Archive for the ‘Andes’ Category
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Tiny bursts of yellow light from street lamps and the low-slung red and blue awnings of fruit and vegetable markets were a blur as our taxi barreled down Avenida 25 de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The white-paint lane markings were just a suggestion.
Buenos Aires is thick with people and buildings ...
Posted in Andes, Argentina, Bariloche Argentina, Buenos Aires Argentina, Cuyo, Mendoza Argentina, Patagonia, South America | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
The details of the Dakar 2012, which will take place between 1st and 15th January in Argentina, Chile and Peru, were unveiled this morning in Paris. The route's characteristics, just like the game of musical chairs evident amongst the pretenders to the crown, promise a race full of thrills and ...
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Freshman Evelyn Reilly is jumping into her first semester at the University of Minnesota in a unique way: She will bike from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Lima, Peru, crossing the Andes Mountains twice and camping in local communities or remote, unpopulated areas along the way.
She’s taking “Food & Agriculture from ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Fine wine and excellent cuisine are highlights of this tour that will take you to Argentina and Chile’s top winemaking regions.
Enjoy stays at exclusive boutique hotels and opportunities to dine at state-of-the-art wineries as you travel from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires to Mendoza, one of the most famous wine producing regions ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Kansas softball outfielder Maggie Hull left the comforts of Lawrence to spend the off-season studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Less than a month after leading the Jayhawks with a .346 batting average and 49 RBI this spring, the Lawrence, Kan., native traveled to the South American country for a six-week ...
Posted in Andes, Argentina, Buenos Aires Argentina, Cuyo, Mendoza Argentina, South America, Study Abroad in Argentina, Uruguay | Comments Off
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Although it seems as if the whole world is being hammered by icy winds and brutal snowstorms, it is winter only in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s summer, and in South America, there is plenty of warm weather, sun, sandy beaches perfect for snorkeling, surfing and sunbathing ...
Posted in Andes, Argentina, Bariloche Argentina, Patagonia, South America | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Any country that covers an area of almost 2.8 million square kilometres (over 10 times the size of Great Britain) is going to offer a huge variety of landscapes and outdoor activities. Argentina certainly fulfils that expectation, from the arid high plateau of the Altiplano on the Bolivian border to ...
Posted in Andes, Argentina, Argentine Mideast, Argentine Northeast, Argentine Northwest, Bariloche Argentina, Buenos Aires Argentina, Buenos Aires Province, Cordoba Argentina, Cuyo, Mendoza Argentina, Patagonia, Salta Argentina, South America | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Marc Coma in bikes and Nasser Al-Attiyah in cars built up hefty leads after Wednesday's 10th stage of the Dakar Rally to close in on the overall victory as the race returned to Argentina ahead of Sunday's finish in Buenos Aires.
The stage crossed a 13,000-foot pass in the Andes, with ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Volkswagen maintains one-two lead on the "roof of the Dakar"
Volkswagen continues to lead the Dakar Rally after clinching its fourth stage win in a row with two Race Touareg 3 cars. The fourth leg featured the extremely demanding crossing of the Andes at an altitude of more than 4,400 ...
Posted in Andes, Argentina, Argentine Northwest, Chile, Dakar Rally Argentina Chile, Jujuy Argentina, South America | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 13th, 2010
The 22st edition of the 1000 MIllas Sport was held November 25-28, 2010 in the Patagonia region of Argentina’s Andes mountains. Argentina’s version of the Mille Miglia Storica consists of 150 participants driving pre-1980 automobiles over 1000 miles of some of the most breathtaking roads in the world.
The base of ...
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