Salta, Argentina. This is one underrated desert city, here is why. 🇦🇷
When I first arrived in Argentina, I spent one week in Salta City. Here is why I enjoy it and highly recommend it.
The purpose of this publication is for me to give you guys my top recommendations based on my own lived experiences. I’m a picky traveller and not one of these painful travel bloggers who just seem to recommend every single place they step foot in. These bloggers are usually overly positive and just two minutes in their real-life presence would be enough for you to tell them fuck off.
When I first arrived in Buenos Aires, I had to wait one week for this lovely girl I met on Bumble to get workers to fix up the “spare” apartment to a liveable standard in Palermo Soho (the top gringo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires). So, instead of hanging around in Buenos Aires, I booked a 2.5-hour flight to Argentina’s northwestern desert city, Salta.
I wanted to come here because I skipped Bolivia, which I’ve heard has similar scenery. Instead of going the popular gringo travel route from Peru to Bolivia, I chose to come straight to Buenos Aires after 6 weeks in the Peruvian Andes. I was craving some city life and I kept on meeting people who overwhelmingly recommended Buenos Aires (they were right to do so).
Salta is a provincial capital in mountainous northwestern Argentina. Founded in 1582, it’s known for its Spanish colonial architecture and Andean heritage.
Salta surprised me. It was a pleasant temperature (this was springtime, it gets too hot in summer), beautiful old colonial buildings, great restaurants and bars, and it was dirt cheap!