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Visiting the Village of San Ignacio in Misiones Province
The remains of the walls at San Ignacio Miní. Photo © David Bacon, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Home to Argentina’s best-kept Jesuit-mission ruins, the village of San Ignacio is an essential stopover on the overland route to or from Iguazú’s famous falls. It also enjoys literary cel
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Parque Nacional Quebrada del Condorito
Rain in the distance viewed from Parque Nacional Quebrada del Condorito. Photo © Tjeerd Wiersma, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
The world’s most famous carrion carnivore, the majestic Andean condor, reaches its easternmost range in the Altas Cumbres (High Summits) of the Sierras de Có
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Esteros del Iberá: Argentina's Biggest Unsung Attraction
Scattered open-water lagoons lie within an endless horizon of marshland grasses. Photo © Miguel Vieira, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Argentina’s biggest unsung attraction, Esteros del Iberá is a breathtaking wetland covering up to 13,000 square kilometers (estimates vary), nearly 15
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Wineries in Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Bodega Nieto Senetiner in Luján de Cuyo. Photo © Javier González, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
CuyoSouth of Mendoza proper, Luján de Cuyo is one of two key wine districts in the greater metropolitan area. It’s possible to get around by public transportation, but the best option woul
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The Geography of Argentina
Argentina’s natural landscapes range from northeastern subtropical wetlands to the endless pampas grasslands, Andean uplands, and sprawling Patagonian steppes. Photo © Kamila Kowalska/123rf.
Stretching from the northern desert tropics through the temperate pampas grasslands to the suban
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Argentines' Dollar Crisis Deepens
While flying from Buenos Aires to Santiago in 2002, I found myself seated next to an Argentine, bound for New York on business who, because his government had frozen bank accounts, found himself cashless. Imposed to prevent capital flight during a severe economic crisis, the so-called corralito ha
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Money Matters: Exchange Rate Update
Money is everyone’s concern, especially when traveling overseas. Getting accustomed to foreign currency, knowing where and when to change it, and calculating what things cost can be challenge even when it’s a country you know well. Governments have their own issues, which may be why Chile has rece
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Peso Problems Precipitate PR Crisis
Travelers exchange money at a station in Ezeiza. Photo © Wayne Bernhardson.
Argentina’s money scenario keeps getting stranger and more unpredictable, quickly becoming a major political football (or soccer ball, if you prefer). Concerned (some would say panicky) about capital flight and its ability
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Argentina's Parque Nacional Iguazú
Visiting the Iguazu Falls on the Argentinian side. Photo © Aaron Epstein, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
In the Guaraní language, iguazú means “big waters,” and the good news is that the thunderous surge of Iguazú Falls—perhaps the planet’s greatest chain of cascades—continues to plun
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Fortress Falklands: A Book Review
In early 1986, shortly after arriving in the Falkland Islands for my dissertation research under a Fulbright-Hays research fellowship, my wife and I took a hike into the hills west of Stanley, the Islands’ capital and only town. Hoping to glimpse the panorama of Stanley Harbour and the East Falkla
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Taxing the Tourist: Argentina's AFIP Aims Low
Photo © Wayne Bernhardson.Many times recently I’ve touched on the topic of exchange rates and, in that regard, I have to say that it’s so much easier to write on Chile or Uruguay, whose juridical and macroeconomic stability make it relatively simple to inform potential visitors of what they’l
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An Introduction to Argentina for Volunteers
Expanish is a Spanish-language school in Buenos Aires that also offers combined language study and volunteer work programs. Photo courtesy of Expanish.
Argentina evokes mystery, romance, and beauty. Bordered by Chile to the west; Brazil, Uruguay, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east; and Bolivia and
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Volunteer with Fundación Banco de Alimentos, Buenos Aires
Located just outside of Buenos Aires, the Food Bank Foundation serves as a link between food-producing and food-marketing companies, and people with hunger across Greater Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires and Vicinity
Volunteers typically stay in Buenos Aires and take public transportation (about one ho
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Neuquén’s Dinosaur Triangle
Where there’s oil, there are dinosaurs, and Neuquén’s sedimentary steppe is one of Argentina’s late-Cretaceous hot spots. By rental car, a triangle of sites northwest, west, and southwest of the provincial capital makes an ideal (if long) full-day excursion. One of these, Lago Los Barreales, is c
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What to See in Recoleta & Barrio Norte
Recoleta, where the line between vigorous excess and serene but opulent eternity is a thin one, is one of the city’s most touristed barrios, and one of its prime shopping zones. In everyday usage, “Recoleta” describes the area in and around its namesake cemetery, but it also encompasses much of Ba
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Visiting Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
On the eastern Andean slopes, Parque Nacional Los Glaciares comprises over 750,000 hectares, where slowly flowing ice gives birth to clear frigid rivers and vast lakes, interspersed with Magellanic forests, along the Chilean border west and north of El Calafate. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it’s
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Visiting San Martín de los Andes
Barely a century since its founding as a frontier fortress, San Martín de los Andes has become one of the lakes district’s most fashionable resorts. Nestled in the hills near Lago Lácar, it owes its appeal to its surrounding scenery, the trout that thrash in Parque Nacional Lanín’s lakes and st
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Sports & Recreation in San Martín de los Andes
Thanks to Lanín’s proximity, San Martín de los Andes is a mecca for everything from hiking and climbing to mountain biking, white-water rafting, trout fishing, and skiing.
Overlooking San Martín, at a maximum elevation of 1,980 meters, Cerro Chapelco ski resort draws enthusiastic winter crowds
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Volunteer with Spanish in Bariloche, Argentina
Bariloche is a pleasant, busy ski resort town of 110,000 located on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi, in the foothills of the Andes in northern Patagonia.
Summer daytime temperatures range 18-26°C (64-79°F), but nights are still downright cold, so bring a sweater and a coat.The school works with s
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Discover Argentine Tierra del Fuego
If Patagonia is exciting, the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) is electrifying. In days of sail, the reputation of its sub-Antarctic weather and ferocious westerlies obsessed sailors whether or not they had ever experienced the thrill—or terror— of “rounding the Horn.” Af
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