Argentina Vacations, Argentina Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Argentina Vacation Guide

You’ll probably arrive in Argentina via Buenos Aires, where the cosmopolitan inhabitants invigorate visitors with trendy galleries, lively bars and tango, tango, tango. Huge steaks and skillful soccer each have their place too, as does literature and the long-held traditions of a complex, raunchy city, all of which serve to stir up the same passion in visitors that locals seem to take for granted. While Buenos Aires is undoubtedly the cultural hub, Córdoba is almost as funky, with contemporary galleries mixing with trance DJs and ancient Jesuit ruins, and tiny mountain villages to be found just up the hill.

In ‘wine country’, Mendoza’s laid back day time attitude and ‘place to be seen’ nightlife combine with the inevitable vineyard tours to make an Argentine must see, where plenty stay long after they’d planned to. Carolina is a more rustic town, with ancient caves plastered in rock paintings and the remnants of a long-passed gold rush. Dirt roads and faded stone houses give a real ‘step back in time’ feel.

To the south, the fierce lands of Patagonia are like entering a world without people: immense and untouched, with spiky peaks, enviable plant life and a night sky unpolluted by city lights. At the Reserva Faunística Península Valdés you can get up close with splashing whales, or watch icebergs crumble into the sea from the Glaciar Perito Moreno, which advances at a hasty 2 meters per day. Parque Provincial Ischigualasto – or ‘valley of the moon’ – is another Argentine wonder, draped in twisting rock formations and dinosaur bones slowly revealed by the passing of time.

Other natural attractions include the ski resorts and hiking trails of the Lake District, and the deafening roar of the Iguazu Falls, where you’ll be soaked in the gentle mist that covers the surrounding hills and Brazil and Paraguay are just a short hop away.

Combining cities with an almost Parisian sense of style, and varied natural wonders spread across the length of half a hemisphere, some visitors are so captivated by Argentina they never leave. With its colorful culture and undeniable passion for life, it’s easy to see why.