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Introducing Argentina
Just wait till you get to Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires is like jumping aboard a moving train. Outside the taxi window, a blurred mosaic of drab apartment blocks and haphazard architecture whizzes by as you shoot along the freeway toward the center of town. The driver – probably driving way too fast while chain-smoking and talking incessantly about government corruption – finally merges off the freeway. Then the real city appears, the cafés, the purple jacaranda flowers draped over the sidewalks, stylish porteños (residents of Buenos Aires) walking purposefully past the newspaper stands and candy kiosks and handsome early-20th-century stone facades.
Get people free-associating on the word ‘Argentina,’ and it’s quickly apparent why the country has long held travelers in awe: tango, Patagonia, beef, soccer, Tierra del Fuego, passion, Mendoza wine country. Get them riffing a bit more on the subject, and their wanderlust will be inflamed: from the soul-stirring Parque Nacional Iguazú in the country's subtropical north, to the thunderous, crackling advance of the Perito Moreno Glacier in the south, Argentina's natural attractions are the stuff travelers' dreams are made of.
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Ice-hiking on Glaciar Perito Moreno
19 June 2009
Underneath our feet the ice shifts and sighs. We hear the crack and crash of an iceberg calving in the...
Latest headlines for Argentina
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Swine flu emergency in Argentina
1 July 2009 11:30AM
A health emergency is announced to fight a swine flu outbreak in the Argentine city and province of Buenos Aires.
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Defeat shakes Argentine first couple
29 June 2009 11:26PM
Argentina's first couple suffered a stunning setback from Sunday's mid-term elections. What next, asks the BBC's Candace Piette in Buenos Aires.
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Argentine head set for poll blow
29 June 2009 9:08AM
President Cristina Fernandez' party seems set to lose control of Argentina's Congress, after Sunday's mid-term elections.
