Don't eat at the restaurant Ambrogioff in Carlos Paz. It's beautiful with a lovely view, but it's overpriced and has lousy food. My grilled chicken was not edible--dry and stringy on a bed of mushy overcooked vegetables. It was just before quiting for siesta and this was obviously something left warming in the oven a couple hours too long. So they carried it away and asked if I wanted to order something else.OK. I ordered raviolis with four cheese sa...

So far, my favorite and certainly the cleanest town we've visited in all of Argentina. Beautiful, well manicured plazas and an attractive downtown business area are just a small part of it's charm.The hills above offer great para-gliding and beautiful scenery from below. Today was a cloudy, grey day, but we decided to play golf at La Cumbre Golf Club.The home course of Angel Cabrerra and for you non-golfers, he's the Tiger Woods of Argentina and won t...

Salta's a favorite, but we didn't get much time for exploring. Bill and Inga had only one day, then flew out to Iguazu Falls the next, so we spent it going up the tram to the top of Cerro Bernardo. The city has made a beautiful park on the mountain top with an amazing series of waterfalls--Becky, you can get some more ideas, maybe? I can see Jeff now making plans for the tram. 

After breakfast a bird couldn't live on, we had to turn around and head back for Salta. We told Angie we were STARVING, but it wasn't until Humahuaca three hours later, that we got to eat. This is hard country with few services, so when you come, come prepared. Even though these open markets and stalls are operated by very poor people, the streets surrounding them are absolutely immaculate. They are always sweeping and cleaning and keeping their areas ne...

In a spur of the moment decision we added another day to our trip north and headed for Bolivia. Do you know you can walk right into the country? Right past the checkpoints like you owned the place? But first we had to get there.The highway follows the Humahuaca gorge north through some pretty bizarre country (see photos). It's a geologist's dream. It changes from one ridge to the next. I couldn't believe how varied it was. It looks like Arizona in so...