What to See in Palermo, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires’s largest barrio, Palermo boasts wide-open spaces thanks to 19th-century dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, whose estate stretched almost from Recoleta all the way to Belgrano. After his exile, the property passed into the public domain and, ironically enough, the sprawling Parque 3 de Fe
Discover Parque Nacional Los Arrayanes
Argentina’s Parque Nacional Los Arrayanes is best reached through nearby La Villa, a lakeside town neighboring Villa La Angostura. Los Arrayanes is larger than the town of La Villa, but they’re so close that it feels more like a sprawling city park.
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La Cuarenta: Argentina's Most Adventurous Road
From the Bolivian border near La Quiaca to its terminus near Río Gallegos, RN 40 has been Argentina’s great, unfinished interior highway. Some segments of “La Cuarenta” (cuarenta means “40”) in the central Cuyo provinces have long been smoothly paved, while others in the A
Sightseeing in Río Gallegos, Argentina
Travelers often dismiss windy Río Gallegos as merely a port and service center for Anglo-Argentine wool estancias (ranches) and, more recently, the petroleum industry. Dating from 1885, near continental Argentina’s southern tip, it has a handful of museums, historical landmarks, and other distinc
What to See in Buenos Aires's San Telmo Barrio
San Telmo, with its narrow colonial streets, antiques shops, and street fairs, appeals to Argentines and foreigners alike. Six blocks south of Plaza de Mayo, it’s a fine walkers’ neighborhood—especially on Sundays, when authorities close most of Calle Defensa to motor vehicles.
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Explore Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi
In 1903, Patagonian explorer Francisco Pascasio Moreno donated three square leagues of “the most beautiful scenery my eyes had ever seen,” at Lago Nahuel Huapi’s west end, near the Chilean border, to “be conserved as a natural public park.” Citing the United States’ example
Visiting Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego
For pilgrims to the uttermost part of the earth, Mecca is Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego’s Bahía Lapataia, where RN 3 ends on the Beagle Channel’s north shore. About 18 kilometers west of Ushuaia, the park hugs the Chilean border as its 63,000 hectares stretch from the Beagle Channel north acros
Sightseeing in Puerto Deseado, Patagonia
Bypassed by RN 3—but not by nature or history—Puerto Deseado is one of Patagonia’s underrated pleasures. Visited by Magellan, settled by Spanish whalers, explored by Darwin in 1833, and resettled half a century later, it clings to its pioneer ambience in what Francisco P. Moreno called “the
Visiting Área Natural Protegida Península Valdés
Coastal Patagonia’s top destination, World Heritage Site Península Valdés is the place where the great southern right whale arrives to breed and birth in winter. Protected since 1937, the ballena franca occupies a nearly unique position as a “natural monument”—a designation normally
Visiting Parque Nacional Los Alerces
Parque Nacional Los Alerces owes its existence and name to Fitzroya cupressoides, the coniferous monarch of the humid Valdivian forests, also known as false larch or Patagonian cypress. Easily western Chubut’s most popular attraction, the park draws campers and fishing aficionados to its forests a
Plan a Visit to El Bolsón, Argentina
El Bolsón, Argentine Patagonia’s counterculture capital, may be the place to replace your faded tie-dyes. It’s also a beauty spot in a fertile valley between stunning longitudinal mountain ranges ideal for hiking. So far, despite completion of the paved highway from Bariloche, this self-styled “ec
The Penguin March of Punta Tombo
On barren South Atlantic shores, 126 kilometers south of Trelew, some 200,000 pairs of Magellanic penguins waddle ashore every austral spring to nest on only 210 hectares at Punta Tombo. Despite its isolation, more than 100,000 visitors a year, and up to 2,500 in a single day, find their way to Ár
5 Reasons to Add Patagonia to Your Bucket List
What makes Patagonia worthy of inclusion on your bucket list? Here, the imagination runs as wild as the wildlife. Since the Magellan expedition’s first accounts of giant mega-fauna and hidden cities of gold, the unparalleled diversity of Patagonia’s landscapes have inspired generations of tr
Visiting Villa la Angostura, Argentina
On Lago Nahuel Huapi’s north shore, Villa la Angostura lies within Bariloche’s economic orbit. Its proximity to less developed parts of the lake, to Parque Nacional Los Arrayanes, and to the Cerro Bayo winter-sports center, though, has helped established its own identity—with an air of exclu
Visit Junín de los Andes in Northern Patagonia
Where the steppe meets the sierra, the Río Chimehuín gushes from the base of 3,776-meter Volcán Lanín to become one of Argentina’s top trout streams near Junín de los Andes. Calling itself Neuquén’s “trout capital,” Junín also offers access to the central sector of Parque Nacional Lanín, which tak
Cruising the Fjords of Fuegia
Short of Antarctica itself, some of the Southern Hemisphere’s most awesome scenery occurs in the Beagle Channel and southern Tierra del Fuego. And as usual, Charles Darwin left one of the most vivid descriptions of the channel named for the vessel on which he sailed:
The lofty mountains on the nor
Doing business & staying in touch while in Argentina
Argentina: Doing business & staying in touch
Argentina Weather, Climate and Geography
Argentina Weather, climate and geography
Argentina History, Language and Culture
Argentina History, Language and Culture
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