drove through the windiest roads yet through amazingly varied landscape (flat plains to lush mountainous jungle to dry desert valley) to get to this cute little town..... (if you are gonna come here sal be warned!!! had to recover from travel sickness for half a day). place we were staying had a couple of resident dogs...... rubio and moreno.......

After a long bus trip from Mendoza, we were ready for a break and a short day hike. The short day hike up a nearby mountain turned into a 9 hour odessey through clouds, cow pastures and later on a torrential downpour. You could see that the beef was definitely organic and good at mountain climbing. We also found the best cheese in the country he...

Tafi del Valle is about 4 hours west of Tucuman and is my first town in the transition to the altiplano. Tucuman, at an elevation of 450 m, was humid and slightly tropical (in the 16 hours I spent there) with orange trees lining all the streets. The bus journey was entirely uphill to Tafi. On the way we passed through the cloud forest zone which...