Argentina Travel Blogs - Page 7

We started and ended our trip to Argentina, that incredibly large and diverse country, in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is well known as the 'Paris of the Americas' and indeed has a very European feel to it. In this it is very different from other South American cities such as Lima and Quito. Bu…

After the high of Torres del Paine, I headed off north, into Argentina. I was glad to get out of Chile, and anxious to get to ARgentina, and experience the steak, wine and friendly people which everyone talks so highly of.First stop was El Calafate, a patagonian tourist mecca. Deciding this wasnt f…

Three weeks in Argentina and it feels like we have barely scratched the surface of this amazing country.    There is so much diversity in its landscapes, people, cities, and things to do - and it can all be explored whilst eating fantastic food and drinking g…

I just took the 3hrs flight back to Buenos Aires. 2hrs later, I will take a night bus to another city Mendoza where it is a famous red winery. In Argentina, air flights is very cheap and compatible with the bus ticket sometimes. Coz of this, I decide to skip some cities in the south and move nort…

My first destination in South America

Here are some pics of my many trips down south.

Ahh…Argentina, the land of the gaucho, the land of beef. What better place in the world than to dine and to dine in style, especially provided that the exchange rate that for North American guarantees the highest quality meals for prices a third of those in the United States. Though my four weeks…

On this trip, I again only had a weekend to spend in Buenos Aires, so this time I decided to stay in a gorgeous B&B outside of the city in a quaint town called San Isidro.  All I did was eat dulce de leche and drink Malbec with my friends, in betw…

We arrived at Mission Beach in the evening with the one and only purpose of jumping out of a plane to our death, with someone qualified (and hopefully a parachute) strapped to our back - yes we were going skydiving!  The jump was to take us up to 14,000 feet and we would free fall for a whole …

The last few days of my trip I just stayed around Buenos Aires, strolling round town. However I did treat myself to a leather jacket. I went to a factory outlet shop called Bettina Rizzi, 547 Paraguay Street (www.bettinarizzi.com. tel: 4313-5307), which produced a tailor made very soft leather jack…

This was a pretty 'normal' week in Buenos Aires.  There aren't any exciting stores which is perfectly fine by me.  I have settle into a routine of getting up most mornings to run or lift.  This is followed by my toast and juice for breakfast.  I always head the the same cafe at …

One of the first desserts in Buenos Aires was a chocolate cookie filled with ¨dulce de leche¨. I am one of the "sweetest" people I know (HA!), that is in the sense that I really love desserts. I get this wonderful trait from my father, who always has to finish his meal off on a sweet note. Anyway…

Merrily merrily merrily you will plunge too your ultimate death.... Well gang have left the bright lights of Rio and have stumbled upon the mesmerizing specticle that are the Iguazu Falls! This is like the end of the world people, where someone has pull the plug!  While big black birds …

            We learned this past Friday that traditionally, when dancing tango or milonga, men have a special way of asking women to dance.  Our professor informed us that when the man spots a woman who he wishes to dance with he looks…

Things I learned from the trip:   1.               In this “globalizing” world, language can be someone’s biggest asset or biggest crutch.           &nb…