We raced up Ruta 40 like mad men to the southern shores of Lago Buenos Aires to join the annual Cherry Festival, held at the apparently sleepy border town of Los Antiguos. To be honest I’m not sure what we expected but it turned out the festival is more about booze and gaucho rodeo than cherries. We arrived in the early evening to a small town literally stretching at the seams. The municipal and makeshift campsites were already rammed full […]

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