Unintentionally wore this dress that pretty much camouflaged me in the amphitheater’s rock formations. You can see me, right? •• Northern Argentina is something else. It’s the place to rent a car and road trip to jagged mountains, forests, vineyards and salt flats. It’s a place where the routes are equally as important for their vistas as the major destinations. Where lush green forest rams up against the red rocks and cracked desert, which just a few hours west becomes the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth. Where the strong presence of indigenous Andean cultures and pueblos torpedo the erroneous foreign (and for some lighter Argentinians, domestic) idea that Argentina is a country of white Europeans founded on mostly empty pampas. •• Rarely in a region have I seen such a diversity of everything: landscapes, cultures, architecture, lives. It might be the most under appreciated region of Argentina. So visit! . . . . .