This small town is a popular refuge for Tucumanos to escape the summer heat at 2.700 meters altitude. Besides that, the surrounding scenery is truly stunning. Continue Reading →
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Tucuman – The Cradle Of Argentina
This busy, bustling town in the northwest of Argentina is where the declaration of Argentina’s independence from Spain was signed back on July 9th, 1816. Naturally the “Casa de la independencia”, a beautifully restored colonial building, is the must see in town. Portraits of the signatories line the wall of the very room where the document was signed. Continue Reading →
On The Road Again – With Style!
After a whole week in Buenos Aires, it was time to move on … So we took a bus to Tucuman, in Argentina’s most traditional region in the Andean northwest. There we plan to stay one week before heading to the region of Mendoza, our last stop in South America. Continue Reading →
Food For Body & Soul In Buenos Aires
Heidi could not wait to learn all about Argentina’s specific pronunciation, especially the one of Buenos Aires. So she spent her afternoons at Buespanish, a language institute, which she can highly recommend: www.buespanish.com.ar. They have excellent teaching materials, especially developed for providing foreigners with an insight in Argentine’s culture, geography, a bit of history or simply daily affairs. The staff is really competent and they do the utmost to make your stay in Buenos Aires memorable. On two evenings they took us to places that we would have never found ourselves. Continue Reading →
Our Homes In “La Capital”
When we were in Buenos Aires, we mostly stayed in the barrio of Palermo, which is northeast of the centre, very green and full of great restaurants and parks. Continue Reading →
Impressions Of Buenos Aires
This is one of the largest cities in Latino America with 13 million inhabitants, but fortunately it does not show the usual symptoms of such a “megapolis”. Actually it is quite a pleasant place to visit and to live: the ever increasing numbers of tourists and expatriates are the living proof. The city offers an incredible amount of cultural activities, there is an abundance of parks and tree lined streets, the food is great and plentiful. Plus, the nightlife rules! Continue Reading →
Rosario: “La Mejor Ciudad Para Vivir”
Rosario, Argentina’s third largest city with about one million inhabitants is situated right on Rio Paraná. It is a university town and Che Guevara’s birthplace. Continue Reading →
Long & Unpleasant Bus Ride Through The Pampas
Back in Posada we spent most of the afternoon in an Internet café to escape the heat, before we started our 1.000 kilometer bus journey to Rosario. There we managed to find reasonably priced online tickets to the Easter Islands, Tahiti and Rarotonga, after a travel agency in Posada gave us an absurdly expensive quote. Continue Reading →
Misiones San Ignacio & Santa Ana
San Ignacio was our first stop, since it is the best restored mission in Argentina. When we arrived early afternoon, the city was baking. There were no people in the street and no sound to be heard, not even a dog barking. We checked into Hotel San Ignacio, one of four accommodations in town and the first hotel we passed, actually the most comfortable one. It was quite a funny place, a hotel & bar and pool hall in the evening. You could also buy mobile phones at the reception. There we hid until 7 o’clock, when it had finally cooled down enough to visit the very sight. Continue Reading →
The Jesuit Missions
Early morning the next day, we caught the bus to San Ignacio to visit the ruins of the old Jesuit missions, which dates back to the early 17th century. During that time the Jesuits started establishing these so-called “Reducciónes”. By 1732, around 140.000 Guarani lived in 30 missions, most of them in what is today the province of Misiones in the northeast of Argentina, but also in neighboring areas of today Brazil and Paraguay. Continue Reading →