The Urban Sketchers Symposium in Buenos Aires enabled me to visit South America for the first time in October 2024
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| Plaza de Mayo - BA |
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| La Bombonera - BA |
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| Fletes - BA |
The Buenos Aires metropolis is home to a third of the national population and the other cities are quite remote
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| La Boca - BA |
As a mountain lover, most of the
destinations I had selected were natural sites located in mountainous areas from the Capricorn tropic to Tierra de Fuego
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| Long bus ride |
I boarded a coach to take me directly to the northern province of Salta, on a direct but very long 22-hour daytime journey
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| Salta's Cabildo |
In Salta I realize I'm in South America: Spanish colonial architecture, Andean folk street music, tropical heat, vegetation and exotic birdsong
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| Tilcara's bus terminal |
Tilcara in Jujuy province is a 3.5-hour bus ride away, a small town of adobe houses in the altiplano
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| Hostel Tierra Andina |
This first day of visiting and sketching this charming place ends with this vintage Chevrolet pickup in front of my hostel
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| Uquia |
I spend the day after in Uquia, a village reknown for la quebrada de las señoritas, an incredibly colourful rocky gorge shaped by the winds
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| El Hornocal - Humahuaca |
The next day, I head for Humahuaca and la Sierra del Hornocal, known as the mountain of 14 colors. This sketch is the highest I've ever done, at 4300 m above sea level. I'm running out of oxygen to gallop up the slope as usual.
To be continued…