Tucuman turismo

I had read that Tucuman had some great archecture, and it lived up to the review....

There two buildings are on the main town square .....

Unlike Buenos Aires, most of the city is only two stories high....

 we walked all over the city the first day, and took a break in the big town park designed by Carl Thies...what are those things on this tree?

I know what these things are...we saw a net work of little paths all through the park, and when we looked closer, the paths had been made by millions of red ants ....

We signed on to an outing to see the ruins of Quilmes, and on the way, our guide asked if we wanted to see "the phallic rocks"...of course we said yes....these carved rocks had been found all over the area and put in this little park  to stop the theivery...some were combinations of penises and female genitals....and some had symbols ......no one seems to know for sure what they were all about....

We saw lots of horses and carts in Tucuman, but in the little town with the penis park, horses roamed freely all through town.....

But my favorite town by far that is near Tucuman is Termas de Rio Honda, south of Tucuman..this town has hot springs all through it, with every house having hot water, and lots of public pools of different temperatures...I found this statue on top of the oldest hotel in town, Hotel Roma......

And we paid three dollars  to spend as long as we wanted in these public pools down by the river...there must have been 10 or more pools, all of different temperatures, with different amusements at each one...dave is lounging in the hotest one he could find. 

Another favorite thing we did in tucuman was eat!  and eat hot spicy amazing food!   Tucumaians are very proud of their peppers and chilis, and tamales, and locro.....

next week, the Quilmes ruins and Salta.....