Destination Purmamarca Colourful region in Northern Argentina November 2022 by Ravi Chandra Gundakaram Purmamarca is a must-visit destination in Northern Argentina, with its lovely coloured rock formations and cactuses. This post is on the route to Purmamarca, and some of the beautiful sights that you can see in Purmamarca itself. One of the railway bridges that you can see enroute. I didn’t see a train on it, though.. Cactuses on a slope. Huge cactuses, some about 15 feet tall! A cactus flower in bloom. More about this when we visit Parque los Cardones. Another flower, right on top! We see two railway bridges here, almost parallel to each other. Since the engineers constructing the railway line had decided not to have steep gradients in the tracks, the way to go to higher altitudes is to go back and forth in zigzags, parallel to the slope of the hill. A railway line to nowhere (as on date). But I saw work on the tracks in full swing, and people...