Destination: Argentina

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Frozen in Denmark

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By outahead | Views [206] | Scholarship Entry

Love moved me away from my home. I was in Buenos Aires, ready to have a new journey, when I found out that the girl of my life was in Copenhague, so I went there. It was february, and of course, winter. The hardest one I've ever felt. The city was white, ... Read more >

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Horsing About in Mendoza

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By tomhalbert | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry

The cab rattled its way up the rocky mountain track at a speed its suspension really didn’t seem to be enjoying. The three passengers laughed nervously at each other as the driver, apparently some sort of amateur rally enthusiast, whooped and cheered ... Read more >

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Fairies, Chocolate and Earless Van Gogh

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By tusitala | Views [260] | Scholarship Entry

“The reason why Van Gogh cut his ear off”, claimed the green sign carefully written in white letters. I was on my way to Mendoza City, capital of a central-west province of Argentina and, as I had a few hours to spare, I stopped in a small town called ... Read more >

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Sea Lions Are Not Puppies

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By alexisalive | Views [247] | Scholarship Entry

I am fairly adventurous when it comes to animals—I’ve herded cattle, held scorpions, and earned my “sea cred” swimming with sharks. So when I joined 8 other ocean enthusiasts to swim with the sea lions off the coast of Puerto Madryn, it wasn't a huge ... Read more >

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Getting There

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By gettingthere | Views [221] | Scholarship Entry

When I was 19 I travelled to Argentina with a punk band, but I wasn’t punk at all. I was a scared child. I had only left Colombia once, and with my parents. Besides, I was flying with my band mates only until Ecuador, from there on, I was on my own. ... Read more >

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Salta La Linda

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By jononline | Views [219] | Scholarship Entry

Time flies and I’m now back in Buenos Aires, ready to head home. I was absolutely stunned by the landscapes, the different colors of rocks, and particularly the people of Salta and its surroundings. I took too many photos, I have climbed a little, I cycled ... Read more >

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Traveling by train

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By carlosramossala | Views [223] | Scholarship Entry

"Remember to look after your backpack," said the girl that's helping me settle in in Argentina. It was 7a.m. and I was getting out of her car to jump on the train that takes you from the suburbs of Buenos Aires to downtown Buenos Aires. I followed her ... Read more >

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A time travelling experience in Argentina

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By elenapsc | Views [186] | Scholarship Entry

I had immediately understood why people had so strongly recommended me Iruya, one of the last outposts of the original indigenous Argentinian culture, left untouched by the immigration fluxes that would forever change the human panorama of the country.... Read more >

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A Knight In Buenos Aires

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By nathangray1110 | Views [195] | Scholarship Entry

We had already stumbled into the third bar of our day drunk tour through Buenos Aires before I realized that I didn't rightly know where we were. My companion and I had set out to the drifting strains of a milonga but the neighborhood our feet had found ... Read more >

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In the middle of the Ocean

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By solivagant | Views [234] | Scholarship Entry

When I got on that ship, I knew what I would have seen, but I couldn't predict what I would have felt. I remember the capitan, Edoardo, he had that kind of glance in the eyes that one would never forget, ice-blue eyes penetrating my dark eyes. I remember ... Read more >

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Necochea

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By centimeterbycentimeter | Views [225] | Scholarship Entry

Necochea is a small city in the west coast of Argentina with no more than 90,000 inhabitants. It is about 500 kilometers away from Buenos Aires, near Mar del Plata. It is also considered to be one of the most important ports in the country. It is a rather ... Read more >

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Problems in the eve

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By pauloraviere | Views [240] | Scholarship Entry

That afternoon when I arrived in Bariloche, eager to see snow for the first time in my life, the only thing I got was a thick cold rain. Ok, I came from the arid Brazilian backlands, but I’d seen rain two or three times. I hadn’t done that 20-hour bus ... Read more >

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The Old Bus

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By priscilamotta | Views [254] | Scholarship Entry

Inside the bus, the driver did of the Portuguese an international language to understand the destination of passengers. The couple was trying to contain the excited children, in a serious Spanish, worthy of parent educators. While the backpackers to carry ... Read more >

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Nothing but the road

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By eastorwest | Views [226] | Scholarship Entry

Our plan was to get from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia by car. That was meaning more than 3 000 km of driving, a distance we covered in one week. When you travel by car your biggest adventure becomes a stop in a gas station, a funny vehicle passing by, a wild ... Read more >

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