La Rioja Hotels - Reviews and Rates

This maybe the only entry on this travel blog that doesn't have a meaningless title that tells you nothing about what we did and only makes sense if you happen to be me or Rachel. So enjoy it. Today we visited Talampaya National Park, the second of a UNESCO double bill (yesterday we were at Ischigualasto - but you'll already know that if you've ...

I relax and enjoy the city. I have a large ice cream. This seems to be a cultural dynamic with parlors everywhere. 2 scoops of high quality ice cream in a waffle cone is $1. I am having at least 1 per day. Despite my eating I have still lost weight (but not in a bad way). Another cultural dynamic is to drink at lunch. I find a good pizza place t...

My bus leaves for Tucuman at 6. My alarm goes at 5. The frequent changes from staying up until 5 AM one day then waking up at that time is playing havoc with my body clock. It is a 6 hour trip but with pretty views through the mountains. Then I need to figure out how to get to La Rioja. When in S Amer it is difficult to plan through connections ...

dopo un'altro entusiasmante viaggio di 8 ore lungo la sterminata e desolata landa argentina eccomi finalmente arrivato in una citta' che in un primo momento sembra non avere niente di interessante ma dopo un'attenta e scrupolosa analisi... beh conferma l'apparenza! piccolo particolare.. in questa cittadina ho incontrato due personaggi un po' amb...

Our original intention was to get straight from Cafayate to Mendoza in one day, but the Mother's Day bank holiday weekend put paid to those plans. All busses were full so the furtherst south we could get from Tucuman was La Rioja. La Rioja seemed nice enough but there didn't seem to be much there to do. We only stayed for the one day and had a d...