I flew into Tucuman from Buenos Aires after my Uruguay trip. The weather was rainy and cool- a change from Uruguay for sure. The taxi driver talked me through some of Tucuman as we drove from the airport. When he found out I was Polish he told some four times that Pope John Paul II had flown into Tucuman airport for a few hours in 1987.
I stayed overnight in an Airbnb with a lovely lady who spoiled me a lot. She introduced me to homemade humitas. This is a corn and goat cheese mixture boiled in maize leaves, and she had many desserts. We sat and had a chat- I should say that she chatted and I tried to keep up with the Spanish! She showed me her art studio in a separate portion of the house and some of her artwork- it was beautiful.
Being a Sunday I didn’t see much of Tucuman, and the rainy weather continued into Monday. I did visit the sugar museum – Tucuman is the center of sugar cane industry for many decades. It is also the largest exporter of lemons.
I caught a bus to Salta that morning.