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Rosario Slideshow
Rosario
Travel Blogs from Rosario, Argentina
Home Of Argentina's Most Beautiful Women
... , checked in then went out and explored the town. There is a lot of talk, particularily between backpackers, that Rosario has the finest women in Argentina, and some even say South America. Rosario is a big University city, so it's strongest population is ...
Please don´t go!
The Lonely Planet claims Rosario is possibly the best city in Argentina. The Guide de Routard (we´re giving the french guide book a try thanks to Maria´s cultured influence) doesn´t mention the place. For once the French are right. Our first warning ...
Rosario, The birth place of Che
... were leaving that we found out there was a park dedicated to him, d´oh. We had a late night fulfilled with Caipirinha´s in Rosario & chats with locals, & why not! Now we are back in Buenos Aires where Jen can finally go shoppping and I can sample a ...
Emails you don't want to get from home
"The basement where all your stuff is stored has flooded with sewage." What qualifies as a flood? My childhood house flooded during a hurricane and that was two feet of water in the basement. Is there two feet of urban black gold ...
Rosario, on the Parana River
... player, and sometimes, clothes washing facilities (by that, I mean a washboard sink). Hot water in the bathrooms (outside of Argentina) is a plus, and often as not, the shower water is heated electrically. By that I mean there is an electric ...
Rosario
... basin. They were so hungry that they tried to bite the bun of my hamburger, while it was sitting on the table. In Rosario the also have the national flag monument, which is a huge stone tower with statues and an eternal flame in a secondary structure. ...
Rosario
Rosario was cool, saw Che guevaras house, went on paddle boats, went to art exhibitions, got mistaken for being a fag coming out of a park in the middle of the night, to behonest I cant remember everything I did there cause it was ages ago. It was cool, i ...
Cycling days 220 to 222 -El Laco to Rosario (Arg)
... black and white all around. About 30km later, we make it to Paso Sico, one of the many border crossings between Chile and Argentina. It would be a moment to celebrate except that it is spoiled by the realization that we’ve lost a screw from one of ...
Rosario
... the talking - not much daylight was seen, apart from a last ditch attempt to do the tourist thing before hopping on the bus to Cordoba. Rosario: definitely recommend a weekend here and the club to be at is 'Madame' - just be prepared to be ...
Cycling ourselves up for Rosario
... picked up the bikes a couple of blocks from our hostel and made for the Monumento a la Bandera. This is a monument that celebrates the Argentina flag. It is really grand and has a fire pit, fountains, lots of big stairs and a tower you can climb for AR$2 ...
Rosario
... of their searches - this may be the time to treat myself to a new hi-tec wheely convertable one. Might check them out in BA. Rosario, birthplace of Che Guevara, gets a great write-up in LP but I think they visited in summer as there´s not a lot to do ...
Breaking up the journey
... even a river 'beach'), plenty of parks and plazas, Che Guevara's first abode, and the enormous, impressive, monument to the flag of Argentina. Dinner was at Don Ferro in what used to be Rosario's Central train station. We sat outside (on the ...
Tigre to Rosario
... - just had a few beers, veal and sandwiches for lunch US$6 for two of us. Think we should send all Aussie pensioners to Argentina! Cars are all assembled and ready to rock first thing Sat morning. We are off on first leg of 600km at 7.59am. Our group ...
Travelling Without Moving
... for the bus to arrive, waiting for border control to stamp your passport. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Argentina. Crossing over the border from Bolivia to Argentina was a ludicrous faff. What should be a simple case of stamping passports is ...
I Almost Had My Trip Paid For
... Rio Naraña. At 20:00 I am off on Crucero del Norte, who bill themselves as having the newest bus fleet in Argentina. My next destination is Rosario, in Provincia Santa Fe only 13 hours away. The trip was excellent as was the service and it puts in ...
Time to move on
... until we eventually found one with a vacancy, it took him 45 mins,several miles and stops yet his charge was just12 pesos (2pounds). Rosario is a big city with a big city problems, I will report on it later in some detail in the meantime "keep a ...
To the south
And so to our present location, Rosario. We got here a 7am and proceeded to get totally lost with the help of an asshole bus driver who brought us to the middle of a block of flats, and not the ´´plaza centro´´ we had asked for. I don't know whats up ...
Our new Argentinian best friends
Rosario is the third largest city in Argentina but has a really small town feel to it. The hockey world cup was taking place there so we ended up staying in a hideous hotel but the city was so great we didn`t care. There are a couple of great ...
Rosy Rosario
... were up early to go and meet our guide. We quickly got our bikes and followed our guide Sebastian. Really friendly guy from Rosario and now main contact for Rosario for the lonely planet and used to be part of the national team of kayaking ... ...
A taste of English weather
... the most of it). In the afternoon we went to the Museo de Bellas Artes which our guidebook says is one of Argentina's best art galleries. Well, I think we must have been spoiled by living in London, because it didn't seem ...
The windedown after Buenos Aires
... a genius too as he kenw a lot about a lot. He gave us a brief history on the whole government and economy of argentina and it was really really interesting I have to say. Andy if your reading this I beat the crap out of you in the next ...
Rosario
... years of fighting over it. We meet two guys traveling together Alan from Manchester and James from Canada we stayed in touch with them and met them as we traveled around Argentina they even came to B's A's to see us for Halloween. ...
Rain in Rosario
... 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, ...
Counting on my Rosario
... is the Monumento a la Bandera - the monument to the flag, where Belgrano first raised the flag that he had created for Argentina in 1812. Stunning views over the Parana river and into the city, although I could find my hotel distinctive green and stone ...
In Search of Che's beginnings
... it not giving any credit to Che having lived there. To me, it showed a strange duality between popular culture and governance. In Argentina, like many places across the world, he is a popular figure who stood for freedom and equality. However, also being ...
Visiting the home of Che
... how people live. Other than that, not much to report from us because we were there on a Sunday, which we´ve found is a VERY BORING day to be anywhere in Argentina. Barely anything is open and you have to go on a bounty hunt just to find a decent ...
You think it's boring, and then Ping! Pow!
... empty pub reading and making "pfffpt" noises at the TV. For Monday and Tuesday, I went a couple hundred kilometers away to Rosario, Argentina on the banks of the Rio Parana because my guidebook said it had lots of stylish and classy bars and ...
Beaches, buses and keeping busy
... and understanding becomes a new challenge all over again. Menu´s are different, the culture changes etc. Anyway, enough of that. Rosario is a really nice place, very lively with lots of young people. It was nice to see girls wearing skirts again. ...
ARGENTINA: Bariloche>Junín>Buenos Aires>Rosario
... to take us all the way to Cordoba...a further 2 hours.... was rough and got here at 2am this morning... shall see what Argentina's second largest adn exceptionalyl cultural city has to offer for 2 days max.... the race against time is still on...... 2 ...