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Kayaking in Tigre on the Parana Delta with El Dorado Kayak

6 June 2010

This post is WAY overdue. Thank you for the reminders! Almost 2 months ago we went on a day trip to the Tigre Delta to go Kayaking. Our spanish school (Vamos!) recommended a tour company to us called El Dorado Kayak. A day of kayaking outside of the city sounded great, so we signed up [...]

Our trip to the Northwest of Argentina (the NOA) in summary

3 June 2010

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Our trip to the Northwest of Argentina (the NOA) in summary

In case you haven’t caught every post over the last couple of weeks, I wanted to put a quick summary of all of the posts related to our one-week trip to the Northwest of Argentina. As a reminder, we went to Salta, Cafayate, (through the the valle de Calchaquies) and then up north to the [...]

Review: Patios de Cafayate

29 May 2010

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Patios de Cafayate is a boutique Starwood property located in Cafayate, a town in the wine country of Salta province. It’s a beautiful property with only 30 rooms in a great location – the landscapes surrounding Cafayate and on the drive down from Salta city are stunning (check out our Salta trip review). We were [...]

Review: El Estrebe parilla

29 May 2010

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This review is a long time overdue. El Estrebe is a parilla (basically means a restaurant that focuses on steak, for those unaware) that is very close to our apartment–on Pena near the corner of Pueyrredon. We walked by it several times as we were exploring the neighborhood when we first got here and noticed [...]

Trip report on Salta and northwest Argentina

25 May 2010

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Trip report on Salta and northwest Argentina

We just got back from a weeklong trip to Salta and northwest Argentina, and let’s just say that we’re very appreciative of all that Buenos Aires has to offer. We’ve heard that the rest of the country thinks porteños are snobby and that, in reverse, porteños think people from the provinces are unsophisticated and that [...]

Bad experience with a local guide in Salta

25 May 2010

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Well, we’re back in Buenos Aires after a week in the Northwest of Argentina (Salta and Jujuy provinces). Jen is working on a post that will give a full overview of our trip with pictures and so forth, so we should get that up in the next day or so. In the mean time, my [...]

Review: Flecha Bus to Salta in Cama-Suite

18 May 2010

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Review: Flecha Bus to Salta in Cama-Suite

Ok, ok, ok. So everyone here in Argentina pretty much says that when you travel domestically you should take a bus even if it’s 20+ hours each way. While they do mention that it is cheaper as one of the reasons, by and large they say things like: “Argentina has really figured out how to [...]

Vacation #2 . . . via 20-hr. bus ride???

16 May 2010

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Vacation #2 . . . via 20-hr. bus ride???

After hearing so many great things about Salta and the northwest of Argentina, we’re off this evening to check it out for ourselves. Planning the trip has been fun so far – we’re hoping it pays off when we get there. More to come, but in the meantime, here are a couple of thoughts [...]

Dear Aerolineas Argentina…

28 April 2010

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Dear Aerolineas Argentina, You let us down. I’m writing to express my extreme disappointment that our ticket purchasing experience was so anticlimactic. You may think that we had unreasonably high expectations, but I think you’d have to admit that it was you that raised our expectations by leading us on so tantalizingly in the early [...]

How to find a Spanish school in Buenos Aires (we love ours!)

21 April 2010

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One of the major reasons we wanted to come to Buenos Aires was to learn Spanish. We didn’t realize at the time that Argentine Spanish is a bit, shall we say, special – they use “vos” instead of “tu” to mean “you”, and they pronounce everything with a lovely Italian-sounding accent (you may be familiar [...]