I am concerned that Salta does not become the New El Calafate and lose its soul to tourism. The glaciares are astoundingly beautiful but the town and the infra-structure is ruined because of the rush to cater to the masses of people anxious to snap a photo in front of a famous sight.
Visiting a special place in the world is so much more than snapping a photo. An excursion is so much more than stopping the bus at the same point every day and lining up visitors to snap at the same vista - usually when the light is all wrong anyway.
In El Calafate it is impossible to travel anywhere without using the middle-man excursion agency and in some instances Salta and Jujuy are becoming this way in that the tour agencies offer the same standard bus trips with too many people, all stopping at the same 'famous' sights.
In this case it is our intention to simply go further away with a small group, searching our adventure and solitude without damaging our environment
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