Day 61: Hola, Salta

How does a rucksack get soaking wet when it´s in the hold of a coach? And how can you dry clothes in a youth hostel dormitory, an environment in which all previously acknowledged rules about personal space are suddenly non-applicable?

More on hostel life later, because I´ve arrived in Salta and it´s far more pretty than I expected. Made it in time for the Easter Vigil Mass in the beautiful Basilica Cathedral (right).

Three points to note about the Mass, which make it different from any I have experienced in the UK or Ireland.

1. It was THREE hours long and hundreds of people were standing, it was so packed.

2. A nun sitting near the front took photos of the candlelit procession. Is that appropriate?

3. There was a stray dog wandering through the congregation.

THINGS I DIDN´T KNOW BEFORE TODAY:
1. Some dogs are Catholic
2. The "modern tango" capital is considered to be Berlin