Tamales are typical foods that have corn and pork wrapped in leaves of chala. The locals are very friendly and enjoys taking the tourists to enter a store purmamarqueño is a whole new experience, after exchanging greetings the owner of the establishment and their families each uno.Generalmente on the desk are stacked bags of leaves coca. The coqueo "as it tells the act of chewing the leaves, is a technique inherited from the aboriginal ancestors still used by villagers to resist hard days work or to accompany the drinks in the evening meetings.
Since time out of memory, coca leaves were in the rites of the Inca people. The coca (who chew coca leaves) is called a bolo with them acuyico (mask) and place it between the cheeks and jaw, leaving it there for hours, causing extensive salivation. The sheet should not be split or crumbled, they tangle with the language, one above the other, methodically. In northwestern Argentina, especially in Jujuy and Salta, there are numerous followers of this gentle alkaloid, is used to combat sleep, hunger, thirst and fatigue.
Tourists buy them out of curiosity or to avoid pointing a loss of oxygen caused by the height. Mate It is in places where youth travelers (from any corner of the country and the world) are grouped around a guitar and takes place round mate, typical drink based argentina yerba mate, which, according to experts, not should have much or as little stick, and whose container is a container of pumpkin or wood, cylindrical in shape and slightly flared at the base. Drink with a bulb that has a small metal filter at the tip and placed into the mate.
Seconds before the break the boil, the water must be removed from the fire and it can be "prime" (serve) the mate, from hand to hand, respecting the shifts. What to buy Omaguaca pottery: vases shaped like faces of bulls, or male or fe