Buenos Aires Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals - Page 21

Flying into Buenos Aires you're stunned at how big the city is; it makes you think you're in El Ay, it's so spread out. The big difference is the two hugely wide streets, probably just as wide as the Champs-Elysees (in that hellhole known as Paris) or Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. Anyone care to guess the name of the more important street? Avenue July Ninth! Why is this important? My birthday, of course. (Also Sara Donaldson's, and apparently Tom Hanks'.) Claiming you didn't know when i…

An amazing city, have been here nearly a week and are finding it hard to leave! Buenos Aires has lots of different neighbourhoods each with their own architecture and atmosphere. Central BA is really nice, there are lots of colonial buildings so the streets are really nice to walk along. We went to see the cathedral (of course...!!), Casa Rosada - the pink house with the famous balcony that Evita used, lots of plazas, a replica big ben, and the obelisque which stands in the middle of an 18 …

Politically and economically, Chile has been championed as a beacon of stability and consistency in a traditionally turbulent continent. The temptation for other countries to turn towards Chile’s model in hopes of long-term success is obvious. While from the outside the model might seem easy to implement, countries considering this route should be warned that aspects of this inherently Chilean model may be lost in translation. This is especially true in Argentina, where the historical prece…

       So I’m usually a light packer. I don’t like to take a lot of things because I don’t like to carry around so much weight. Consequently, I decided it was a good idea to ship home my souvenirs that I bought along with some other items that I brought to Buenos Aires that I was not using anymore. Other students had the same idea and decided to ship things home as well. Consequently, I asked one of them for the address of a FedEx store in Buenos Aires. She…

Yes, we call Buenos Aires the city that never sleeps but with consideration to the matter, how are the Argentine’s hours of the day spent compared to the United States?    Let’s analyze the US first comparing the North American version of the city that never sleeps, New York, specifically regarding the matter of dining.  With one glance of a New York City block, the viewer absorbs fast food restaurants juxtaposed to each other with the likely chance of a S…

I loved spending time in Buenos Aires but I don’t think I could ever live in the city for an extended period of time. The reason for this is because I think it would be incredibly detrimental to my health. Before arriving in Buenos Aires, I had not even considered that the air pollution might bother me, but upon arrival I quickly learned that the cities I had been living or spending time in were not nearly as polluted or populated with automobiles. Buenos Aires is a very la…

18 flights in 4 weeks. Buenos Aires, Cusco, Iguatu, Lima, Manaus, Rio, Uruguay, Mucho Picchu.

I stayed in Buenos Aires for a day to get my work visa all taken care of, but after that i got to see the city and it is beautiful. It reminds me a lot of Berlin with a lot of high apt. buildings that have a historic appearance type look to them. The job site was about 90 Km north of Buenos Aires in a town call Campana. I enjoyed every minuet i was there!

JB Boonstra Yesterday I was flipping through Hannah´s tourist book and found what was called a "vintage" clothing store. Of course both Hannah and I knew that vintage really meant used! And used meant cheap! So we got all excited and struck out to find this place. I was impressed when we got there. It wasn´t just a vintage clothing store, but an entire mall of second-hand clothes, from pants to jerseys to sunglasses to jackets. They seemed to have everything! I got real…

Written by: John Winn, Phil Gadomski, and Rachel Benkeser As with all democracies in Latin America in the twenty first century, Argentina was democratically born as a presidential system in 1880 and experienced roughly fifty years of political instability and military rule during the mid-twentieth century. The consolidation of power by the president or other political figures is not an inherently determined flaw in the presidential system; any flaw that exists is in the fine print detail of…

Just wanna say hello to the people we met on the road. Finally we found some really goooooood steaks!

Backpacking from Santiago de Chile down to Patagonia up to Iguazu Falls in 6 weeks

Epica's Mexican / South-American leg of the "The Divine Conspiracy" World-Tour 2008

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA 2003/2004 ¤ I traveled the 27th of december 2003.¤ I was there almost a month.¤ I traveled to a village with CISV¤ I traveled with two boys, a girl and a leader, no parents¤ We traveled from norway to germany, from germany to USA and from USA to Argentina.¤ People in the village was from Norway, Argentina, Brazil, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Colombia & Japan¤ It was my first trip without my parents, and i was 11 years old

On Tuesday, June 6th, Professor Bowman's class took a trip to the United States embassy, to not only meet with the U.S. ambassador himself, but to also listen to the presentations of other foreign service officers. Not surprisingly, all of us individuals needed to pass not through one, but two security checkpoints, one just to enter the embassy grounds, and another to enter the building itself. Yet it is what I encountered (and heard) inside the embassy that concerned me the most, as it seeme…