Humitos in Humahuaca

We arrived in Humahuaca and found our hostel. It was a bit disappointing: the beds were terrible, it was quite expensive, there was no internet, no other guests, and the owners were so old and doddery that I would have had difficulty communicating with them in English, but the didn't speak any. I soon worked out from the lady owner that there were no ruins near to Humahuaca at all. Joanne isn't sure where she got the idea, but it at least meant we weren't so short of time, since there weren't any to see. I think the confusion may have arisen because Tilcara is in Humahuaca province, or something like that. To make matter worse, when we ventured out to find that there was almost no internet in town, the place we found had no USB facilities, which meant I couldn't upload the blog! We were starting to leave civilisation...

Humahuaca

The hostel

Humahuaca

The town was very different from Tilcara, which was an underdeveloped dusty and simple place: Humahuaca is a colonial town, so it has all the usual colonial developments: central plaza, grand town hall, and a grand church; a much bigger place, but much more like lots of places we had already been.

Humahuaca

We had already climbed quite high to get to Humahuaca so the temperature had dropped considerably, which reminded us that we really needed to get some warmer clothes before arriving in Bolivia. And I needed some trousers now that both of my long pairs of trousers had been binned, having ripped open the crotch of the second pair while horse riding (see http://blogabond.com/94912 ). So we went shopping, but there was very little choice and we only bought a fleece for Joanne.

The town seemed to attract a slightly richer tourist than us, so we took advantage of the fact there were to by several nice restaurants and went out for a nice dinner. Never one to miss an opportunity to eat a new species, I ordered llama ham as my starter, which was very nice, and Joanne ordered some tasty humitos.

Llama ham

Humito unopened

Humito unwrapped

written by

The Happy Couple on October 16, 2009 from Humahuaca, Argentina

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

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Yum, yum!

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