Santa Barbara to Buenos Aires, and then some...

There is a large thunder storm over the region we were to ride today.  Not going to ride a dirt twisty in the rain so we've booked an earlier flight and are out of here.  Mire photos to follow. 

Back in Salta. We needed some work on the motos and we're staging for the hardest section of Ruta 40 tomorrow.  Steep downhills and twisties.  

We had been surrounded by storms for the past days.  Weather was great today, as we've ridden to a remote little community called Iruya which is in the far north of Argentina close to the Bolivian border.  The pueblo is 50 km (30 miles) off the highway reached buy a single track dirt road - we forged a small river and a couple streams to get here. Its famous among Argentinos, partially because its a beautiful little pueblo and soo soo remote and difficult to get to.  We're stayi g at the nicest place in town on a weekend at the peak of tourist season and there are 6 guests. Recomended!

German has taken some amazing photos. See his pics and a new video: @gplessen on Instagram 

An uneventful ride of 100 km through the altiplano and around a Salar (saltflat). It had rained the day before and we had to cross several streams and one river - the river was a challenge as the muddy water was rushing and had dormed bars of mud and sand.   After 100 km we hit pavement for the first time and headed towards the beautiful little pueblo of Puramarca where we treated ourselves in an amazing botique hotel.