“In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life.” Ameen Rihani The last part of our road trip took us north of Salta towards the Chilean and Bolivian borders. While we were still in […]
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Postcard from Salta
Coming from Buenos Aires, Salta feels like a small town out in the country. The downtown part of the city is fairly small, but it sprawls out over a large area and is home to more than a million inhabitants. The streets are very busy- beware of cars, buses and religious parades! Notable is the […]
Salta Road Trip, Part 3
“But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself.” (Father Dioscuros) Every day we spent driving through the desert we spectacular and the drive from Cafayate back to Salta was no different. But I think this day surprised me the most with the sheer difference each […]
Salta Road Trip, Part 2
“The desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.” (Paulo Coelho) We didn’t know what would be awaiting us as we started out the next day to drive from Molinos to Cafayate. It seemed the landscape changed every few minutes. […]
Salta Road Trip, Part 1
“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.” (Jean Baudrillard) The desert will always have a special place in my heart. I love the colors, the air, the plants and animals, the natural formations. Many think there isn’t anything special to be found in the desert, but I disagree. Sit, […]
Postcard from Buenos Aires
We boarded our night flight out of Zurich to Buenos Aires via São Paulo on a cool and rainy October evening. We wondered what would await us when we stepped off the plane in the monster city, a city larger than an either of us had ever been to before. To kill time we walked […]