Corrientes

Travel Blogs from Corrientes, Argentina

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Cross Country Argentine style, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

Cross Country Argentine style

A travel blog entry by seankervin

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...  have to agree.  These buses feel more like international first class on Virgin Atlantic.  I'm calling them Air-Argentina from now on. The buses are massive Mercedes or Scandia double-deckers and you usually have the choice ...

About prostitutes, big waterfalls and spiders..., Sao Paulo , Curitiba , Foz de Iguazu, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

About prostitutes, big waterfalls and spiders...

A travel blog entry by roel_e

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... thermosflasks with hot water and cups of mate (green tea) everywhere, and religiously keep to the siesta. In the afternoon, Corrientes is like a ghosttown. Poverty mainly shows itself here in the smaller details, like t-shirts and shoes that can be ...

Killing time and bikini shopping, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

Killing time and bikini shopping

A travel blog entry by nancydeb

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From Mercedes we took a bus to Corrientes. We had hoped to get a bus straight on to Salta but got stranded there for the day. Despite there being literally dozens of bus companies, they all left for Salta around six in the evening. It seems crazy to ...

kleine Pause in Mercedes, Mercedes, Argentina travel blog

kleine Pause in Mercedes

A travel blog entry by bauerman

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zurueck von der Pampa sind wir froh wieder etwas Infrastruktur zu haben. Aber aufregend ist die Stadt bis jetzt nicht, obwohl es die Stadt der Gauchos ist. M hat einen ordentlichen Schnupfen von der Bootsfahrt und so haengen wir einen Tag an und relaxen ...

Esteros del Ibera en Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Esteros del Ibera en Colonia Carlos Pellegrini

A travel blog entry by ellenmilton

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Miss Capybura, Collonia Pelligreni, Argentina travel blog

Miss Capybura

A travel blog entry by sarahcolvin

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Idle days in Esteros del Ibera, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Idle days in Esteros del Ibera

A travel blog entry by rachel_john

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... big reptiles red eyes in the torchlight. This little trip was great fun, and comes highly recommended for any potential visitors to Argentina. And I move one notch closer to becoming a bird enthusiast. Costs Bus one way  to Mercedes A$87 x 2 ...

Jab on the bum!!, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

Jab on the bum!!

A travel blog entry by kellyjanebaker

... jab. (One has to look at the funny side! It was hard not to giggle) So between icing my hand I havenīt explored much of Corrientes, and am likely to stay here for at least two days to keep an eye on my nutty professor hand! Typical to happen here as ...

Posados and the ruins, Posados, Argentina travel blog

Posados and the ruins

A travel blog entry by jaceanddave

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... little bars, however our party 6some has decreased to a 4some, the kiwi couple, cat and Charlie have left us to go south into Argentina. Leaving Dave and i with ronan and Jane. The crazy Scotts. One night out on the town and a few too many beers, makes ...

Enter Carlos, population 500 (I swear), Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Enter Carlos, population 500 (I swear)

A travel blog entry by nathan.frisch

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... clay road for about four hours. Nearly halfway there, the wildlife started jumping around outside the window. This section of Argentina is a birdwatcherīs Paradise for sure. One would need an entire field manual to catalog all the types of birds we ...

Friends Found, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

Friends Found

A travel blog entry by upriver

... .   I got a job as Rugby Coordinator at a newish school called St Patricks in the backwater province of Corrientes, and coincidentally also played rugby for a new rugby club called St Patricks (no relation to the school). I managed to ...

Mar 05, 2010, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

Mar 05, 2010

A travel blog entry by dlaunay

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No one has a cleft in his chin like Gaston!, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

No one has a cleft in his chin like Gaston!

A travel blog entry by ruizespieces

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... baby boy, matais.  it was really nice getting to meet them, too.  there really isnīt much to do in corrientes, so we wandered around a little.  gaston is a manager at his brotherīs restaurant.  he was actually working nights while ...

At One With Nature, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

At One With Nature

A travel blog entry by sheerin09

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Reaching Colonia Pelligrini was something of a torturous journey involving an overnight bus to a town called Mercedes, from where we hopped onto a local "minibus" service. Minibus is actually a somewhat loose description - most of the windows were ...

Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Colonia Carlos Pellegrini

A travel blog entry by lisa_and_paul

The bus to Colonia Carlos Pellegrini was a beat-up old thing, but a million times better than the one we took three years ago. The road was as we remembered it, unpaved, bumpy, with fields of cows, sheep and emus.  It took about three hours ...

Not time to get off the bus yet!!, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

Not time to get off the bus yet!!

A travel blog entry by calmyourjets

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Who Likes Buses, Between Iguazu and Buenos Aires, Argentina travel blog

Who Likes Buses

A travel blog entry by jbs

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Well most of you probably know this story all ready but I thought I would put up some photos and a short entry. Well after boarding are extremely comfy bus in Iguazu we were on our way to BA in luxury. THe seats folded almost flat and were like big ...

Parque Esteros de Ibera: A Gem of a Place, Collonia Carlos Pelligrini, Argentina travel blog

Parque Esteros de Ibera: A Gem of a Place

A travel blog entry by mountaingypsy

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... to escape their busy city life, jump on a flight to Buenos Aires and ride the bus to Mercedes in the Corrientes district of NE Argentina. Take a minibus or combi from there to Carlos Pelligrini ( mind you, no transport on sundays) and watch all your ...

Tales of the riverbank, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Tales of the riverbank

A travel blog entry by andyryder

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Two bottles of insect repellent, a can of fly spray, anti itch cream and a packet of antihistamines, we were ready for the wetlands of Esteros del Ibera. We stopped off for the night at Posadas where we had arranged to meet Hector Mendoza  ...

Mercedes; final resting place of Gauchito Gil, Mercedes, Argentina travel blog

Mercedes; final resting place of Gauchito Gil

A travel blog entry by jenandtony

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Keen and enthusiastic readers of these blogs will have spotted references to Antonio 'Gauchito' Gil in our earlier blog from La Boca in BsAs. We found small shrines to him on a side street, found out more and soon discovered that he was a folk character ...

Hit the road // Die ersten 1000km, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Hit the road // Die ersten 1000km

A travel blog entry by bonum_iter

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Here we go, it's been a while since we posted the last entry: Since Saturday, Seraina and I hit the road and travel north towards the Iguazu falls. But let's start where we ended the last time. After receiving our car Monday a week ago, we finalized our ...

Patataj, Mercedes, Argentina travel blog

Patataj

A travel blog entry by anabi-wonski

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... sie przejechac, ale doswiadczenia na tyle nedzne, ze nie chce nam sie nawet wiecej opisywac. Rancho El Altillo (Mercedes, Corrientes) radzimy omijac! Ale juz jutro wracamy w gory - Salta i pozniej Boliwia iiiiiiiiiiiiiha! Z okazji krotkiego wpisu sekcja ...

Searching, Residencia, Argentina travel blog

Searching

A travel blog entry by kellyjanebaker

... set over the river, reading under the shade of the trees in the parks, discovering the many murials. In corrientes I have experienced my first Argentina Protest, as they marched around the plaza, through out the day they set of bangers that would leave a ...

ailleurs cest toujours mieux, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

ailleurs cest toujours mieux

A travel blog entry by pepsouille

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ptit dej ds lhotel et je pars pour la ville da cote: corrientes a une demi heure de bus je me balade, cest tres sympa, la ville de resistencia possedait pleins de statues et celles ci plein de fresques representt les aborigenes, ttes faisant allusion a ...

Thanks to all!!, Posados, Argentina travel blog

Thanks to all!!

A travel blog entry by rbartorillo

THANK YOU!!!!We just wanted to thank all of you who have been following us along our travels. We have been having a great time exploring the world, meeting interesting people, and new family that we didnt know we had. Our trip is almost coming to an ...

Esteros Del Ibera, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Esteros Del Ibera

A travel blog entry by koyaya

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החלטתי לנסוע למקום הזה למרות שקצת קשה ...

Swamplands, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Swamplands

A travel blog entry by slowayround

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... on the other side. The dirt road reminded me of how much I’ve been appreciating the fine paved roads in Argentina. Rover shook, rattled, squeaked, and clanked and I worried that something might fall apart. Fortunately, nothing did. When it began to ...

murales, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

murales

A travel blog entry by koyaya

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אין מה לעשות בעיר הזאת, משעמם יותר מפרברים ...

Pellegrini; floating islands, crocs and big rats!, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina travel blog

Pellegrini; floating islands, crocs and big rats!

A travel blog entry by jenandtony

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Whilst in Mercedes, we had been helped enormously by Graciella, who has something to do with the hostel we stayed in. Graciella is the antithesis of all thing Sudamerikano, as she actually gets things done. Having met us like a whirlwind at ...

Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina travel blog

Corrientes

A travel blog entry by tonyandsara_rtw

Passing ...

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