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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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This road is called the Carlos Pellegrini (I think) and it had a massive 16-18 lane ONE way traffic. Wow... now that's massive. The biggest road I ever crossed was only about 6-8 lanes so this came as a shocker to me.By the time I got half way, we had to stop to let the traffice go... no kidding☺ The traffic, the meat, the leather goods.☺
The Presidio military prison gave Ushuaia one of its prime reasons for its existence when the first prisoners arrived in 1896. Until the prison was closed in 1947, Argentinas most notorious political convicts spent time in the Presidio. The life and harsh living and work conditions of the prisoners is very well documented in the Presidio.For me, this is a very fascinating place because of this double notion of being emprisoned in jail at the end of the world, where life in such an isolated city as is Ushuaia can already feel like a prison in itself.This is why Ushuaia is my favorite place in Argentina. For more about this great place, visit my special travelpage on Ushuaia.
Geographically Ushuaia is the world's southernmost city, at the end of the world so-to-speak. Located in Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia has grown to more than 50'000 inhabitants. The growth in population took place escpecially over the last two decades, when Ushuaia started to attract companies and labor with tax breaks and and duty-free benefits.Ushuaia is located on the Beagle Channel, which you can see very nicely when you walk through Ushuaias steep streets or go up to the mountains that seem to rise right out of the ocean.It's also the last city before you cross the Drake passage in order to sail to Antarctica. I hope I will get to do this trip one day!
This place is full of Patagonian fossils dating from tprehistoric times when Patagonia was submerged by the ocean. This vast outdoor park is very deserted with its moon-like landscape. Apart from paleontologists, there are very few people here, making this an ideal place to enjoy the silence and the vast spaces of Patagonia.To get here from Madryn, drive to Trelew, Gaiman where you will find signs poiting to the park. Don't worry about getting lost: there are very few streets in Patagonia, chances are you are on the right one!
Like other villages in the vast and sparsely populated Chubut province of Patagonia, Puerto Madryn was founded by Welsh settlers in the 1860s. Other Welsh villages worthwile visiting are Trelew and Gaiman.Puerto Madryn is great introduction to the vast plateaus of Patagonia. Patagonia is a very isolated and lonely place where the beauty relies in the solitude of its nature. If you are interested in topic of Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin's "In Patagonia" is one of the best books written on the subject, full of random little episodes.
The Peninsula Valdes is around an hour drive from Puerto Madryn and is famous for its wildlife with whales, penguins, sea-lions, elefant seals. There are several tour operators in Madryn that will take you Valdes (where there is no accommodation).
Snowboarding in Las Lenas is probably as good as it gets in Latin America. Penitentes, is a much smaller resort, but then again, a lot closer to Mendoza.Most places in Latin America for snowboarding are above the treelines; Las Lenas and Penitentes are no exception. There are not many people snowboarding (and skiing) in Latin America, which means there's never a long wait in front of the lifts, which, on the other hand, might not be as modern as in North America or Europe. Las Lenas does, however, have very modern lifts
Las Lenas in the Mendoza province is for me Latin America's best snowboard resort. Plenty of runs, modern equipment, and great nightlife. It is a bit of an isolated place, there are no other buildings than hotels, and if you don't have reservations in any of these, there are very few other options for accommodation.
After Bariloche, Mendoza was the next stop, the pleasant capital of the Cuyo region, famous for its wines and its proximity to the Andes.Mendoza's center is very easily visited as the streets are laid out in a grid system. There are several nice Plazas or squares, Plaza Independencia and Plaza Espana with its tiles are especially nice for sitting down and relax.
The slopes on Cerro Catedral are around 20 minutes away from Bariloche by minibus. The snowboarding is pretty good, and the skilifts quite modern. There are a couple of accommodations on the bottom of Cerro Catedral, but you are better off staying in Bariloche and buying an all-inclusive package with hotel, skipasses and transport to the slopes.
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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