Argentina Travel Blogs

Around 1:40pm we arrived to Buenos Aires City. The tour ended in the city. The bus would stop in 2 places. At the French Embassy in Recoleta. This stop was made for the people who wanted to visit the fair and enjoy a nice lunch there. My mom and I were still full from our delicious dinner from …

WOW we have a redeye flight back to LAX. Our flight is at 9pm. We have a layover in Lima, Peru for 3hrs, not very long to hang out to see Yadi (Yadilitta) plus it was at 1am. She would kill me. HAHAHAHA it was very busy in the airport. The line to check in was long. After going through security it …

Steve and I keep finding ourselves back in Buenos Aires. It’s been the hub for all the mini trips we have made in this region, and by now I know the two airports here as well as I know O’Hare and Midway at home. We are back today for one last time, on an overnight before heading to the other si…

I had the privilege of going to the fabulous city of Buenos Aires this summer.  This had been both a dream spot for both me and my dear friend Noah.  We had narrowed it down to three destinations: Germany, Norway and Argentina.  Having recently gone to Spain, we thought maybe it woul…

Yesterday we took advantage of what time we had left at Iguazu and went back to the national park. It was well worth the second visit as there were more trails there to explore and sights to see. This time we took the Gran Aventura tour, which involved a 4X4 guided tour through the rainforest,…

And here we are again, back in the beautiful wonderful amazing city that is Buenos Aires. We managed to time our 2-night visit on the weekend so we enjoyed having a meander around the hippie market in La Boca on Saturday and then the San Telmo Sunday market. Very different to 10 mont…

FIRST IMPRESSIONS For Rio, I noticed the graffiti first.  Here in Buenos Aires, I noticed that all along the side of the freeway there were cars parked on the grass with families gathered around.  They were BBQing, playing soccer, flying kites, and riding dirt bikes in the grass along th…

25 hours after departing KL (and 1-hour stop overs in Joburg and Cape Town) MH201 finally landed at Ezeiza Ministro Pistarini in Buenos Aires at 216PM, February 13, 2008. The sky was a perfect blue and the sun was all out. The sweltering heat embraced me as soon as I exited the airport. The e…

The change didn´t happen as soon as we crossed the border, but after shifting a mere 5 hours south in our (luxurious, air conditioned) Delorian bus I found that I had miraculously travelled forward in time 30 years to the year 2006. Salta is a thoroughly modern city and almost every…

When a steak is over three inches thick, is it still considered a steak? Or half a cow.  We had heard the rumours about Argentinian steaks...and honestly, they are all true. Vegetarians beware, you will be converted if you come to this country. We are undergoing a bit of culture shock at…

Dripped off some stuff for posting and some laundr. THen went for a walk around soem of the twon. A gide in the  Square of ENligenment would have been very intresting but it was all in Spanish, but did see soem pretty old builins and soem fo the secret tunnels under the city. ALso went down to…

KERRY - So after the trip to the mines we decided that we needd to move on to a more sophisticated way of life in Argentina. Bolivia had not impressed us all that much and we wanted to move on. We have since met people who loved Bolivia and thought it was the best country in South America, so we ma…

Wine tasting is a must for any Mendoza experience, and my visit here was not going to be the exception. Since I am no wine connossieur, I decided to take the half day winery tour that included a big winery, an oil factory and a small family winery. The first stop was "Bodegas y Viñedos López" a r…

Today I had a good sleep ‘till 8.30. Like always, Jos was already awake, she was downstairs online. Nice relaxed day for our first day in Argentina. After a good breakfast we walked along the Nahuel Huapi Lake and took some pictures. We found a tourist office. You can do a lot of things here: &nb…

After the late night last night of pool, poker, and pub, I slept in this morning until nearly 11am! Rustling around in my things, I discovered a couple of bummers. Looking at my calendar, I sadly realized that it was LAST night I was supposed to meet David and Eileen at the Dublin Irish Pub.…