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Tango Buenos Aires
36 Reviews Everywhere you go in Buenos Aires there is someone performing Tango on the street. Crowds gather, the music play, the dancers put on their show in full dance regalia...... If you stop to watch; then...
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Taste mate Buenos Aires
21 Reviews Hola Napa :o) You can find a good "Mate Cup" anywhere in Buenos aires...even in the Supermarket. They are made in several different material. Wood, Calabaza (which is NOT plastic, Plata...there are...
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Kisses Buenos Aires
8 Reviews Five hours down the coast from Buenos Aires, lies the laid back beach resort of Pinamar. We went for the weekend to see what it had it offer and because this is high summer season, it was busy,busy,...
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Dog walkers = Paseadores de perros Buenos Aires
17 Reviews In almost every area where there is a park near by you will find these talented dog walkers. How do they manage to walk more than 6 dogs at a time amazed me. During a walk along the Botanical...
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Personal experiencies with Argentinians Buenos Aires
16 Reviews First, let me say that we meet Adalina twice. Once in Cementerio de la Recoleta and the other time at the Jardin Botanico. We were walking around the cementary when Ferni and I said we wondered if...
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Regarding Food Buenos Aires
23 Reviews Argentine empanadas can be baked or fried depending on the occasion or cook. It is more common in the city to have a baked empanada. They are dough that is filled with filling and folded over into a...
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Pesos, Argentinian currency Buenos Aires
5 Reviews Small bills and change are hard to come by in Buenos Aires so when you are given change make sure to hold on to it as you will need it to pay for small items like the collectivos, cabs, tips and...
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Gauchos / Folklore Buenos Aires
6 Reviews If you like horse riding, you come to Argentina and you have the time, this might be an unique opportunity to ride in the Andes in the Northwest of Argentina...! We are befriended with gauchos in the...
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Language Buenos Aires
7 Reviews Spanish is the native language in Buenos Aires (and all of Argentina) and we found it quite easy to communicate with the locals as we both speak very good Spanish. The Argentinians where quite...
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Wines Buenos Aires
6 Reviews For those who love wine (me!) Buenos Aires (Argentina in general) has a wonderful selection of fantatic wines. There are many "Bodegues" which are wineries here in Argentina producing some of the best...
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Quilmes Buenos Aires
4 Reviews Quilmes is the local beer and you will find that no matter where you go, you can order a Quilmes. I particularly don't care too much for beer (except for Leffe Blondes and an occassional pale ale),...
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Protests Buenos Aires
17 Reviews piqueteros? that's how we call the people who protest on the streets. List of the most common places where there are protest: - Plaza de Mayo - The historical square, protest are mainly located in...
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Yerba Mate, South AmericaMade by steeping the leaves of the South American rainforest holly tree in hot water, yerba mate ranks among the traveling world’s most surprising and pleasing discoveries.Served in a hollow gourd with a metal straw, the caffeinated bevvie is so much a part of the South American scene -- popular in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil-- that drinking it there instantly turns you into a debonair local.
one easy way to tell locals from foreigners..just look at when they say hello to each other. A foreigner will normally shake hands, the Argentine will normally give a kiss on the cheek. Really, its not a big deal. Men will give each other a little peck, women etc. its as normal as the sun rising and setting every day. Most locals don't tend to kiss foreigners since they know its not their way of doing things. In some more formal business settings it is also not practiced. There is also a status thing, you don't normally see a kiss between people of very different social status. You will also notice the distance between people, the distance a person holds oneself from another, in conversation for example, is far less in Argentina than in Europe or the States. When greeting, they follow a protocol, you always greet the oldest (or more important) person first and so on down the line.
Tango dancers seem to everywhere you look in Buenos Aries. You can come across them performing in the street almost any place there are crowds, especially areas like San Telmo and Boca. There are also tango shows and clubs. Many visitors come to Buenos Aires to take tango classes.There are a number of theories about the origin of the word "tango" in Argentina. One of the more popular in recent years has been that it came from the Niger Congo languages of Africa. Another theory is that the word "tango", already in common use in Andalusia to describe a style of music, lent its name to a completely different style of music in Argentina The dance form derives from the Cuban habanera, the Uruguayan milonga and candombe, and is said to contain elements from the African community in Buenos Aires, influenced by ancient African dance forms. The dance originated in Buenos Aires and Montevideo...
One thing you'll notice in Buenos Aires, possibly more than in any other city in the world, are the Paseaperros or professional dog walkers. You'll see them sitting around, with a pack of dogs on leashes, in almost every major park in the city. As the fashionable dog in Buenos Aires at the moment is the Canadian Husky, you can see why they need professional walkers. But, the truth is the 'walkers' are mostly semi-vagrants who seem to do a hell of a lot more sitting, talking and smoking together than actual walking.To be a dog walker you must become registered with the city authorities, be over 18 years of age, provide proof of citizenship, sign a sworn affidavit, and pay an annual levy of A$200. Dog walkers must carry their official accreditation with them at all times and they are not allowed to walk more than eight dogs at a time, although they all seem to disregard this rule.I guess...
The Falklands War Veterans demonstrating in Plaza de Mayo, with their flags and banners, have become something of a tourist attraction in central Buenos Aires. Their protests are aimed at demanding an increase in their pensions, access to better quality health care, home loans and official recognition of their service and suffering in the form of monetary compensation. They have achieved some success, most notably in 2004, when they managed to get their pension more than doubled.
Argentinia's wine industry is huge, the fifth largest in the world, with the vast bulk of it going for home consumption, though changing methods and a concentrated marketing push in the last few years has seen exports and overseas recognition growing rapidly. For all the varieties of wine that are grown and produced there, one stands head and shoulders above the others - Malbec. Introduced from south-eastern France in the 1860s, Malbec hasn't been grown much anywhere in Europe for 50 years now and when it is it's mostly used for blended wines. It's a difficult grape, highly susceptible to mildew, frost and rot but low humidity, flood irrigation methods and 300 days of sunshine a year suit it perfectly however - and all are available in Argentina. The province of Mendoza is its main area of cultivation and the region that produces the finest Malbecs. Argentianian Malbec drinks young and...
Faded red flags and streamers fluttering over little red roofs caught our eye as we drove across the Uspallata Valley high in the Andes near Mendoza. Getting out to look closer, we found broken toy cars, messages tucked into bottles, red candles and plastic flowers, all sorts of mostly red rubbish and small wooden crosses, in an odd sort of fairy garden or tattered shrine. A bigger, more orderly one had a sign "El Gaucho Gil" . Who was he and what was it all about? The girls at the hotel didn't know but googling at home found an answer.Antonio Gil, 19th century gaucho-turned-bandit has become something of a cross between a local saint and Robin Hood figure to the poor and dispossessed of rural Argentina. A folk healer whose refusal to fight in a provincial civil war made him an outlaw, Gil was known to rob the rich to help the poor. After his execution (unjust maybe, a pardon seemed...
He's remembered everywhere, with a statue, a street, a plaza named for him in towns and cities all over the country. General Jose de San Martin - soldier, Governor of Mendoza, liberator of Chile. Ferociously anti-colonialist but a royalist at heart, he wanted to see a constitutional monarchy installed to rule over his beloved Argentina. When the newly-independent country he had fought for failed to grasp the opportunities for an uncorrupted and unified future, he took himself into self-imposed exile in France in 1827, to die there in 1850, unremembered and unremarked for several years.His body was returned to Argentina in the later years of the 19th century, to be re-interred in Buenos Aires' cathedral, marked by an elaborate tomb that is guarded by soldiers in period uniforms - a national monument (photo 2).With only one or two exceptions, all the statues of the hero face west, (photo...
The calafate bush is a native of southern Argentina and Chile. In the summer they produce a blue-black berry. The berries are used to make jams, sauces, and eaten raw. They say if you eat some of the Calafate berries then you are sure to return.I hope that is true because I ate many berries while I was there. I also bought several jars of preserves home with me.
... the strains of the tango filter into the air of Argentina, part of the heartbeat of the country, and Buenos Aires is the source of the pulse. Born in the bars and brothels of 19th century BA, it was a fusion of Arican and Cuban rhythms with a little touch of Central Europe, and definitely not something for polite society. When it first appeared on the dancefloors of America and Europe in 1913 it caused a sensation, its sensuous rhythms and steps considered scandalous. Intensely intimate but precise and fast moving, tango is unique. You can take your tango in a slickly choreographed show - expensive and very touristy, but undeniably showy and spectacular, or you can find your way to a milonga (a dance hall, where local afficionados dance the night away, starting very late and going on 'til dawn). There are plenty of classes on offer, more and more as the tango craze shows no sign of...
The Glu Hotel Buenos Aires
1 Review and 219 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 131 Opinions This is a good hotel, clean, friendly and well located. Staff are helpful.
Tierra de Leyendas Ushuaia
6 Reviews and 248 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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