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- Buenos Aires
- Capital
- Argentine Peso (ARS)
- Currency
- 37,384,816
- Population
- AR
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Argentina Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Argentina
Iguazu Falls - The Argentinean Side
This is a top pick! Our relatively smooth flight descended through the clouds, glided over dense tropical rainforest and landed in a heavy downpour. Exposed to the elements once again, Jason's pack was wet. We took a shuttle to Garden Stone Hostel and unpacked ...
The big climb
This is a top pick! 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 ...
It's a dogs life.....
This is a top pick! ... to bed in our dorm. The hostel is very nice though great views of the Andes from its elevated position, we just wish we could afford to eat the eat as much as you can BBQ and the steaks that some people seem to be able to live on in ...
Beefing it up in Argentina. Literally.
This is a top pick! ... into my new Brazilian g-string bikini' They were so right. Im so fat. OK, so they told me that the food was amazing in Argentina, but they didn't tell me it was THIS amazing. All you can eat buffets for only US $4, with the most amazing meat you've ...
Tango Buenos Aires style - in NEW shoes!!
This is a top pick! ... 'handbag', 'shoe' or 'nailpolish' when we walked through Recoleta Cemetery and La Boca. By the time we shared a few bottles of Argentina's finest in Cafe Tortoni I think he was glad he was heading up to Iguazu ahead of the girlies. Drank way too much ...
Thwarted...
This is a top pick! ... if you do them with a silly, over-enthusiastic Spanish accent, here are the Top 5 words that are most fun to say: 5. Arriba 4. Chicito 3. ¡Hola! 2. Empanada 1. Gazpacho Argentina is far too expensive for my liking. Bolivia it ...
Into Glacier Viedma
This is a top pick! We were up early for the first ice trekking session of the day on Viedma Glacier. This still meant that we were able to have breakfast at 8am, but obviously people here don't like getting up early. Probably something to do with the cold!! The ...
Arriving in Salta
This is a top pick! Got the public bus from Encarnacion over the border to Posadas which are very regular and the buses dont wait for you. Made sure you get your ticket from the driver so they let you back on again without paying. On the Paraguayan side the border ...
Iguazu Falls - Argentinian Side
This is a top pick! ... for once as rain had been forecast for Brazil and we had left it as overcast and grey as it had been for our entire visit but Argentina had been forecast sun and that is what we got as soon as we crossed the border - it was about 40ºC - phew. At the ...
Southernmost city in the world............check
This is a top pick! ... thanks. Tragic. Thus concludes what I would call one of our most bland blog updates. In our next blog update, we head to Bariloche, Argentina’s chocolate capital and cycle 37kms in an effort to earn ourselves some fat credits for Easter ...
As south as you can go without getting wet!
This is a top pick! ... ! We arrived in Ushuaia after a 13 hour bus journey which involved crossing into Chile, a short boat ride and a crossing back into Argentina - 4 border crossings each with one guy at the desk and 50 people on the bus - that's why it takes 13 hours! ...
Mission aborted (but the thought was there)
This is a top pick! ... but in fact not at all, while the Aussies have the catchphrase "Shane, throw a few more shrimps on the Barby", the equivalent in Argentina is “Hugo, throw three or four more whole lambs on the Barby”, they really do know what they are doing, ...
Age is a terrible thing
This is a top pick! I left the room at about 6:15 as I just get bored lay in bed trying to be quiet. Erica got up nice and early as well but I couldn't eat any breako after last night’s feast, so while the lady had some bread and jam I stuck to the coffee. By about ...
Futbol, faeces and finding Evita
This is a top pick! The darkness lasted till about 7am which was great, our hostel also is great so after our free breako of hot bread, cereal, fruit and very strong coffee we set off across town to the Recoleta neighbourhood – the well heeled live here and also are ...
More buses, more bingo, more bread
This is a top pick! Having the bed next to the window I woke up at about 6:45 and the Lady finally rose at about 9:00. We had a leisurely breakfast of coffee with jam and rolls, wrote some of the blog for the last few days and just spent some time chatting to our fellow ...
Mendoza to Puente De Inca - Day 6
This is a top pick! Today is finally the day we head up into the Andes to start our voyage to the roof of the the western hemisphere. We were picked up by a minibus in the early afternoon for the three and half hour drive to Puente De Inca a small settlement by the side of ...
DOMINEY FAMILY VACATION - Print Edition
This is a top pick! ... ): ¨What do we have for her Rod?¨ Rod Roddy (exhumed corpse): ¨It´s a ´you pay all expenses´ trip to beautiful Argentina. And no need for a brand new car when you´ll be taking multiple overnight bus rides across the country. While in Mendoza, ...
It never rains, but it pours II
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Los Antiguos
This is a top pick! ... food is good for our Spanish! As it turned out there was no ferry the next day so we decided to spend one last day in Argentina and hang around Los Antiguos for the day. We didn't do much, just drank some beer, practiced our Spanish, ate at a ...
Go West! A leisurely drive back to the Andes
This is a top pick! On the afternoon of Saturday 19 November, having spent a marvellous two days wildlife spotting on Peninsula Valdez, we dropped our travel companion Andrea off at the bus station in Puerto Madryn. We decided to take a leisurely drive west, back to the ...
Zzzzz
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Could be in the Alps
This is a top pick! ... through getting our passports stamped). Eventally we arrived here in Bariloche, which is part of the lakes district here in Argentina. Its a pretty town, very touristy though, and very much like Swizerland or France, with the smowy mountains in the ...
Parque Nacional Los Alerces to Trevelin
This is a top pick! We woke early after the first night in our tent sore from the ground and tired, but looking forward to the first of our planned treks. We drove to the information centre only to be told that the trail we wanted to do was closed! Apparently for ...
Definitely our best trip ever!
This is a top pick! Woken at 6am and go to breakfast hoping for baked beans on toast. They appear to have run out so settle for everything else instead knowing this will be our biggest meal for a while! Our bags are taken off and we start to leave at about 7.30am. Dave ...
The business class backpacker.
This is a top pick! I woke up at 11:30AM today, and I didn't even go out last night. I went to bed quite early in fact. Possibly I just slept long because I spent the previous (sleepless) night in Santiago airport, on an uncomfortable bench. But after nine months on the ...
Stuck in Salta doing some caramel pulling.
This is a top pick! ... German guy I met in Montevideo (I am sure you know, but it's a small world on the backpacker circuit). It's winter holiday in Argentina now, so the nightlife was great, and Salta is practically boiling. After waking up with a hangover a couple of days in ...
Indulgent Argentina
This is a top pick! ... were Tango singers with no dancers, and we couldn´t stay up late enough to see if dancing would come later. In Argentina, dinnertime doesn´t start until 9 p.m. or later, and going home before 3 a.m. on the weekends is considered early. The highlight ...
Junto al Río Inmovil
This is a top pick! ... stainless steel, and plenty of classy dressers. From there, we went to the Casa Rosada (The Pink House," residence of Argentina's president) and the adjacent Plaza de Mayo, where so much of the country's political history played out and where mothers ...
Patagonia & Perito Moreno - Beware falling ice
This is a top pick! I know at the end of the last blog, I promised avalanches and a massive trek in Torres del Paine. That was such an experience that I thought I would dedicate a whole blog to it, hence that will be covered in the next posting. The trip down south is well ...
Cafayate
This is a top pick! The next morning we visited a couple of the local wineries, Bodega Etchart, and Bodega la ...