Archive for the ‘Argentine Northwest’ Category
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Argentina is a a country where just about anything can be found. From a sultry street tango on a bustling street in Buenos Aires to the enormous whip-cracking sound of a house-sized chunk of ice falling from a glacier in Patagonia, Argentina is a land with something for everyone. Finding ...
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Indians too are now travelling abroad a lot more frequently than they did say a decade ago and they are looking aggressively for deals, discounts and freebees. While there are budget holidays which are cheap and affordable there are 'value' holidays which apart from offering some great financial bargains also ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Let’s go round again! After a spell of neglect, the Copa America was brought back in 1987 and has since been staged in all of South America’s 10 footballing nations – in the case of Paraguay, Colombia and Venezuela, for the first time. Now a new circuit begins in Argentina, ...
Posted in Argentina, Argentine Mideast, Argentine Northwest, Buenos Aires Argentina, Copa America Argentina 2011, Cordoba Argentina, Cuyo, Football Soccer Argentina, Jujuy Argentina, Mendoza Argentina, Salta Argentina, South America | 1 Comment »
Friday, July 1st, 2011
La Plata Stadium
Cordoba Stadium
Monumental Stadium - Buenos Aires
Salta Stadium
Mendoza Stadium
Santa Fe Stadium
Jujuy Stadium
San Juan Stadium
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Argentina is now even more accessible to UK travellers, thanks to the new British Airways direct flight from London.
Start your visit at Buenos Aires, arguably Latin America’s most stylish capital. From here fly to the Atlantic coast of northern Patagonia, a striking place of steep, tawny cliffs with a hinterland ...
Posted in Argentina, Argentine Northeast, Argentine Northwest, Buenos Aires Argentina, Iguazu Falls, Patagonia, Salta Argentina, South America | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 »
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Al-Attiyah wins stage 3, Sainz holds overall lead
Volkswagen Motorsports driver Nasser Al-Attiyah won the third stage of the 2011 Dakar Rally in Argentina on Tuesday, but teammate Carlos Sainz continues to hold the overall lead.
Al-Attiyah was third overall in the standings at the start of Tuesday’s stage, and is 3 ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
STAGE 1
In 2010, he left the Dakar with a feeling of full accomplishment after helping Cyril Despres win the race and winning the very last special stage on the road to Buenos Aires. A little less than a year later, Ruben Faria is still racing with the same wingman mission ...
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Cruise the Douro in Portugal, visit rural Italy and tango and sip wine in Argentina with Wine Lovers Tours in 2011.
Now in its 30th year, Wine Lovers Tours is led by Vin Marottoli, a former French, Spanish and Italian teacher who uses his language skills to navigate non-English speaking wine ...
Posted in Argentina, Argentine Northwest, Buenos Aires Argentina, Cuyo, Mendoza Argentina, Salta Argentina, Uruguay, Wine Argentina | 14 Comments »