Activities in Argentina
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Argentina Fiesta Gaucha Day Trip from Buenos Aires
8 hours (Departs Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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Travel through the Argentinean pampas on a full-day trip from Buenos Aires to a typical estancia (ranch). On your relaxing day in the Argentinean countryside, y…
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Spanish in Rosario
The Spanish in Rosario offers enjoyable language programs. It can arrange family stays and volunteer work placements.
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Anuva Wines
US native Daniel Karlin organizes wine tastings – try five boutique vintages with food pairings. Best of all, he’ll send your wines to the USA (arguably BA’s most affordable wine-shipping service) and can deliver within the city.
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Pura Vida Patagonia
Pura Vida Patagonia offers kayaking trips on the Lago Nahuel Huapi, ranging from half-day stints to overnight camp-n-kayak trips, custom designed to match your skill level.
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Very welcoming language institute located just outside Recoleta.
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Feria San Pedro Telmo
On Sundays, San Telmo’s main drag is closed to traffic and the street is a sea of local families and tourists browsing craft stalls, waiting at vendor’s carts for freshly squeezed orange juice, poking through the antique glass ornaments on display on Plaza Dorrego, and listening to street performances by tango orchestras.
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Compañía de Guías de Patagonia
Full-day treks with climbing and ice-hiking on Glaciar Vinciguerra (AR$175) and two-day high-mountain treks to Cerro Alvear (AR$520) with glacier camping.
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Cerro Catedral
Nahuel Huapi's ski resort, Cerro Catedral, was once South America's trendiest, and has been superseded only by Las Leñas (near Mendoza) and resorts in Chile. Las Leñas has far superior snow (dry powder), but it lacks Catedral's strong point: views. There's nothing like looking over the shimmering lakes of Nahuel Huapi from its snowy slopes.
There's a good mix of easy, intermediate and advanced ski runs, with steep advanced runs at the top and some tree runs near the base. Lift lines can be long at this very popular resort, but the capacity is substantial enough and waiting time is generally not excessive.
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Cabalgatas Carol Jones
Most travel agencies along Av Bartolomé Mitre offer horseback riding trips. For something special, contact the amiable Carol Jones at Cabalgatas Carol Jones, who offers half-day horseback riding from her family estancia outside of town. The price includes transport to/from town and an excellent asado outside. She also offers multi-day pack trips by horse. Carol speaks English. All trips require a minimum of two people.
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Cerro Aconcagua
Mendoza is famous for Cerro Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, but the majestic peak is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to climbing and mountaineering here. The nearby Cordón del Plata boasts several peaks topping out between 5000m and 6000m, and there are three important rock-climbing areas in the province: Los Arenales (near Tunuyán), El Salto (near Mendoza) and Chigüido (near Malargüe).
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Caravana de Llamas
Based in the Posada de Luz, Caravana de Llamas is a recommended llama-trekking operator running half-day excursions (AR$140) around Tilcara, day trips in the Salinas Grandes (AR$180) and multiday excursions, including a five-day marathon from Las Yungas lowlands to Tilcara (AR$1750 to AR$2600). The guide is personable and well informed about the area. Llamas are pack animals: you walk, they carry the bags.
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Hike to Garganta del Diablo
Of several interesting walks around Tilcara, the most popular is the two-hour hike to Garganta del Diablo, a pretty canyon and waterfall. Head toward the pucará, but turn left along the river before crossing the bridge. The path to the Garganta leaves this road to the left just after a sign that says 'Cuide la flora y fauna'. Swimming is best in the morning, when the sun is on the pool.
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Day Trip to Colonia from Buenos Aires
10 hours (Departs Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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Escape the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires and immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the historic Uruguayan town of Colonia del Sacramento. On this day trip, …Not LP reviewed
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Maputur
For adventures in the surrounding countryside,Maputur rents mountain bikes for AR$30/40 per half-/full day. It also offers rafting on the Río Manso. Trips on the Manso Inferior (class II to III) cost AR$200 per person (including lunch); on the Manso a la Frontera (class II to IV) trips cost AR$290 (including lunch and dinner).
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Río Colorado
A 5km walk southwest of town leads you to the Río Colorado. Follow the river upstream for about 1½ hours to get to a 10m waterfall, where you can swim. Look out for hidden rock paintings on the way (for a small tip, local children will guide you). You could combine this walk with a visit to Bodega de las Nubes.
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Ampora Wine Tours
Ampora Wine Tours is a well-established operation that concentrates on midrange and top-end wines. It has tours leaving every day (sometimes two) to Luján de Cuyo and Maipú (AR$540) and the Uco valley (AR$600). Tours focus more on tasting than winemaking techniques.
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Baqueanos del Río
Various operators offer boat trips, but the best is Baqueanos del Río which offers excursions in wooden boats and knows a hell of a lot about the river and its ecosystem. Ring or email to book a trip. Boats leave from the eastern end of the costanera, by the tourist office.
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Sebastián Clerico
Sebastián Clerico offers recommended bike tours of the city and surrounds (around Arg$55, three hours) in several languages. Even better is the seven-hour trip (around Arg$110) which incorporates kayaking on the Río Paraná and around its islands.
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La Chacra
La Chacra offers horseback excursions lasting from a few hours to multiple days. Prices run about AR$90 for a half-day excursion and AR$450 for two days, including a full asado (barbeque) in the mountains.
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Coined
Córdoba is an excellent place to study Spanish; in many ways, being a student is what Córdoba is all about.
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La Trochita
Argentina's famous narrow-gauge steam train, averages less than 30km/h on its meandering weekly journey between Esquel and El Maitén - if it runs at speed. In its current incarnation, subsidized by the city of Esquel and the governments of Río Negro and Chubut, La Trochita - which Paul Theroux facetiously called The Old Patagonian Express - provides both a tourist attraction and a service for local citizens.
Like many other state projects, completion of the line seemed an interminable process. In 1906 the federal government authorized the southern branch of the Roca line, between Puerto San Antonio on the Atlantic coast and Lago Nahuel Huapi. In 1922 Ferrocarriles del E…
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Guided tours
Visitors may not use their own vehicles on park roads; only contracted guides with pickup trucks offer tours of sandy canyons where aboriginal petroglyphs and mortars adorn streambed sites. Nesting condors scatter from cliffside nests as vehicles invade their otherwise undisturbed habitat. On the usual two-hour tour from the park's headquarters, vehicles pass the dunes of El Playón, leading to the Puerta de Talampaya (Gate of Talampaya) entrance to the canyon.
Back on the road, the vehicles enter the red sandstone canyon, whose eastern wall reveals a conspicuous fault. The next major stops are the Chimenea del Eco, an extraordinary echo chamber where your voice seems to …
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Centro Paleontológico Lago Barreales
For true dino freaks, the best place to satiate the hunger for bones is the Centro Paleontológico Lago Barreales, 90km northwest of Neuquén. Here you can actually work – as in get your hands dirty digging – on-site with paleontologists in one of the world’s only fully functioning dinosaur excavation sites open to the public. You can visit the museum and take a guided tour of the site in about 1½ hours, but the real pleasure comes from the unique opportunity offered by sticking around. Prices (which help fund research) are AR$400 for one day and AR$1050 for two days and one night. It also offers scientific/educational tours, making a circuit of Neuquén province pal…
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Fishing
You know a place takes fishing seriously when the tourism board posts a trout map online. Hollywood stars, heads of state and former US presidents all flock to the desolate stretch of the island around Río Grande in search of the perfect day of angling. Usually they are in luck.
In 1933 pioneer John Goodall stocked the rivers around Río Grande with brown, rainbow and brook trout. Fish populated the rivers and, like the region's sheep stations, the sport-fishing industry took off. European brown trout ventured out to sea, returning to these rivers to spawn. Over the decades this back-and-forth migration has fostered one of the world's best sea-run trout-fishing areas, wit…
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Finca Colomé
Some of Argentina’s finest wines are produced at this ecological bodega, which is set (as they say hereabouts) ‘where the devil lost his poncho, ’ some 20km down a spectacular gravel road west from Molinos. The vineyards (including some ancient pre-phylloxera European vines) and hotel enjoy a stunning natural setting, surrounded by hills and mountains that seem to change color hourly. Forward thinking on environmental, social and cultural fronts is also in evidence: the complex is electrically self-sufficient, has funded substantial infrastructural improvements in the local community and now boasts a stunning museum designed by artist James Turrell, with a permanent…
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