This page describes a 28 day driving trip across parts of northern Argentina from Jan 23 to Feb 17 2026.

The rough route is shown below – its totalled about 3900 miles.

Although this loots like a lot of driving, Argentina is very large and we have nevered covered any places south of Buenos Aires and probably won’t for various reasons.

This map shows our route compared with all of Argentina:

A few photos, with captions to eventually follow, are shown below.

At one of our last stops for the night we were able to get very close to Burrowing Owls in a community park, One photo is shown below. This is the same species as found in North America.

Some butterflies we saw along roadside “licks” along the dirt road leaving Ecoportal de Piedra. Road was good for wildlife viewing because it was lightly traveled and recent rain had reduced dust on plants and from vehicles. Normally I (Mike) don’t have patience for chasing buterflies to photograph them, but most of these were on rocks on the road cuts and were obviously attracted to seeps that had something they liked. There were dozens to hundreds in some areas. I used a 300mm lens for most photos, that is relatively close-focusing (to about 4 ft) since most butterflies are skittish.