Rosario, Argentina Travel Blogs

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

... 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 just ...

Doing it the hard way
May 27, 2006 (1 photos)

... at all, so in order to attract the right calibre of candidate, the management ran a nationwide contest to find Argentina's grumpiest and most obnoxious people, the winners receiving a prestigous position behind one of the much-sought after desks within ...

Zzzzz
May 23, 2006

I got to Rosario at you know which time of day, and checked into a basic hostel, refusing to be duped once again by the guidebook's dubious accommodation list. Fortunately I didn't encounter any of those irritating "backpacker" types - this wasn't that ...

Háts off to Hernán the Hair Mán
May 12, 2007 (10 photos)

After another day soaking up the BA's atmos we decided to head out to the small - but Argentina's third largest - city of Rosario on the Rio Paraná. It was here where Motorcycle Diarist and revolutionary Che Guevara was born but what most rosarińos seem to ...

Rehearsing my social skills pt II
May 26, 2006 (8 photos)

... of friendly thesps and musos. The next day was a public holiday, and the first time I had ever seen anywhere in Argentina look busy. The very attractive costanera riverside was rammed, as was the nice park which provided nice benches for me to take a ...

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

... where we tour around an historical ranch which is now a museum. Rosario, Is This Argentina's Finest City? Our next stop, Rosario, is Argentina's third largest city, and many say it's best. After spending five days here, we agree that it does have a ...

South America begins....
Mar 28, 2003 (18 photos)

... and a night walk through jacara (like alligators) infested waters. And after the Pantanal it was down towards the Brazil/Argentina border to the famous Iguazu falls. According to Indian legend, the falls were created when a warrior and his love decided ...

Rosario
Jan 10, 2007

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Rosario & Victoria
Jan 20, 2008 (38 photos)

... was a nice change from city life & reminds you of home. We passed over countless bridges, the most eye catching being PUENTE Rosario-Victoria. It crosses the main course of the Paraná River & touches down on several islands of the Paraná Delta on the way. ...

The kindness of strangers
Sep 7, 2004 (4 photos)

... on their own and they were happy out to go along with us. There is a monument there that commerorates the foundation of Argentina and inside there are flags from all the "friends" of Argentina. Unfortunately Ireland´s flag is not there. I don´t know if the ...

Che Che Che....
Jul 15, 2009 (1 photos)

... columbian man and we stayed up drinking until in early hours. We ran our of drink about 11.30 and its illegal to sell drink in Rosario after 11 pm however the German guy wasn´¨t having any of it so we walked down various streets to see if any of the corner ...

Rosario
Mar 13, 2009 (31 photos)

... than most Aussies or Saffer's (big call but we're putting it out there). The occasion marked Augusto's final days in Argentina as he prepares for a year downunder. His friends kindly stripped him down and tossed him into the dirty pool before taking a ...

Finally saying goodbye to Argentina!
Sep 12, 2008 (28 photos)

... with a massive monument. 2: Being the birthplace of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in 1928. 3: For having the best looking girls in Argentina...allegedly! I remembered the city pretty well from the last time I was there, all of 5 months ago, so it didn´t take ...

WEEK SIXTY FOUR, STEAKS, SHOES, SCHOOL
Jun 6, 2008 (91 photos)

... money but I ended up spending a months budget in two days!! Never mind, as I finally arrived in my destination of Rosario in Argentina, the birth place of Che Guevara! I checked in to my hostel, again it was mentioned to me in passing and to be ...

Hot hot hot
Dec 17, 2008 (14 photos)

Rosario, city where the Argentine flag was designed and birth place of Che Guevara. Also a convenient stop off on the way to Buenos Aires.

Birthplace of the flag, home of huge club
Apr 5, 2008 (15 photos)

Second biggest city, very nice downtown, famous riverside beaches that stretch for miles, home of the guy who designed the flag....and location of Latin America's largest club that fills with thousands every weekend.

No Room At The Inn
Jul 8, 2007

... my bags I had to point out that although the offer was generous if I was sleeping on the street for a night I may never be back to collect them. Suffice to say I decided Rosario was obviously not for me and got on the next bus I could Heading for Cordoba.

Resting in Rosario
Dec 6, 2008 (15 photos)

... talented too. On Friday night we went out for a nice meal for my Dad's birthday. That is pretty much our week in Rosario. It is a really nice place with lots of little streets and cool cafes and boutiques. The people are all really friendly too so this ...

on the bus
Jan 24, 2007 (4 photos)

In the terminal in Buenos Aires I had told Mike that my friend Cechu and her husband do not speak any English. I had in mind to play a little joke on the lad. What he didn´t know was that they had lived recently in the states for a number of years. They ...

Rosario
May 1, 2006 (2 photos)

... dance with german, adrian (another cousin), toto and their crazy friend diago, touring the sights of Rosario... but most of all many many laughs... often at the expense of us and our bad-non existant spanish!!! what a fabulous introduction to argentina!!!

Down by the river
Dec 20, 2008 (5 photos)

... city, we are in the city of Rosario, which is only 4 hours away from Buenos Aires, our final destination after  this.  Rosario is  located  on a river, so there is a beach, it is not the sea, but it is something. The water was a little ...

day 14 - tuesday 9th october
Oct 9, 2007 (5 photos)

... probably salta to see some canyons. should be in bolivia by the weekend id say. might pop back into brazil it was cooler than argentina. or paraguay we havent been there yet. if i had known what the clothes were like here i would have come with an empty ...

Human Shar pei, really young chicks and a virgin
Jan 25, 2008 (5 photos)

An Isreali dude told me once in Rio that the hottest chicks he has ever seen on this planet reside in none other than Rosario, Argentina.  Now at the time I didn`t believe a bit of it because as we were watching the Carnaval rehearsal he told me this ...

Rosario
Apr 24, 2008 (13 photos)

... in the parks.  Our main destination was the Monument dela Bandera, or the Flag Monument, for it was in Rosario that General Belgrano designed the Argentinian flag.  This was packed with kids watching samba drummers practice and break-dancing.& ...

the pretty city...
Jan 30, 2006 (1 photos)

i have spent the last week in the city of rosario, which is the 3rd biggest in argentina (although i keep being told that it is in fact the 2nd most important :-) ). it is a very cool city filled with a lot of my favourite things - beautiful buildings, ...

Just so I have another town in my diary...
Oct 30, 2003

... bathrooms and wandering around the city at 7.30 in the morning, but its all part of the fun of travelling I suppose!! Rosario is a much more industrial and less picturesque than Mendoza, but it has a monument to the Argentinian flag, which is pretty ...

2nd largest city with a beach!
Oct 4, 2006 (1 photos)

The birth place of Che Guevara, though that´s not all the city (the 2nd largest in Argentina) has going for it. Beautiful colonial buildings, a beach (on which we witnessed some disturbing swim wear! although this was softened by the beauty of the ...

Rain in Rosario
Feb 28, 2007 (1 photos)

... day inspite of the continous rain we cheered up a bit when we moved rooms to one overlooking the plaza with a big balcony.   Rosario turned out to be worth the trip once the sun showed its face and we discovered all the river beaches, bars,  ...

Rosario
Jan 2, 2007 (8 photos)

ritornato in argentina... l'arrivo previsto previsto per Rosario era intorno alle quatro emazza del mattino... la mia preoccupazione era quella di non svegliarmi per scendere in tempo perche' poi il pullman avrebbe proseguito per Corbobam mia prossima ...

La citta' natale del Che
May 3, 2006 (1 photos)

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