If you wanted to take 10 years or more off your life then it's highly recommended that you take up free rock climbing or alternatively winged suit flying or simply just taking up motorcycling anywhere in Asia !
If a loss of 5 years and losing all your hair is more acceptable then it's highly recommended that you settle instead on hiring a Car in Argentina. Speeding is common.overtaking consists of sitting on someones bumper and then pulling out every now and again to see if its clear, double yellows mean nothing, roads are incredibly narrow with little or no verge and you have absolutely no idea what the road speed limits are even though there are hundreds of next to useless road signs.
Our departure in the dark this morning from Maimara for the 200 km ourney to Salta included all of the above including a few variables just to make the drive really interesting - a low petrol level, numerous police checks, some heavy mist and most importantly a non functioning GPS because neither of us could enter the address of Salta's airport !
While I handled it with my usual due calm by using every expletive in the book. Monika spent a painful hour trying to fire up the GPS with an alternate address.
Eventually we just settled on using my back up option a downloaded offline map on my tablet to navigate to and through the heart of busy Salta to a servo to fill up prior to returning our Sixt Car.
Noticeably aged by the experience it didn't help when I rang the Sixt rep (the only company not on site at the airport) to be told just simply park the car and leave the keys in the glovebox !!!
Just to add a little more spice in the.morning I boarded our Buenos Aies flight to discover my passport was missing - using any expletives I might have missed out on the drive down it eventually transpired that I'd handed it to Monika who'd stowed it without thinking with her carry on !
I figure that with 36 hours in Buenos Aires before flying home I might just use that time to book into the nearest psychiatric hospital for a well earned rest !
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