Ask anybody about wine and tourism in Argentina and they will likely name Mendoza. But the province of Salta is going head to head with its southern sister, and its excellent wines and growing tourism infrastructure are putting it on ever more equal footing. Things are still more rustic than in Mendoza, but this is something that arguably adds to the desert provinces’ charms.

“We were a group of students who wanted to put into effect our right to communicate. We figured we had the right to emit information as well as receive it, and we couldn’t identify with any radio on the air. So we created our own.” Ernesto Lamas is talking about La Tribu, the Buenos Aires-based community radio station that turned 20 years old on 19th June.

Meat. Meat. Meat. That’s what Argentine cuisine is essentially about, and really, if it ain’t broke, why fix it? Yes, there are many new dining options springing up all around town, from Korean to Indian to vegan to raw (and about time in my mind), but really, when dining in Buenos Aires you can’t beat a big slab of meat with a dollop of chimichurri on top.

San Juan province is often overlooked on the traveller’s map in favour of its more famous neighbour, Mendoza. But if it wasn’t for this province’s capital, the entire course of Argentine history may have been changed. San Juan capital suffered a major earthquake in January 1944, measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale, flattening the city and leaving some 10,000 dead.