Argentina
Travel Blogs from Argentina
Spanish - Spanglish...oh jeez I'm confused!
... ! Yes, I am speaking from experience here, and yes, Kevin did have go mental! Anyway, Dulce de Leche is so popular here in Argentina that they have Dulce de Leche ice-cream, which of course we felt obliged to sample, Dulce de Leche biscuits called ...
No Norwegian julegran as far as the eye can see.
... calculation I'm not exactly sure, only thing I know is that I enjoyed it a lot. As I just mentioned, I spent Christmas in Argentina, mainly in and around Buenos Aires. But I also plan to spend another week in fashionable Punta del Este, Uruguay, as ...
Don't cry for me Buenos Aires
... only one day left in Buenos Aires, a self-guided walking/Subte tour was not going to cut it. Lucky for me, everything in Argentina was sooooo cheap, that I was able to guiltlessly buy a city tour to explore the city treasures I had not seen yet and let ...
The Beautiful Iguazu Falls
... not one large water fall, but a series of falls, with numerous steps and stages, set deep in the tropical forest bordering Brazil and Argentina. At it's peak flow it has 12,700 cubic metres of water pouring over the edge. Although we did not visit at this ...
Big city nights.
... go on your next vacation (I know it's unlikely, as most people have a long list of dream destinations), then can I recommend Argentina? It's a fantastic country, it's very cheap at the moment, it's safe and people are friendly. For example, start or ...
Afternoon tea and scones in Trevelin
... fantastic scenery during the journey. We found the cheapest place that we could...£20 for both of us per night. High season in Argentina is not cheap. Anyway, we were planning on staying here for a few days and visiting the national park that is close ...
The big climb
This was the day where I climbed the Andes, and big time. The road got steeper, and steeper, and then, for luck, a little bit steeper. It was formed of a load of switchbacks literally zigzagging up the side of the mountain, like a giant game of snakes ...
every color of the rainbow....
... ;the best rides....in terms of the view. We're driving from San Pedro de Atacama, the Chilean desert town, to Salta, Argentina. Which means we're going through a high altitude desert in the Andes. There are people on this bus with ...
Two contrasting days at Laguna de los Tres
... , dinner in a little Bistro…Fuegia Bistro is the name I think. This was certainly the best food we’d had in Argentina….and from my veggie perspective, the best salad I’d had in months! Definitely worth a visit. All in all, another ...
La Angastura to El Chalten
Sleeping in a tent does have the advantage of ensuring you get an early start. We were up, fed, packed and on the road again by 8am. With one eye on the fuel gauge we made our way to Tres Lagos, which other than the lovely views over Lago Cardiel wasn't ...
La Bombonera.
Close to three months has already passed, and just a few hours ago my brother left for Norway and Christmas celebrations with family and friends. It's been a few fantastic months together, visiting six very different and spectacular countries. I guess ...
Altiplano, altitude and an injured camera...
"Purmamarca is in the cultural heart of Argentina," so says one of our leaders, Juan. Apparently, when backpacking through Argentina, lots of people base themselves in Purmamarca and head out to explore the surrounding areas. He did something similar when ...
What would you do next...?
... the 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 ...
Yay, the ash cloud cleared!
Approaching Bariloche was like driving into some post-apocalyptic world. The town has been heavily affected by the recent eruptions from a nearby volcano in Chile and regularly gets covered in a cloud of ash. Looking out the windows of the bus we could ...
It never rains, but it pours II
Aha, he's recycling the bad-taste joke made during the attack of diarrhoea a couple of weeks back, you're thinking, and therefore indicating that those creepy-crawlies in the satsuma weren't so innocent after all! And yet again, behold the cruel irony of ...
Blown off my feet on my birthday!
DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 253 Temperature : Dunno...cold! Weather : Wind like we've NEVER seen before! Happy birthday to me...Happy birthday to me...Happy birthday to mee-eeee...Happy birthday to me! Well, I've never before had a birthday quite like it.....I ...
Enjoying the Patagonian Summer Weather!!
DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 252 Temperature : 6 degrees on the mountain Weather : Howling wind and driving rain…so with wind chill…close to freezing for sure! Before I tell you about what we have been up to, let me first tell you some ...
Big Ice!!
DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 257 Temperature : 14 degrees Weather : Cloudy morning, sunny afternoon Wow! Wow! Wow! It's like a living, breathing monster which continually groans and creaks. Then, every so often, there are the most incredible loud, hollow, ...
Zzzzz
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 ...
Spontaneity might just work out...
... of garlic, I reflected on the random turn of events that led to me hitchhiking across the Quebrada de Huamahuaca in Northern Argentina. This conversation, which took place on the streets of Salta late on Friday night, replayed in my mind: Random ...
La Boca is the least of your worries...
... be fine. But no one ever tells you about the thing that's most likely to kill you in South America - the food in Argentina. It should, more appropriately, be called 'Argentinean food of the devil of the death straight from fucking hell'. Now, in ...
Buenos Aires...Muy Bueno!!!
... 7000 miles from them, in most of our conversation we seemed to have the same concerns. It seems that being thirtysomething in Argentina isn't too much different than in New Jersey. So tonight we are back on a plane again for a long ride ...
Yo soy de Boca señor...
... the most crazy local supporters for that matter)? Third and finally, what is a decent price for a ticket on the black market in Argentina? We spent our time talking to lots of guys, and not buying the first ones we found (like I usually do). And after a ...
Whoooeeeeee I Made it Five Years!!!!!!!!!
Whooo hoooo I made it! Five years this weekend: well five years a few weeks ago but that was just the opening chapter of the journey and it was so fast and furious and confusing that I hardly can remember much about those first few days in ...
Crash parties, not bikes
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 ...
Beauty, futbal and near death... Brilliant.
There's something about a near-death crushing at an Argentinean football match. I'm not sure what it is. I can't quite put my finger on it. It's not just the pre pandemonium - the fact that, having attended so many crazy football games of football in ...
Mendoza and wine!
... the effect is wide open inviting streets, lined with restaurant's and shops. One thing i want to say about our experience in Argentina so far is the fact that everything has a much more European feel about it... I guess it is because everything is ...
One big glacier & more stunning views....22-26 Nov
... 't speak English....well you can imagine that didn't go down well. Katharina and I have found whilst travelling together, that in Argentina in particularly the women are not very friendly to us, and in general of all the countries I have visited the ...
V is for Victory
Unfortunately the road from Colon to the National Park was of the busy, belorried variety, much like the infamous road into Cordoba, although this time, thank goodness, there was an emergency lane to the side of the road for both my convenience and that ...
