The Lowdown on Salta, Argentina. May 16th, 2006
Of the many day trips one can make from Salta, San Lorenzo – the most luxurious of the city’s neighboring barrios – offers the fewest headaches in terms of cost, planning and accessibility...
May 16th, 2006
Among the most striking differences one encounters upon arrival in Argentina from countries further north on the continent (the food, the fashion, the accent, the architecture, the overall Europeanness all to be considered among them), the buses rank as perhaps the most obvious...
April 27th, 2006
Of all the Fernet-and-coke-dispensing watering holes and cumbia-blasting dance floors that line both sides of Salta's late-night thoroughfare – the lively Balcarce – Inside Club is perhaps the most crudely pretentious. But therein lies its charm...
April 12th, 2006
The northern city of Salta, capital of its province, is the benefactor of a recent tourism boom, and one may find evidence of this before both feet are even off the bus...
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