Argentina Travel Blogs

Salta, Argentina Whoop!
Jul 9, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 me ...

The land before time
Apr 28, 2006 (1 photos)

... 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 them: one ...

Banqueting richly upon units of distance
May 27, 2006 (2 photos)

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
Apr 26, 2006 (5 photos)

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) finger-to ...

Corned beef
Jun 1, 2006 (1 photos)

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 ...

A short story about gloves
May 7, 2006

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
Jun 6, 2006

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
May 9, 2006 (2 photos)

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!
Apr 30, 2006 (3 photos)

... 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.....
Feb 26, 2008 (41 photos)

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
May 7, 2006

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
May 4, 2006 (3 photos)

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 uphill ...

Pina Colada for the cold
Apr 29, 2006 (4 photos)

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
May 20, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 full ...

Cyclist, madman, chef.
May 23, 2006 (8 photos)

... 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 had ...

Jumping the Mountains
May 29, 2006 (9 photos)

... 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 and ...

Revolutionary fervour
May 13, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 sentiments ...

Rehearsing my social skills
May 18, 2006 (5 photos)

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 ...

Stuck in Mendoza
Jul 21, 2008 (7 photos)

... 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 pictures of ...

Route 40
Apr 7, 2005 (11 photos)

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
May 14, 2005 (10 photos)

... 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
Jun 15, 2005 (21 photos)

... 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 its ...

Buenos Aires
Mar 6, 2005 (4 photos)

We have had a busy time in Buenos Aires getting everything in order for our trip, but we are now ready to go. "Ginger", our mascot, strapped to Philsy`s handlebars, is also rearing to go. All that holds us back now is finding a flight to Ushuaia . . . ...

Special Feature: Class 3 questions and answers
May 23, 2005

... the least is 20. Have you ever been bored of cycling? Yes. Although there are a lot of hills and mountains, much of Argentina is very flat. When we cycled 100 miles there were no hills at all, just completely flat from beginning to end, and when the ...

Cutting it close to the bone
May 22, 2006 (2 photos)

I left Rosario mid-afternoon and arrived at this national park in time to see the sun set over the river here. I don't know why they bothered making it a national park, though, as there's nothing else to see. I pitched my sweatbox tent on the grassy ...

A leisurely stroll
May 14, 2006 (2 photos)

... just had a really good day on the bike, I must come clean and admit: I decided to cut out the next bit of Argentina, which took the longstraightflat mode of road to its logical extreme, by getting a big old lump of diesel-powered internal combustion to eat ...

Guidebooks for the blind
May 19, 2006 (3 photos)

... which seemed to consist mainly of parking lots, petrol stations and garages (guidebook: "this is one of the oldest cities in Argentina"), I found a hotel that I recognised from the cheaper end of the guidebook's list. However, it turned out to be far too ...

Five below freezing
May 11, 2006 (6 photos)

... out for that national park. I was rendered suspicious by a bus parked off the road next to a farm gate: I had been in Argentina long enough to know that just because something was a big tourist attraction like a national park, didn't mean it would have a ...

Schleswig Holstein Helga gone missing.
Apr 26, 2005 (4 photos)

I have had enough rest, so on my last day in Bariloche I decide to go on a day trip to pleasant, but touristy San Martin de los Andes, visiting Villa la Angostura and the Seven Lakes on the way. It's a nice enough trip and the weather is just perfect, but ...

Shrines and records
May 29, 2005 (26 photos)

... really wouldn't be cricket and a hot shower was more the ticket. However, hints have been dropped on the way through Argentina to a still disinterested Philsy that perhaps the record could be broken. It's flat in these parts and the roads are good. ...