Rio Iguazú and Rio Paraná serve as the borders between Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina. The three countries have each erected painted obelisks to mark their…
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We’d seen so much our first day. Little did we know we were about to have our minds blown—again. We bee-lined it back to the…
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Argentinian Spanish has a unique accent that has developed in part from the high percentage of Italians that migrated here (over 40% of the current…
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How could we go to Argentina without checking out Iguazú Falls? We couldn’t, obviously. After getting up at the buttcrack of dawn, we landed in…
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By the zoo, the planetarium, and blocks of parks and greenery in Buenos Aires sits the biggest Japanese Garden outside of Japan. It’s a wonderful…
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My first thought was Why is there a theater named after Columbus? Surprisingly, our tour guide addressed this question almost immediately, as if she read my…
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In my search for closed-door restaurants, I kept stumbling across high praise for Casa Saltshaker. While we didn’t end up choosing to dine here (went to…
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There’s a film festival going on in Buenos Aires! It started on April 13 and ends on the 24th, the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine…
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What a fantastic show! We learned from our narrative tango tour guide Francisca, that the traditional typical tango orchestra is made of four bandoneónes (accordion-like…
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Recoleta cemetery is the #1 attraction of Buenos Aires (outside of the mandatory steak and tango experiences). For now, it remains free to the public, although…
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