"W(h)ine for me, Argentina!" Coming to Argentina from Bolivia it took us three days to get used again to proper supermarkets, decent roads and fast internet. Those were three enjoyable days. By the time we left Salta, January had started and with it the summer vacation time. From now on we would spend most of our time either riding a bus (and staring at a never ending shrubby plain) or waiting for a bus (staring at whatever moved by). And when we finally arrived at a place, tired from the bus ride, shocked by the crowds and annoyed by the prices we had a hard time remembering why we had come here at all. Our Argentina leg was affected by unlucky timing: wrong year (the prices have doubled since Lonely Planet 04), wrong season (never ever
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