Djpekingman white_dragon No idea. It's no different this morning. This town, ahhh ahhh, is coming like a ghost town!
Djpekingman Cordoba. AKA Jesuit city. For those of you who don't know at the height of Spanish Inquisition level catholicism they were chucked out of Spain for being too psycho Catholic. Think protestant puritans chucked out of England for being too puritanically protestant. The catholic equivalent of eating raw turnip and sitting on spikes. There are loads of these psycho religious sects/cults all over South America. None as singularly bad as the Jonestown massacre types in Guyana, but not far off.
Djpekingman The demo against yankee imperialist aggression didn't really get off the ground. Given the number of idiot supporters and seriously tooled up dibble to do his bidding it's not really surprising. The national TV stations are currently broadcasting the orange fuckwit's bum slurper in chief grovelling support for the massively illegal actions of the orange fuckwit.
Djpekingman Cordoba to Mendoza. 11 hours on a bus of flat straight nothing until the Andes at the end. Unless you like corn, soy and the occasional cow. Not strictly true - sometimes the soy and corn gave way to unfarmable semi desert scrubland. It's not inspiring.
Djpekingman Mendoza city centre. There were actually some people here. Restaurants and bars were shit though.
Djpekingman Up to about 3000 metres and the Bridge of the Incas (puente de los Incas). A natural stone bridge created by glaciation. The thermal water up there is so full of dissolved minerals that if you leave anything in it, it gets coated by a shell of stone (petrification). The big and mighty mountain is Anconcagua, the tallest mountain in all of the Americas (so fuck you Trump) its just shy of 7000 metres (6967 to be accurate). It is indeed very mighty and still growing. The railway used to run from Mendoza to Santiago but is long closed and fallen into disrepair, like so many South American railways. This one must have been an incredible journey.
Djpekingman And down the other side from the world's most inefficient border crossing towards Santiago. It's known as Los Caracoles (the snails) after the spirals on said mollusc's shell. It consists of some 29 hairpin bends dropping from 3200 metres to 800 in about 10 kilometres. Its pretty impressive.
Djpekingman Arrived in downtown Auckland. No idea what day it is any more. The harbour area is like Benidorm - stags, hens, rugger buggers and the living dead recently disgorged from a passing cruise ship. Downtown is like Bradford - gangs of indian yoof surging around in pimped up and souped up motirs uuntil the earlier hours or arrest. Twoccing is rife. Joyriders all night pursued by dibble. Not what I was expecting.
