Hotel Cordoba Center

... limp rag. To be honest it was only the adrenalin keeping me awake at SP airport (40 hours without sleep by that time). Anyway Jon was at the airport to meet me so all was well Except that Jon hadn´t booked a hotel. I understandably went ballistic.

... on the look-out for stiff-legged individuals who might have an AK47 stuffed down their trousers. Arriving in Cordoba we checked into a rather plush hotel  beside a major highway junction in what looked like a modern city, just around the corner from ...

... , toilets are aseos not banos and a tortilla is a breakfast quiche like egg, potato, and onion dish--very tasty. This Cordoba hotel is 4-5 star quality with an excellent buffet dinner with local specialties. All for now, as shirley said it ...

... -and they made us feel even more welcome in their city. Now it was time to find the BMW dealer and we drove through the center of Cordoba to the other side of town.   Cordoba is a nice, big city with a modern city center and lots of young ...

... is no economic light-weight. If the story in Mendoza was the irrigation canals and the tree-lined streets, the story here in Cordoba as I mentioned yesterday is the maze of pedestrian malls and galarias-and it truly is a maze, much larger than I first ...

... I am heading for Iguazu Falls on Saturday--a place where in high season accommodations are hard to come by. Cordoba is a surprisingly nice place. With its historic center and ample "calles peatonales"--Av. 25 de Mayo and Av. 9 de Julio are the main ...

... the honorable exception of grilled meats and empanadas, is decidedly Italian (and pretty good Italian) and the architecture is very European. Cordoba is no exception.  We pulled into the bus terminal around 7pm and grabbed a taxi to our hotel – ...

... new hotel, (Hotel Riviera) and checked in. Then it was straight to the Mezquita. Back in the old days, the Mezquita was the center of the western Islamic world. The Spanish "improved" (in their words) on it by building a cathedral right in the middle of ...

... the hotels full we finally gave up and headed on down the road.  We found a very quaint, clean, inexpensive hotel 1/2 hour away from Cordoba.  We did miss some amazing sites there but have many more to come!  We have no pictures of ...

... clearly time to eat lunch.  I was absolutely starved.  It was around this time when I realized something important about Cordoba: finding a quick place to eat is nearly impossible.  The vast majority of the businesses in the entire old city ...

... actually lumps of fat! Not good... Our bus to Salta was that evening so we collected our bags from the hotel and walked to the bus terminal. We both really liked Cordoba, and would definitely recommend people take a short visit if travelling Argentina! ...

... it as often as I can. These churros were fresh, so they were even better than normal.     When we reached the center of the city we all agreed that we were still pretty hungry. We decided to stop in a tapas restaurant. Tapas are basically ...

... of righteousness, of morality, of the "proper" religion, and the reclamation of Andalusia by it's rightful rulers...sickening. Well, that's Cordoba. I was so emotional overrun I didn't have it in me to do anything else. Not that there was much else to ...

... with its ornate ceiling decoration (Janine, you and your harp came to mind right away!) than the collection of 19th and 20th century cordob''s art works. Never mind, it was a nice place to warm up for a few minutes. On the street again fruit and vegetable ...

... , so we got on a shuttle.  I called Liliana´s daughter Carolina once we got there, and she set us up at a nice hotel in the centre of La Plata.  The next day she showed us the town, and we did all the tourist stuff that we ...

...    343 km / 213 miles / 6 hrs 8:00 am Breakfast with host families 9:15 am Meet at Santa Fe Stake Center; board bus 9:30 am Travel by bus to Córdoba 12:00 pm Lunch while traveling -sack lunch from Santa Fe  5:00 ...

... center and did our food shopping at the market with great meat and vegetables. We had dinner at the hotel and we went out for midnight. Nevertheless, the center was empty. Nobody was in the street. Argentinean people spend it with their family and then ...

... ; by 9 pm.  The show started with a projection on the wall of the fort with pictures depicting the history of Cordoba.  After that we walked out into the garden....with music....and watched the fountains as they spouted water with various colors ...

... to go to the train station.  We had no problem with the train - buying tickets, getting on, and getting to Cordoba.  We took a taxi to our hotel...and the front door looked out on the Mezquita - the big reason we came to this city.  So far ...

... progress since then, ill just check ...... o yeah when we were at iguazo. Right, we jumped onto the bus to cordoba which is sort of in the centre of argentina and was amazed how much in the middle of the rainforest we actually were in Iguazo falls (as ...

... the inside and the free breakfast was literally 2 rolls. It was in a good location though, right in the centre of the city. Cordoba is a pretty city, lots of Universities and colleges and pedestrianised shopping streets. We had the best vegetarian buffet ...