tucuman is capital of the provincia de tucuman, a town like mendoza, just erm... green. i was told its the jardin de argentina, the garden. well, when arriving at the busterminal you wont see much green. but better than green, what i found there was laurine and her friends from france, lea and natalie :) so from there on it was me and three french. whod ever believe that? haha by now i can swear in french, lets see what else i can learn.
aaand the girls came up with some more ideas, one of them quite brite id say. we rent a car. a three-door volkswagen, shiny white jumper. not actually the jeep thingy youd need for off-highway in argentina, but how do they say here es lo que hay :)
besides that they had an idea what to do! thats what i was missing, what im generally missing i think. so we entered the car, me, three french, four huge backpacks, two cds of cumbia, one travelguide.
ruta 40
primary objective is reach salta, via ruta 40 through the mountains. ruta 40 is the famous panermicana, which starts somewhere in alaska and goes down to tierra del fuego in patagonia. but just that it got a name doesnt mean the route is something.. serious? well it is serious, for the thousands of travellers that go up and down the two americas. and aswell its a serious challenge. but its not a highway. its not actually a street. route just wants to say.. there is a way.
and i thought the guy of the car rental is kidding us when saying "like ten kilometers from there the asphalt ends". well he was right. the next three days we should manage ourselves on dirt roads :)
upcoming stories: mollares, tafi del valle, amaicha, catarata de amaicha, ruinas de quilmes, cafayate, quebrada de cafayate, san carlos, angastuco, molinos, cachi aaaaand salta.
a lot to tell, we were quite active these days
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