Corrientes, Argentina Travel Blogs

Cross Country Argentine style
Sep 24, 2008 (7 photos)

...  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 of  ...

About prostitutes, big waterfalls and spiders...
Feb 19, 2003 (5 photos)

... 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 paid in ...

Killing time and bikini shopping
Jan 12, 2008 (3 photos)

... but we will see how brave I am. After the shopping and some blissfully fast loading internet, we just had time to explore the riverside and the few murals around the city. Suffice to say Corrientes is making more of its riverfront than Buenos Aires is.

Esteros del Ibera en Colonia Carlos Pellegrini
Sep 6, 2007 (39 photos)

more to come

Idle days in Esteros del Ibera
Sep 28, 2007 (9 photos)

... 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 Bus ...

Jab on the bum!!
Nov 9, 2006

... of bunkbeds!And I have had the excuse to eat ice cream tubs all day, serving the duel purpose of icing my hand and trying new flavors. I will give you a better account of Corrientes when I get the chance to explore. Signing out Ms. Love/ Ms. Mano Gordo

Enter Carlos, population 500 (I swear)
Oct 24, 2008

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

Corrientes. Another place to skip through quickly
Mar 28, 2007

... failed miserably at Resistencia in January with a second rate hotel I carefully selected a good quality place to stay in Corrientes. The "Footprint" guide and "The Lonely Planet" suggested that "Hotel Del Rio" would be reasonably comfortable even if a ...

No one has a cleft in his chin like Gaston!
Apr 4, 2008 (2 photos)

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

At One With Nature
Oct 9, 2009 (11 photos)

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 broken, ...

Colonia Carlos Pellegrini
Aug 31, 2008

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 ...

Corrientes
May 2, 2006

... , and the player must hit someone else´s shoe to score, concede 5 goals and you are out, last man standing wins). Corrientes is a town seemingly dominated by school kids, with boys uniforms of long white jackets making them look like scientists who had ...

Corrientes
Feb 7, 2007

Passing through...

arrivée a Corrientes
Apr 25, 2009 (8 photos)

... Nus sommes arrivés à 6H25 comme prévu ! Dis donc ils sont ponctuels ! Nous avons pris un taxis pour l'hôtel grand turismo de Corrientes . Mais les chambres vieillottes n'ont pas plu à maman ! Ca va ce n'est qu'une nuit ! Malheureusement la piscine n'était pas ...

The Follow-up (Part 5) - The Countdown
Apr 2, 2006 (19 photos)

... night as there was nothing there to do or see. We had heard however of a beautiful fishing spot in the province of Corrientes, close to the border with Misiones, which was widely visited by tourists not only for the fishing but for the beaches. These of ...

Estera del Ibera
Mar 18, 2007

... and are using them to fund the The Conservation Trust, which has acquired close to 2 million acres in Chile and Argentina, mostly Patagonia, in order to preserve them from development, or to return them to their natural condition (pull out fences, ...

South America Tour - Argentina - Corrientes
May 7, 2007

Another pit, nearly as bad as Cordoba

Killing time in Corrie
May 17, 2006

... in the champion's league final before I had to catch my bus. I couldn´t catch a bus direct to the border from Corrientes so instead I´m heading on to Salta. On the map the direct route from Iguazu to Santa Cruz is clearly through Paraguay. I´d thought about ...

Stop in corrientes
Jun 17, 2006 (4 photos)

... Salta... On the next day we went to center of the city, we walked on the ramla (TAYELET) next to the river between Corrientes an Resistencia. We just went to Corrientes because we didn`t want to travel 26 hours from the Iguazu to Salta- so Corrientes was ...

On the move
Oct 19, 2005 (2 photos)

... a bit difficult as we had to get on and off at least four times just to do the border crossing requirements! Arrived in Corrientes where the guy handing out luggage seemed to have an issue with giving luggage to women. Despite our luggage being at the ...

More Birds
Jul 16, 2009 (25 photos)

Continued on to  the town of Colonia Pelligrini which is an entrance to the Reserva Provincial Esteros del Ibera, apparently a wildlife cornucopia. The last 100kms consisted of a reasonably good dirt road, on this we got stopped by the Police quite ...

Esteros de Ibera
Jun 20, 2007 (10 photos)

... for not updating in so long!  Internet connection has been hard to come by.  I spent a week up north near Corrientes in a reserve known as Esteros de Ibera.  It's a huge wetlands (think Everglades) filled with wildlife.  I was in ...

Corrientes
Jul 14, 2009 (8 photos)

Set off this morning for the town of Corrientes, one of the oldest towns in Argentina. En route we passed by the top part of the National Park we will be visiting later, as we passed we saw a couple of the 6 ft tall Jabiru storks and lots of other ...

Bus Trip Part I - Just get me out of Igazu
May 11, 2007 (5 photos)

... , no food..we´re back in Bolivia! So after stopping at every shed along the way we arrive 6 hours later in corrientes. Nice enough little town. No tourists. Appartently its famous for the river game fishing where you catch this carnivore fish that ...

referencia mapa
Jan 1, 2008

apenas para seguir o mapa corretamente...

Corrientes, Santa Fe and Rosario
Oct 19, 2005

From Paraguay Simona and I went back to Argentina, this time to Corrientes. Once we arrived we decided that there was not that much to do so we booked ourselves on an overnight bus to Santa Fe (9 hours), we spent the day pottering around and reading in ...

Corrientes
Nov 22, 2006 (5 photos)

Corrientes - border with Paraguay

Corrientes
Dec 1, 2007

Corrientes

Corrientes
Mar 15, 2007

OUffff, sacre changement de Resistencia... Corrientes c'est le bonheur.. Une jolie petite ville au bord du fleuve Parana, qui vit au rythme de la sieste, avec une jolie rue pietone. En plus on a le plaisir de dormir dans un hotel qui office d'"hotel de ...

water heel veel water FOOOOTOOOOSS!!!!
Apr 19, 2007

mooi, verhalen volgen later... nu eerst fotos sorry, compu al twee keer gecrashed, tzal voor de volgende zijn.... nu naar tandarts en dan NAAR FUCKING RIO DE JANEIRO!!!! daar kom ik morgen namiddag aan, net op tijd om een coctailtje of twee drie te ...