Destination: Argentina
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Mon, 9 Jun 2008 | By sarahandphil | Views [3472] | Comments [2]
Hi everyone, Well, we have made it to the other side of South America! We first caught a bus across the Andes to Mendoza, where we spent a couple of nights before carrying on to Buenos Aires, where we´ve been for the past five days. After spending ... Read more >
Wed, 7 Jan 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [2616] | Comments [1]
The
first time I had heard of El Bolson was when a friend recounted a
tale about a friend of hers when in Buenos Aires. It had been settled
(if that's the right word) by a bunch of hippies in the late
seventies ... Read more >
Tags: fair, hat, hippy, hostel, trekking
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2266]
I was walking with my full backpack to the bus terminal one evening in Buenos Aires when I was stopped by two middle aged men. One pulled out a knife and demanded that I hand over everything. Without hesitation, I gave them my pack and they fled. Luckily, ... Read more >
Tags: argentina, backpacking, theft
Sat, 6 Aug 2011 | By patdev | Views [2051]
This hiking destination was
high on our must-do-before-we-get-too-decrepit list. The two treks we took are on
every list of the top 20 best hikes of the world. The trails were extremely well-marked
and easily accessible by bus, so there ... Read more >
Tue, 7 Jun 2011 | By runningkites | Views [987]
Buenos Aires is a city that takes you captive as if by some intense sensually infused magic stroke. Avenida Indepencia is lined with 16 lanes of traffic, the sidewalk cafes of Palermo are bursting with a vital energy, noises fused by busquers and choripan ... Read more >
Tags: argentina, buenos aires, la boca, palermo, polo, tango
Thu, 4 Oct 2007 | By lionel14 | Views [899] | Comments [2]
ENGLISH
After a bit
of rough start - I thought I couldn’t t stay with the family so spent few days
looking for alternative places to stay… finally I could stay and started
focusing on the classes (Spanish and editing) and ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sun, 2 Aug 2009 | By daniryan | Views [827]
What an interesting place Buenos Aires is, not in an entirely positive way but not negative either. I´m not too sure whether my experience is due to me being on my own, and female, or whether I was focussed on getting to Cusco, or because the people ... Read more >
Tue, 9 Sep 2008 | By doreen-b | Views [611]
There is an interesting recycling system here. There are families (and I say that because I always see children doing this) who use a horse and cart to pick up the cardboard from in front of the homes, where the garbage bags are placed (and I might ... Read more >
Sat, 7 Feb 2015 | By jugap | Views [611]
Well I'm sorry it has been so long between entries. Due to my stupidity I dropped our tablet in Rio de Janeiro and thus rendered it unusable.So as it was beyond my patience to do a blog on the smartphone I left the final 55 days of our trip til home ... Read more >
Sat, 14 Oct 2017 | By sorkoo | Views [566]
Not once during the first 4 months of our trip did we think we would end up in... Patagonia!!! From Portes Natales, Chile we boarded a bus for the small town of El Calafate, Argentina. Even though we’ve crossed many borders by now I still get ... Read more >
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 | By | Views [308] | Scholarship Entry
I was on my own in Manhattan, quite sad because my nephew was born in Argentina and I was far away from my family. Also it was the most depressing day of the week in every part of the World: it was Sunday. I decided to walk around the alphabet city, ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Tue, 26 May 2015 | By | Views [283] | 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 >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
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