okay so  remember that here the uh the the sequence goes  

whoever reaches the intersection let's say two  cars reach the intersection at the same time  

the car that is on your right hand side has  priority to go you go to the next one and because  

it's there one way the car is going to be on your  left so you got priority to cross the intersection  

right always the car on the right has the priority  to cross the intersection but don't bank on it 100  

because sometimes you have a card on  your left and you will have priority  

and this guy will shoot through like uh so always  on the lookout and always on uh caution you know  

more advice for you guys there you have  it yeah and with that i think we'll say  

goodbye for today guys yeah we'll see you  tomorrow tomorrow is another adventure

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