Argentina Travel Blogs - Page 4

Today while out and about, we stumbled onto Tierra Santa and I was thrilled as this religious themepark was on my list! We stopped to chat with the sheppard and their sheep. It was closed so we took photos from the fence, really that was close enough.For lunch I tried the typical blood sausage and …

It's about Argentina, started in Buenos Aires, then Peninsulda Valdes, El Calafate, Torres del Paine in Chili. Then we went to the most southern city of the world, Ushuaia. Our last stop was a visit to the spectacular Iguazu falls at the border of Argentina and Brasil.

Up early to get to walk to border crossing and try and hitchhike our way to Salta.  With a budget of $320 between the 4 of us to undercut the bus, we were trying for a joint passage of $100.  Far too easy as Chris succeeded in getting passage for all 4 of us with a convoy of trucks going …

Clean and fun crowd hostel, wild pubcrawl in Buenos Aires. Then fly to Uruguay for two nights. Driving around the costal road from Montevideo to Punta Del Este, where jetsetters from Argentina and Brazil come in for summer months and party, party, party. Punta del Este is like a glamorous resort with impressive modern high rise hotels and appartment blocks right on the beach front.

Though we set no alarm, we were up at 7:30 and had breakfast on 17. We waited until shortly before 10 so the shops would be open, then headed for Avenida 9 de Julio and turned right. After several blocks, we crossed to the center to take pictures of this fabulous avenue. I stopped at an Internet pl…

Arrived into Buenos Aires very bleery eyed after an early morning flight on three hours sleep. We had a great night last night so I can´t complain too much. We got to the hostel which is a lovely house just out of San Telmo and were immediately told to head down to the Sunday San Telmo markets whi…

Well what can we say about Barriloche???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? We were there for about 13 hours and we slept for about 6 of those, but it seems like a nice place!!!!! actually it was great, we got to the bus station about 9 at night ,and after realising …

Started my trip in my hometown Cordoba. Took a 10 hr bus to Mendoza, well known for its great variety of wine, specially Malbec; from there a 12 hr bus to Bariloche. Then flew to the Glaciers National Park in Calafate. Couldnt get an airline ticket to The Southern most city in the world, Ushuaia, so I took another bus for 18 hrs to get there. NOT RECOMENDED! From there, back to Calafate, back to Buenos Aires for a day to visit some friends and back to Cordoba.

The perfect way to avoid the cold, rainy and short winter days of the Netherlands, is to fly to the summer. It only takes 14 hours of flight time (2 hours for AMS-MAD & 12 hours for MAD-EZE) to be in Buenos Aires. But if the captain would have turned back halfway, and flewn back to Madrid, I ma…

We did expect to leave for Uruguay today but woke up and decided sleep sounded so much better. We went to the offices where the ferry leaves to buy a ticket but we would have to wait forever until we got served and a guy told us to do it online anyway. Shame that the only ferry available is at mid…

Our flight gets in about 9am, we were picked up by the tour agents, and taken to the hotel. We had a city tour in the afternoon, where we visited a cemetery/park, Evita Peron's tomb was here with lots of fresh flowers. We also toured a neighborhood where it's famous for tango dance halls, and color…

Well it was an ordeal getting here and it's turning out to be an ordeal leaving but I have to say we have absolutely loved spending time in Buenos Aries.The city is huge but the civic planning is a marvel with wide open roads (inc the world's largest - 16 lanes!!) and tons and tons of parks. It al…

My first trip outside North America... and completely fell in love. I'm going again this year. There's just so much to see and do in Argentina!

Pre-Antartica Trip Trauma - Did we miss the boat?   A week before we were due to start our trip to Antartica we realised that we had still not heard from GAP (who we were going to be travelling with) as to whether all of our warm ski gear, that my Mum kindly sent to their office back in…

My grandmothers house was in a world of it`s own, large with a an endless amount of rooms to play in. Some were scary, like the one my grandfather died in, it was always freezing- others were forbidden areas like my grandmthers. It's the room were everything evil was left outside and even better fu…