We will be travelling around Cordoba, Salta and Jujuy in the first half of January.
Where can we find out whether a road is paved or not? And whether the road is entirely paved, and which stretches are not? It’s difficult to find it out from Google maps.
Where can I find out whether the road is passable? If there have been floods (especially during the rainy season) or other problems.
Dumb question, probably, but have you tried doing any virtual drives of roads which have been GoPro mapped for google maps in street view? It looks like quite a lot of them have been mapped for this.
Around Salta, in the mid 2010s the only main highways that were entirely paved were:
Gravelled roads are OK in dry conditions, but never exceed 45 mph - I learned this the hard way in Chile (no damage or injury, but I was lucky).
Argentinian drivers are a bigger concern! Lots of dangerous overtaking. Thankfully, traffic is light.
Most other roads had unpaved sections, or were unpaved altogether. I doubt that much progress was made.
Wow, Kathy. Nice response calling the OP's post dumb. Clearly not everyone is an experienced traveler and knows all the tools like you do.
I believe Kathy was saying that about her own question TO the OP, not the OP's question.
Exactly! She did not call the OP’s question “dumb”, only her own. (In other words, suggesting that the solution of “driving” the roads via Google maps might already have occurred to the OP).
I stand corrected. I misread the post. Apologies.
Thanks Lola and Nigel. It was indeed my own question I wondered if the OP might think was a dumb one. Given I know few if any people intrepid enough to go road-tripping in Argentina (Good for them!) I figured it was more possible than not that they'd already used the street view, virtual drive google maps function but it didn't hurt to ask?
I'm not as well traveled as so many others on the RS forums, and would never belittle someone else's questions. Heaven I knows I'll have plenty of my own on the next adventure into the (for us) Great Unknown!
Editing to add: apology cheerfully accepted, Wandering Nurse. :O)
