Tucuman
there is a nice cathedral
And on the central square (plaza) there is a statute of Lola Mora. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Mora
Lola Mora was born here, and she was the first woman artist recognised in Argentina. She was wearing trousers - a rebel at that time. This statie represents some words of the national anthem, where they speak of breaking the chains.
Actually, all the argentinian (and probably other cities form this continent) are the same. Cintia, an architecture student explained us why. The Spanish arrived fast and they had build, kill, construct vereything really fast. So they had what was called the "plan de indios" - indios of course because of the famous mistake of seeing indigenous folk of India. In plan the indios, a city had to have a central market palce (square shaped) with a church and the cabildo (the municiplaity building, nowadays a lot of times the tourist information). The square was supposed to be exactly in the middle of the city so there were always uneven number of streets around it. something like this:
http://www.ruizmorenorentacar.com.ar/Plano%20SM%20Tucuman%2003.JPG
This square patterns allow here everything to be measured in "cuadras". Cuadra is a distance between two streets. So if you ask for the way, it is always something like 2 cuadras straight on, and then 10 cuadras to the right.
We saw open air tango classes - tango is much less official than it is percieved in Europe. Everybody dances with everyone, we have seen a 14 year old guy with a woman of 50...
The man is taking the sound here on the plaza every sunday - and the people dancing and the watchers give some contribution to cover his expenses.
December the 8th is the day of the Virgin. Holiday. This is a very religious region.
We said goodbye to Ivana
Tafi de Valle - a beautiful little toursitic village
You are forbidden to ride the horse :)
We got tired fast and it was cold (in these days, we are around 2000 ms above sea level contsantly). so we went to Amaicha. The road was spectacular - check out teh photos on Picassa
the driver was crazy as always :)
The view from our camping
360 days with sun - they claim the best climate
Attila (which is a common dog name here - in Hungary many guys are called like this - here tehy wouldnt find a girlfriend they told us) was running after the car
The Pachamama museum. Pachamama is something like the whole world, the mother of the world. Manu Chau is singing about her that she is really sad. Pachamama te veo tan triste...
In this region, there are a lot of indio traditions. It is strange, indio is everything indigenous, there are no tribes, not anymore. Now in Cafayate we stay in Dani's house, he hates the non indigenous here more or less. There is a lot of discrimination. I will tell you more about this when i have understood it better.
To Quilmes we hitchhiked. Two women who were hiring a man for a week, took us. It was great day, with a free tour in the mountains.
Quilmes was the tribe and city which resisted the most the Spanish here. That is why they were punished the most - 2000 of them had to walk on foot till Buenos Aires. 400 arrived. Now there is a place in Buenos Aires which is called Quilmes as well.
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