Going north of Argentina

After coming back from Peru last week, I had a break in Buenos Aires, Argentina to prepare the second part of the trip. The goal is to travel first north to reach La Quiaca at the Bolivian border and then follow the road 40 to the south. This road follows basically the Andes. I will use it as main road but will also try to see what is around it. I will also meet some friends in two weeks and do part of the travel with them so that we will deviate (quite a lot) from the road 40 to see majors attraction (more to follow).
So today I left Buenos aires with the idea to reach as fast as possible some nice northern cities. The first 200 km out of Buenos Aires are just terrible to drive, but it is a good training to remember the basic rules of driving here. After having been in India earlier this year, at least argentine respect some rules.
It is all about who gets the priority.
Rule 1: Priority depends on the size of the vehicule. Trucks go first, then buses, 4x4, cars, motorbike. In the city, buses and cabs share 95% of the priorities.
It looks like that outside Buenos Aires, the portenos (habitants of Buenos Aires) feel they always have the priority. This creates some crashes!
Rule 2: Pedestrians have no priority: they are not a vehicule
Rule 3: Animals have priority only (and therefore better considered as humans) if they can damage your vehicule. A cat against a car has no priority. A sheep has! The same sheep may not have it against a truck.
Rule 4: lines on the road are purely informative.
Rule 5: If a truck wants to signalize that you can pass him, he puts the left turning indicator on. Not the right one like in Europe!
Rule 6: If someone flash lights, it is not to say hello or to warn for the police. It is to check that you are awake. So you need to answer!

Going north of Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina, Argentina