After 3 weeks in Córdoba I finally managed to buy my bus ticket to Salta. Hostel Tango was my first experience of hostels in a good many years and it was quite a change from what I’m used to. When I travelled around Mexico, a couple of years ago, I used to stay in posadas. Which in my experience where used by the locals to have a quickie, or to crash after a hard nights drinking at one of the bars. So it was quite new to be surrounded by fellow travellers.
I chose Tango because on the website it said it was great fun. This turned out to mean they play the music very loudly almost all the day. I got used to it after a while. Besides that I had a good time there. The food was very good, one of the guys had a playstation so we got to play games and watch some rented movies. And there a very good bar just over the road. All in all an excellent place to stay if you want to visit Córdoba, Argentina.
Leaving was an experience, not a nice one. The Mercobus turned up late. I asked the woman at the desk who said it was about half an hour late. No problem, I thought. Around the time it was supposed to arrive a number of this company’s buses arrived and chaos broke out. Riot police formed a line in front of the buses and some protesters started shouting at the staff. It was then I discovered that lots of the Mercobus buses had been delayed (because of the protest?) and there was a backlog of passengers wanting to leave. This was made harder by the riot police getting in the way. Fortunately, there was no fighting and after another 10 minutes my bus turned up and I managed to get on. What a relief!
I’ve some good films on the buses in Argentina, unfortunately on this occasion I was subjected to watching, “The day after tomorrow”. Boy, it really does suck!
