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95 Reviews Vicente López a must see: absolutely NOT !! Vicente López pleasant to stay: absolutely YES !! Vicente López is a residential neighbourhood in the northern part of (greater) Buenos Aires. About 25.000...
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La Boca Buenos Aires
29 Reviews Some Bs As quarters has a lot of collapsed buildings but La Boca sounds like all is the same... in some features remember some places or buildings that everybody have seen in La Habana....mostly are...
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Plaza de Mayo, Goverment House, el Cabildo The Cathedral, etc. Buenos Aires
25 Reviews Among Casa Rosada located in plaza de Mayo and Puerto Madero this huge square split in two areas this part of the city... its a crowded area with lot of traffic in each direction ,,be careful crossing...
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San Telmo Buenos Aires
10 Reviews San Telmo is my favourite neighbourhood in Buenos Aires..perhaps it reminded mi clearly to Gracia quarter in Barcelona......the streets ..squares like Dorrego ...were so similar and really nice to...
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Recoleta Buenos Aires
20 Reviews I finally arrived in the cemetery. and to tell you by the truth, when some woman offered me a map of the cemetery. i really regreted not to do. yeah, all the locations are almost similar the most...
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Monuments Buenos Aires
9 Reviews This flower like monument stands at the Plaza of the United Nations. I think this is one of the most unusual sculptures that I've seen. "Floralis Generica" by architect Eduardo Catalano is a gigantic...
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Florida Street Buenos Aires
7 Reviews Its a pedestrian boulevar that cross microcentro area with two ends, the first just over Plaza de Mayo and the other in Parque San Martin on the way to Retiro ...my first impression there was "WOW" i...
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Palermo Buenos Aires
18 Reviews Of course here you can assist horse races, but there's also a casino there, only with slot machines. It is worth a visit, the building is amazing! Por supuesto que aca se pueden ver carreras de...
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Tango Buenos Aires
7 Reviews Because tango is porteno and porteno only, you will find it all around Buenos Aires. Street performers, some of the, very very good, paintings, names of streets of famous tango songs, famous boliches...
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9 de Julio's avenue Buenos Aires
8 Reviews The widest in the world ... looks great....the first time i saw it i was attonished wow!! such a wide place and long at the same time...wider than Champs Elysées in Paris and crowded by cars going up...
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Aerial sights of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires
3 Reviews Have your camera ready while landing in Buenos Aires in the day time, especially at dawn or sunset. As plane will go parallel to the River Plate, you'll be able to take some nice landscape...
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Belgrano Buenos Aires
5 Reviews Barrancas of Belgrano it's located (obviously) in Belgrano. On weekends many people can be seen dancing tango and salsa. Barrancas de Belgrano queda (obviamente) en Belgrano. Los fines de semana se...
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Retiro Buenos Aires
9 Reviews the famous argentian plastic artistic marthe minujin create the tower of book with 7 floor ,name babel is in the square san martin, in retiro, the entry is free and there are more of 200.000 books is...
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Architecture Buenos Aires
6 Reviews I loved the architecture of Buenos Aires. I've never been to Paris, but I imagine the buildings must look a lot like some of the buildings in Buenos Aires. They had ornate wrought iron fencing,...
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The National Congress Buenos Aires
3 Reviews Located at the end of Avenida de Mayo its a lush green square full of trees and gardens where people use to have a bite there or feed pigeons.... Walking by Av Mayo you find the Congreso sq at the end...
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Cafe Tortoni Buenos Aires
3 Reviews Its one of the most famous or the most famous bohemian and glamorous places in Bs As located in Avenida de mayo between Piedras and Peru "subte" stations has a great fame among the locals and as some...
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Teatro Colon Buenos Aires
2 Reviews On our first major walking expedition in the downtown area, after checking out the Obelisk on Av. 9 de Julio, we decided to get away from the busy traffic on this huge thoroughfare. It happens that...
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El Obelisco Buenos Aires
7 Reviews Such a beauty ...amazing...spectacular at first sight and could be seen from the 4 ends of 9 de julio Avenue and southern part of Corrientes boulevars and 20 blocks upwards ....The place is Plaza de...
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Puerto Madero and Catalina's Buenos Aires
8 Reviews This place is the old harbour now reconvert like leisure place crowded of chic restaurants and terraces but keeping the huge crane towers destinated to empty the load ships Its located closer to...
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Las Cañitas Buenos Aires
1 Review A new and trendy eating and nightlife area is Las Canitas, located between Avenidas Luis Maria Campos and Libertador in the Palermo District (named because there were once wild sugar canes growing...
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I suggest only using a credit card and cash. It seems difficult to use travellers cheques and some places outside of the big tourist venues dont even take credit cards. The ATMs are all over the city but go in the morning...because sometimes the ATMs run out of cas hon weekends and evenings :) The long summer days!
Hi,I haven´t heard about GIC either... But I have had a very good experience studying Spanish at Verbum school in Buenos Aires. The groups are small and that gives you the opportunity to practise a lot.Good luck!Kajsa I loved the restaurants of Palermo, the cafés and how friendly people are!
In my month or so in Argentina, in all the different places, what I found was that lunches typically start around 1pm with service ending around 4pm. The restaurants are then usually shut (unless you’re in tourist area) until ~9pm. An early dinner is 9pm, but commonly 11pm. Many bars don’t open their doors until midnight, and if you find one that opens before, its guaranteed that you will be the only people there. Discos typically do not really start until 3am and go until the sun rises.Please note that the further south you go, the earlier dinner may be served. For example in Ushuaia, dinner was available at 8pm.
I didn't do it here (did mine in Costa Rica), but Intensive Spanish is taught in Buenos Aires. You can learn Spanish by Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, classes, other methods or by intensive study. Plan on at least a month to get comfortable - you won't be fluent, however, that takes years or 4 months non-stop.Classed in BsAs run US$120/week which is a bargain compared to the US$900 for 2 weeks I paid in Costa Rica.Regardless, you'll interact with locals and have tourism and night time activities which you won't have if you don't take the classes. They also REQUIRE that you speak Spanish from day 1, which is a plus. Do a "home stay" for the greatest learning - language and culture. The overall life of BsAs.
Many hostels in Argentina offer a book swap, whereby you can exchange your book for one from their collection. On a short trip this is probably not something a visitor will avail of, but on a longer trip, such as we're doing, it's an extemely useful idea. Before our trip we had to strictly limit the numbers of books we were carrying (a very difficult task!) but after about 6 weeks we had read most of these. Hence, we started to use book exchanges. In some cases we've had to trade superior books for inferior ones, but it's pot luck really. It's difficult to get English language books in Argentina, especially travel guide books, which, when they are available are usually overpriced. E.g. the Lonely Planet Argentina costs more here than it would in USA or UK. In a good book excahnge though you can usually find a guide book.
Even if you'renot a gardener (or a painter) the colours of Argentina's flowering trees and shrubs in Spring are a delight. From the glowing red of the ceibo (the national tree) or golden shrubby calafate bushes in Patagonia (a variety of berberis - they say if you eat the berry you will come back to Patagonia) there is always something to catch the eye. Golden broom lines the roadsides all around Bariloche - it's not a native and is very invasive but there's no denying its beauty. The native berberis there is a brilliant orange - you'll see it all through the forests.The jungles of Iguazu are home to all sorts of strange plants - including aerial-rooted epiphytes that crowd the branches of trees along the walkways.It's the jacarandas of Buenos Aires that fill the eye completely though as they cast a glorious purple haze over the city.
If you'll be wanting to call home while in Argentina there are several options. There are locotorios which are telephone booths inside a building but are somewhat expensive, you can bring an international phone card from home though you'll be charged quite a bit for this. I discovered while I was down there that you can go to a locotorio, ask for an Hablemas phone card (they come in different amounts 5, 10, 20 pesos) and call home using that. To call the United States I got 1 hour and 6 minutes for a 10 peso card which at the current exchange rate of 3.12 works out to be less than $.05 per minute! The connection was wonderful and the number you dial initially is a toll free number so that you can use it anywhere.
Parque Nacional los Glaciares is definitely the best place to stay. There are two parts: the northern and the southern parts. North, you have El Chalten, very liitle town of the end of the World. It is definitely more an End Of The World town than Ushuaia, for example. It is the little town where all climbers go before going for Fitz Roy. You really feel this mountain atmosphere, which I really love. From there, there are many trekk trips available, close to the FR. So many beautiful landscapes... Just remember that abandoned wooded bar in the middle of nowhere in the mountain, that little pacific blue lake on the top of the trip, just at the foot of the Fitz Roy. Very lonely and desertic place, but amazing and beautiful by its representation. Very strong and cold wind there! South, El Calafate. Don't hesitate to take the one day trip by boat, at the Uppsala glacier. There I met very...
I had been warned that the Argentines are fond of meat, but there's some other things on the menu that are Argentine staples:Milanesa - Like a flat Chicken Kiev (not entirely sure the meat is chicken) covered in breadcrumbs and deep fried. usually served with chips - mmmm, healthy!Empanada - Like a mini cornish pasty - usually served as a starter.Salad - Unless otherwise stated, the salads are just lettuce and tomato.Mate - The Argentines are addicted to the mate, which is a hot water added to leaves and sucked through a metal straw. A sociable drink, the mate is passed around groups for everyone to share.Chivito - Another artery blocker, this is a mound of chips, topped with a few animals worth of meat and served on a tiny portion of salad.Vegetarians will have a pretty hard time in Argentina, although there are quite a few pasta options on the menu - the Italian immigrants influence!As...
http://www.turismo.gov.ar/Is the official government web site and offers some really useful information as well as links to the provincial tourist web sites. I find it most helpful in traveling around the country.
The Glu Hotel Buenos Aires
1 Review and 223 Opinions I was snookered by the website and photos. The hotel is not what is seems. Its located in Palermo,...
Huentala Hotel Boutique Mendoza
4 Reviews and 134 Opinions This is a good hotel, clean, friendly and well located. Staff are helpful.
Tierra de Leyendas Ushuaia
6 Reviews and 250 Opinions Have to give this place 5*s. lovely accomadation, great hosts that really look after you. A short...
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Q: hey guys i'll be in BsAs from 15th of december until end of january. sadly i don't have really time to travel around, only 4...
A: Only one night in Ushuaia! You're joking! All that way! There is so much to see on both land and water. I suggest that you look at the travel guides section of VT as...
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