Category: Argentina

Street Foods of South America

Street food holds a special place in the whole travel experience but is often a gamble for the faint stomached. To my surprise, most of the street food vendors I came across in South America had pretty clean set up and there was rarely anything alarming. In...

Salta and the Children of Llullaillaco

Salta is a city in the northwestern region of Argentina, known for gaucho, bustling nightlife and the Children of Llullaillaco, the most well-preserved child mummies of South America found frozen at the peak of Mount Llullaillaco.  Gaucho If a gaucho and a cowboy come face to face on...

Tupiza, A Quaint Little Town Full of Surprises

With a population of roughly 25,000, Tupiza is known as the “town where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their end at the hands of the Bolivian army.” From Uyuni where the salt flats are, many travelers will select the route that goes to the Atacama...