I've just been traveling in the north of Argentina and had planned to log the journey as I went, without thinking about the complete lack of access to technology that I was going to find. So.. here are a few interesting things I came across in Salta:
I hired a bike and rode over 12k in one day. What an incredible feeling of freedom to be out on the dusty roads.
I rode to a winery and found out that they plant rose bushes at the end of the vines to detect early fungus. Then I sat with some people I met from BA and drank some sweet local Torrontes.
This local artesan is carrying on a style of sculpture that his father started 30 years ago. This is his workshop. His figurines sell for quite a lot in town.
I set out on a roadtrip with two girls from Buenos Aires. We drank mate in the car and spoke spanish for days. Lots of people get flat tires on this road so the replacement centres have to be 24 hours. 
On November 2nd it was El festejo del Día de las almas (Day of the Dead) in Salta and Jujuy so all the graves in this stunning outback cemetery have been adorned with colourful paper flowers.
Some donkeys aren't as friendly as you'd like them to be. We had to launch a rescue operation to get our driver back in the car after Attack Donkey turned up.
These owls...
...live in here, and they take turns keeping watch, keeping close to any humans nearby. I don't know why they don't just make their nests further from the road, it'd be less stressful for them.
After too much time in the car I checked into House of Jasmines for some R&R. It was developed a few years ago by Robert Duvall and his wife, and it's absolute heaven.
I felt quite at home among all the gum trees. The spa was amazing too, and you could choose any table in the house to have your meals at... nice.
Well that's it.. I'll have to go back another time to see Tilcara and Pumamarca.
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