Argentina
Travel Blogs from Argentina
Salta, Argentina Whoop!
... i to argentina and so far so good! We jumped on a 11 hour bus from Chile, hit up passport control and jumped into Argentina! Managed to smugle in some sarnies of salami and cheese we had made (no animall products over the border) but for ...
The land before time
... . That´s not a very detailed map, for those of you unfamiliar with the concept of scale. It does the whole of Argentina, and Argentina´s a big country. Does anyone reading this agree with the map makers that a town consisting of THREE HOUSES - count ...
I love penguins....2 Dec to 5 Dec
Thursday 2nd December The sun is shining when we arrive, Katharina is I think more addicted to the internet than I am!, so we spend hours hanging around the hostal and then some time walking around the town. However, there really isn't much to do ...
Banqueting richly upon units of distance
The bargain of my previous stay in Victoria was sadly already occupied owing to it being the weekend, and since after the debacle of Rosario bus station I was in no mood to start hunting around for alternatives, I checked into what appeared to be a hotel ...
Running dry in the desert
After an uneventful morning, I stopped for lunch in a cafe in a little town called Costa de Araujo (where's the Costa?). I was telling the owners about my trip: the wife's jaw dropped to the floor while the husband made the (obviously universal) ...
Tour du Argentina......12-15 Nov
... 340 pesos – nearly £70 – double our previous journey. I think I will spending lots of money on my travels within Argentina. Saturday 13th November Checked out of the hostal only to find that they wanted to charge us for two nights. I was not ...
Gateway to Patagonia.....19-22 Nov
... so the bus was probably the best place to be this time. And so we are faced with another border crossing back into Argentina, the rigmarole of immigration and getting our backpacks off and on the bus again. But the scenery is stunning so worth it I ...
Corned beef
Liebig was a village built by the English, who opened a massive meat-packing factory here, and if you were alive at any time between the 20s and the 70s, then the chances are you've eaten a can of corned beef that started its life in this very place. I ...
I've Found My People
Salta Argentina is lovely - doesn't look like any part of South America that I have seen so far - westernized, European looking and completely lacking that 'south America' feel and colorful images. And.....popcorn and candy apples and my favorite ...
A short story about gloves
A couple of days ago I lost a glove - just one, mind, and just like the map, I had taken them off when stopping for a break, or photo, or the like, and then forgotten all about them. But there was no way I was going back to hunt for a glove that had ...
Smashing photos
Since I had managed to fill up all six of the memory cards for my digital camera due to my trigger happy overuse of the fabulous little machine, Pablo kindly offered to burn the photos onto CD for me so as I could free up some space on the cards. This we ...
What battle rage inside my insides
All is not well again in my intestinos: last night I must have produced enough gas to heat an average UK home for a year. Whatever chemical processing plant had established itself in my bowels was causing me a lot of pain and I didn't sleep much. By ...
Not THE San Francisco, silly!
... job (yes, I have one!) that against all the odds had managed to find its way to me in the midsts of Argentina via wonderful parents, but a decidely shaky-on-its-feet internet connection scuppered all my attempts at efficiency. On the way to the town, ...
IGUAZU.....
Up in the northeastern corner is a little point of Argentina with a gigantic waterfall. And in the truly sweltering heat, we explore the falls and the park around it. The pictures are self-explanatory, but can in no way convey the ...
It never rains, but it pours
Now I've got diarrhoea! Lending an extra level of truth to the aphorism "it never rains, but it pours"*. Despite travelling through Africa twice, I've never before had to suffer this particularly unpleasant ailment, and had therefore managed to convince ...
Riding a wind-up toy
Today I came to understand what my guidebook meant by "undulating terrain". Rather than the mile after mile of blissful downhill that I fully believed I deserved after yesterday´s steep, rocky and winding climb, I was treated to the following: short ...
Cheaper Than Jenny Craig
Cheaper than Jenny Craig? So, two realities…..South America has made me very fat and to top it off, I am very unfit. I have lots and lots of excuses but I will give you just the top five. 1. No fruits and ...
Pina Colada for the cold
My night at the Nacional Park whose-name-I-dare-not-speak turned out to be fairly eventful, as I was subjected to not only fierce winds but, more surprisingly, rain! The wind was more of a concern, however, and as I lay trembling in my tent, praying for ...
Full up
... elsewhere. The next place was smilier, but full. "Full? How can this be?" I ordained. "Everywhere I have ever been in Argentina has been completely empty! Everyone is staying indoors out of the 'cold' Argentine winter! How can somewhere be full?" But ...
Cyclist, madman, chef.
... by a nearby monastry, to purchase a jar of its renowned prize-winning monk-made dulce de leche. My next destination was Rosario, Argentina's third largest city, and home to a man called Pablo Chufeni, a friend of my relative Anita in Uruguay, who I ...
Jumping the Mountains
... I will be returning to the US on August 6th, having changed my ticket. When Santiagüinos hop on a bus and travel to Mendoza, Argentina, they do it for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it's a heck of a lot cheaper there (especially for beef ...
Revolutionary fervour
... very interesting musuem. Exhibited therein was the bicycle he used on his first trip (before the motorcycle diaries one), through Northern Argentina at the age of 22. Was this a coincidence, or was it a sign that I would start nurturing Marxist ...
Rehearsing my social skills
I arrived in Miramar on Monday evening to find the tourist office closed, but fortunately, no dearth of cheap accommodation options on the seafront. I chose one mainly at random, that turned out to be bargain of the century, run by a fellow with a ...
Feliz Ano Nuevo
... a kiosk where we were stamped out of Chile by one border official, took a step to the side, and we were stamped into Argentina by another border official. Our luggage (which had not gone up in flames thankfully!) was put through the x-ray machine by the ...
To The Land of Fire...Tierra del Fuego
... one.....13 hours from Puerto Natales to Ushuaia, including the 2 hours that it took to cross the border from Chile into Argentina...what a joke! The most interesting part of the journey was the crossing on the ferry over the Straight of Magellanes into ...
Stuck in Mendoza
... nothing to do! We had a BBQ Buffet the other night.... the most meat i have ever eaten in one sitting i think ....apparently Argentina is famous for its BBQ´s and Steak..... Me and Zoe ate soooooo much meat i hurt afterward, i have attached a ...
Route 40
Route 40 is infamous around these parts (and farther afield too it has to be said) for its emptiness: rightly so. This was not a stretch that we were looking forward to as we knew that it would be virtually all 'ripio' (gravel-type roads), there would be ...
The road to Mendoza
... enable us to cover a lot of ground on good roads, as well as give us the opportunity to see another part of Argentina. We were assured that the road between the lakes and Neuquen was flat: after a particularly steep 8-mile climb we weren't entirely ...
Reflections on Argentina
... and a toad there. We have been privileged to see and experience the ever-changing landscape of this extraordinary land. We like Argentina. For the geologists amongst us And so we came into Salta, a once-wealthy, gracious city that retains much of ...
Spanish - Spanglish...oh jeez I'm confused!
... ! Yes, I am speaking from experience here, and yes, Kevin did have go mental! Anyway, Dulce de Leche is so popular here in Argentina that they have Dulce de Leche ice-cream, which of course we felt obliged to sample, Dulce de Leche biscuits called ...

