Archive for the ‘Bariloche Argentina’ Category
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Buenos Aires - Through a loudspeaker, a violin is making a weeping sound, and two bodies are elegantly moving to the music over the Plaza Dorrego in Buenos Aires.
The air is heavy with the late summer. The asphalt is giving off heat, which is rising into the cloudless evening sky. ...
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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 ...
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
Everybody needs to "get away from it all" from time to time, and what with all the pressures people face nowadays - job (or lack-of-job) stresses, the exploding cost of raising and educating their kids, and so on - they need that escape more than ever. Unfortunately, what with the ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Destinations Awards - Top 25 - Central & South America
1: Machu Picchu, Peru
It's no wonder Machu Picchu is Peru's most-visited site. Dating to the mid-1400s, it's a marvel of mortar-free limestone architecture perched on a high plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle. Get there via train from ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Fun, fast, clean and efficient" is the slogan of the electric convertible that five students from a British university drove from Alaska to Patagonia and that is on show Tuesday in Buenos Aires.
The vehicle, dubbed the SRZero, is the result of a project of 10 engineering students at London's Imperial ...
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Saturday, November 13th, 2010
Forget rain and ramblers: besides fine lakeland scenery, Argentinian Patagonia offers vineyards and spas
The Lake District: rolling fells, boating lakes and streams of ramblers in pastel rainwear. Craning your neck for the B&B's "lake view". Making the best of the weather.
Not snow-capped peaks jutting into cobalt sky. Not isolated emptiness. ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
The World Touring Car Championship is planning events in Argentina and China next season ahead of submitting a draft calendar to the governing FIA.
The series is putting together a 12-meeting calendar.
"Most of them are traditional venues for our championship, although Suzuka will replace Okayama for the Race of Japan," promoter ...
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