Cordoba, Argentina Travel Blogs

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, ...

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 ...

A leisurely stroll
May 14, 2006 (2 photos)

My next destination was Cordoba, the second biggest city in Argentina, and a mere twenty miles away - a pootle round the park in my humble estimation, barely worth getting out of bed for and certainly not worthy of me bothering to doll myself up in all my ...

What would you do next...?
Jun 22, 2005 (3 photos)

... world, I thought I would probably be in New Zealand by July 2005. That's eight days from now, and I am still here in Argentina, realizing that it's a possibility I won't make New Zealand at all on this trip (don't worry you Kiwis out there, I'll come visit ...

Crash parties, not bikes
May 10, 2006

After the night sent from hell, I awoke feeling right as rain. Things had obviously come to a head: I had fought my D-day. There had been casualties, but it was the deciding battle and I emerged victorious. Take that, pesky gas-manufacturing bacterias, I ...

Not the only one
May 8, 2006 (2 photos)

... time in the accursed Villa Dolores, to head up what according to my guidebook was "the least developed valley in the Sierras de Cordoba for tourism," which leads me to wonder what the others are like, since there was a hotel about every two metres. My ...

San Juan
May 14, 2008 (3 photos)

... may have only been there for six hours but it deserves an entry in itself. After an uncomfortable nine hour bus ride from Cordoba, we got to San Juan at 8am. We just missed a connecting bus to our destination, St. Augustin by thirty minutes, so ...

La cumbrecita
Dec 3, 2006 (8 photos)

After a short stint in the town of Cordoba we headed off the beaten track to La Cumbrecita. La Cumbrecita is a small mountain side village surrounded by waterfalls, rivers and pines. Unlike Buenos Aires, La Cumbrecita is a pedestrian only village with ZERO ...

The time is ticking away....
May 24, 2005

... May 25th 2005 Get up for once and catch the nice local bus to Alta Gracia, a small town about 40km away from Cordoba. Its revolution day today, so some streets are closed, its very busy, and there are parades and speeches etc, all to celebrate the day ...

Cordoba
Jan 14, 2007

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La Cumbre
Jan 15, 2007

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Gualeguaychu,St Antonio Areco,Rosario,Cordoba
Jan 21, 2007 (19 photos)

... step down from Buenos Aires Cordoba, our next stop, and with a population of 1.3 million people, is Argentina's second largest city. After pleasant Rosario, Cordoba didn't impress us as much, though there are a few good things about the city. In ...

Cordoba, Argentina
Oct 5, 2008 (22 photos)

... ?" I asked. "Oh.  We call them Hippies" Got it... thanks.  Next up: Mendoza - the heart of Argentina's wine country and back to the Andes. Argentines are addicted to a drink called matte.  It is an herbal tea ...

Cordoba.... another destination unplanned
Jul 15, 2008 (6 photos)

... could possibly need (rivals first class on a plane), whiskey, wine and a hot meal! not what i expected. We then arrived in Cordoba..... what did we do in Cordoba  -> not much!  and it has been really really good, not to rush around, no ...

Is "Death Road" really that dangerous?
Dec 23, 2008 (24 photos)

Through our travels in South America we heard mix reviews on Death Road with some travellers telling us that it was insane to consider doing this as the road it not fit for cycling let alone driving to stories that said the trip was over rated and not ...

Bored-oba
Nov 7, 2006 (37 photos)

... German town - good thinking. In summary, Cordoba and Villa General Belgrano? Holes. In the ground. Contour lines on a map of Argentina would probably reflect this. So, to the Top 5. By now, you may have realised that I don't have the greatest ...

Cordoba
Dec 1, 2006

Cordoba is a small University town with lots of amazing Steak houses. Other than that......well......ITS HOT HOT HOT. Northern Argentina in the summer was even too HOT for my blood and we decided to keep traveling after one hot and sticky night.

Cordoba
May 9, 2008 (9 photos)

... of San Juan.   *** Knowing the locals is useful, you learn the most interesting things! Some interesting facts on cordoba and argentina...(by Michael) Cars can run on gas just like in OZ. Except on a small tank, they can only do, less ...

Wandering the Streets of Córdoba
Jun 23, 2005 (21 photos)

... Latin community is to sit quietly in the plaza for an hour or two, and watch life go by. In Córdoba - the second largest city in Argentina, with a population of about one and a half million - life centres around the Plaza de San Martin. Although surrounded ...

Lots of wandering around in Cordoba
Jul 11, 2008 (6 photos)

... to him I had a bus to catch but that my passport was at my hostel and he sped like a madman through the streets of Cordoba, ran red lights (checking there was nothing coming first of course!) and got me to the hostel... He waited while I ran in, panted " ...

The Long and Winey Road
Jun 6, 2007 (6 photos)

A quick summary of our last days in South America: After another long bus trip arrived in Cordoba, Argentina's second city and home to their first university. Interesting history and architecture but at this point like you I couldn't have cared  ...

Cordoba
Jan 17, 2007

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Che and the Jesuits
Jun 18, 2005 (14 photos)

... 500 cc OHV motorbike on which Che spent several months in 1952 with his med student buddy Alberto Granado travelling through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. How appropriate that the "Che week" activities included a showing of "Motorcycle ...

Being Lazy Again
Dec 18, 2005

What did I get up to in Córdoba? Pretty much nothing. I signed up for some Spanish lessons straight away and drifted into a routine of having a lazy breakfast, having two hours of confusing Spanish and then going for a siesta in the afternoon to relax. ...

The Big Jump
Nov 30, 2004

... , or a big Argentinian barbeque, at the estancia. It was amazing. I am so convinced that the happiest and best fed cows live in Argentina. The meat just kept coming around bit by bit, like yum-cha, and I couldn`t say no! We had a siesta time although the ...

The university town of Cordoba
Sep 23, 2004

My first impressions were I didnt like this place. Having spent two days here I saw nothing to disuade me from that impression. I have learned to trust my instincts since coming here and they havent steered me wrong so far. We will leave today and go to ...

Cordoba
Oct 9, 2003 (2 photos)

... know I´m just rambling but such is the frequency of proudly exposed bulging tummies, I´m determined to come up with a suitable explanation. Cordoba´s sights play second fiddle to its eateries and shops and not until we´d had our fill of the latter two did ...

Cordoba - La Cumbrecita
Oct 9, 2003

... tracks, we arrived in La Cumbrecita tired, hungry, thirsty and dirty. Our first concern was food which at 5:30pm in Argentina is usually an impossibility (dinner is normally taken at about 10:00pm). Fortunately the second place we tried took pity on us ...

Mendoza - Cordoba
Oct 1, 2003

... through various frozaçen concoctions, we joined Helen, a girl we´ve recently met, and took the nightbus to Argentina´s second city, Cordoba. Bus transport here however is the antithesis of its Asian equivalent with luxurious seating and no stopping every ...