Yesterday, Day 67, was a local bus trip out to the village of San Lorenzo, a popular weekend picnic spot for Salta's residents. I was quite taken with this ninja-knitted craft shop (pic). Obviously they take insulation very seriously here.
Today was mostly another bus day, taking me from Salta to Encarnacion, over the Rio Paraná in Paraguay. En route, however, I took a couple of hours to explore Resistencia. The Argentinian town is famous for its outdoor sculptures: over 500 of them. It seemed quite a cycling town, as well, and almost every sculpture seemed to have someone on a bike next to it (pic).
A factor in cycling's favour here is the flatness. This part of Argentina consists of endless green plains. Imagine a billard table stretching from London to Rome, but without balls or pockets, or players, and just the occasional humdrum gridstreet town that looks the same as all other gridstreet towns. Sound interesting? Not really? Exactly. The boredom factor clearly affected the model for this sculpture.
Still, Resistencia proved a pleasant, friendly and generous town (people kept buying us bus tickets). And, with its arty aesthetic, it stopped and made me and my fellow temporary backpacker companion think. Specifically, how the cafe bill managed to add up to twenty pesos more than it should.
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