Today we head to Salta, in the northwestern region of Argentina. We leave behind the hot steamy jungle (today´s high is predicted to be 31 degress with 93% humidity), and move to higher ground, in the drier foothills of the Andes. Update: On the way to the airport we drove through clouds of yellow butterflies, their wings glinting in the sun.
At first we were flying over wetlands; on the approach to Salta we could see brown hills, then a patchwork of tidy fields in the valley below. On the drive into town we noticed how brown the grass was; it´s extremely dry here - we were told that the smoke behind one hill was from a wildfire.
Photo by Angela (Flickr Creative Commons)
