Today people set up small, wood boxes with a couple of candles and red silk scarves, and others offer intricate, miniature houses (usually painted red) that are surrounded by used two-liter plastic bottles filled with water. Water is the one common factor in all of the altars and truck drivers are especially devout. Believers travel from afar to certain places, sometimes gathering to more than 200,000.

.Saint Difunta Correa Deolinda Correa’s husband had joined troops in the civil war of the 1840. But he became sick and was left in the deserts of northern Argentina for dead. Word made it back to Deolinda, now a new mother. She decided to take the child and attempt to find him. (Someone had to pay for the child). She wandered the desert following her husband’s brigade, only to run out of food and water and consequentially perished. (A clear result of poor p...

My hotel in Belen, where I didn't sleep last night. That's right I didn't sleep, since they had a festival last night (sth virgen de la luna) with some loco who sang Argentinian folk songs till 6 in the morning. The bass made the windows clashing.

Obsolete type of movement, but other than when two people sit in a car, when you always have a driver and passenger, they seem to be peers sitting on their horses.

Old native pueblo de Quillmes