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10 Unusual Things to Do in Buenos Aires
Blog: Two Backpackers - 10 February 2012
In this travel guest post for 2Backpackers.com, Erin and Simon of Never Ending Voyage, share their list of unusual things to do in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina Travel Buenos Aires is one of the highlights when travelling South America and most visitors fall for this elegant city with its European vibe and South American energy. [...]
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Learning to Love Buenos Aires
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 30 January 2012
Everyone has a vision of BA before they arrive. I’d seen images of the ‘Paris of the South’ and had imagined myself tango dancing down the brightly coloured streets with a handsome Argentinean. (A girl can dream). The reality is that those pretty cobbled streets with houses painted in primary colours are only in El [...]
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The Best of South America Part 1: Travellers Share Their Tips
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 24 January 2012
This week we launched our free ebook South America Highlights where we share 28 of our favourite places from our year on the continent. We thought it’d be interesting to find out how our highlights compared to other travellers, so we asked a number of travel bloggers to share their best experiences and destinations in [...]
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The San Telmo Antiques Fair
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 23 January 2012
Known for its bohemian charm and historic appeal, the quaint and funky Buenos Aires barrio of San Telmo is full of energy every day. However, on Sundays, it truly comes to life. Every Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm, the Plaza Dorrego is home to the San Telmo Antiques Fair. To call this an [...]
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Live Music in Buenos Aires: La Bomba de Tiempo
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 18 January 2012
It’s 8 pm on a Monday night in Buenos Aires: the summer heat has finally receded and night is slowly beginning to fall. Enjoy that gentle breeze while it lasts, because the seventeen percussionists that make up La Bomba de Tiempo [sp] (Time Bomb) are just kicking off their two hour set and the crowd is about [...]
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The backpack diaries – our top ten South American experiences
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 21 December 2011
So this post is a little late – over a year late to be precise – but that’s okay because we still remember every miniscule detail of the trip as if it was yesterday. We’re determined to get back on the blogging horse and we have a few great European posts up our sleeves for [...]
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Any given Protest.
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 1 December 2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina. After coming back from a day of wandering the streets of Buenos Aires and enjoying unas cervazas in the hostel bar. We heard a large, almost rhymthic, pounding of drums and chanting. A brief stop outside and … Continue reading →
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The Wealthy Dead
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 1 December 2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina. 22nd November, 2011. Heading out on a collectivo to Recoleta was a mission. Mainly cause my map told me it was going to go a certain way, but went one street earlier than what it was supposed … Continue reading →
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A bus ride to Bariloche
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 28 November 2011
November 28th, 2011. A bus ride that lasts 20 hours is my idea of hell. But there isn’t much of an option really. There isn’t a lot between Buenos Aires…
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Any Given Sunday.
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 27 November 2011
Buenos Aires – Sunday 27th November, 2011. Another day to organise my stuff. I’m lazy like that on holidays. One of the things you should be aware of in Argentina…
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The Greenery of Palermo
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 26 November 2011
Buenos Aires – Saturday 26th November, 2011. A bit of an early start I suppose. Well for myself anyway. And straight onto the Subte to get to Plaza Italia. Once…
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Avenida de Mayo
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 26 November 2011
Buenos Aires – November 22nd, 2011. It’s another struggle to get up. I think its sometime around 11 or so I get up. Not a bad effort considering I got back when the sun was shining. I run into a … Continue reading →
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Chilling in Buenos Aires
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 8 June 2011
“Chilling in BA” (a page from my Travel Journal) Have I said this before? Probably but I’ll say it again….I love Buenos Aires! I arrived here from Salta and chose a cosy B&B in the San Telmo neighbourhood. San Telmo is the bohemian quarter of BA, full of antique and design shops, cafés, restaurants and [...]Chilling in Buenos Aires is a post from: Velvet Escape's blog
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Spirit, Beautiful City, Buenos Aires
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 26 April 2011
I felt privileged to be in Buenos Aires. I finally found myself with the freedom to embark on a trip I had coveted for such a long time and I was in Argentina.
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The Top 10 Wildest Electro-House Music Festivals
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 29 March 2011
Looking for an insanely wild party? Looking for a few? Want some stories you’ll brag about to your friends for years to come? Don’t miss out on the Top 10 Wildest Electro-House Music Festivals on Earth. 10. Monegros, Spain (July 2011) Around 40,000 people inundate this place from all over the world to party hard to [...]
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65,000kms of ebb and flow?
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 19 January 2011
On my way into Buenos Aires in early December I eagerly watched the odometer as it rolled over the magical 50,000 kilometers since leaving Calgary a year and a half ago. Tierra Del Fugeo is only a measly 3,000km from BA, making my wild guess amazingly close, all things considered. In light of passing the [...]
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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Tango in Buenos Aires
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 19 January 2011
Every Sunday, the locals come out to dance on the Plaza Dorrego in San Telmo, Buenos Aires. Read the accompanying post: “Sundays in San Telmo“. See other Velvet Moments: Serengeti, Tanzania Bora Bora, French Polynesia Sacred Water Temple, Bali, Indonesia Masaai Mara, Kenya The Great Ocean Road, Australia Angkor Wat, Cambodia
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How to See Argentina in 30 Days
Blog: GoBackpacking - 17 January 2011
Argentina is a country that is blessed with everything a country could ask for.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Family Christmas
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 11 January 2011
I’ve wanted to spend quality time with my family for so long now, and for the last couple of months I’ve been been getting “happiness attacks” every time I thought about their close at hand arrival. Having the support and encouragement of my family has always been important to me, and something I think about [...]
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Buenos Aires!
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 14 December 2010
My family and I organized many months ago to meet in Buenos Aires for Christmas, and it’s been my long-term destination ever since. The day finally arrives to head into the big city and a 650km, 10 hour day sees me drive right into the middle of downtown without any problems. Good maps make all [...]
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Falling in love with Buenos Aires
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 30 November 2010
“Falling in love with Buenos Aires” A page from my Travel Journal Gosh I love this city! Buenos Aires (BA) is one of those unique, terribly fascinating cities that one stumbles upon, falls in love with and keeps coming back to. BA has a buzz that’s one-of-a-kind: I’m not sure how I would describe it; [...]
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A Walk in Buenos Aires, Part 2: San Telmo
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 15 November 2010
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A Walk in Buenos Aires, Part 1: La Boca
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 7 November 2010
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Buenos Aires Take 2…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 20 October 2010
Having not accomplished everything we wanted to in Buenos Aires, we headed back from Uruguay to spend one more night there. One of the main things we wanted to visit and is apparently pretty much a ‘must see’ in BA is the Cemeterio de la Recoleta. The problem with arriving with one day to visit [...]
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Raising the steaks. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 18 October 2010
It’s 2pm on a Sunday afternoon and Buenos Aires is waking up to room-spins and a killer hangover. The kind of hangover that most people only ever dream about. The kind of hangover you get from staying out until 10am in the morning and watching the sunrise from inside the world-famous nightclub Pacha. Upstairs the [...]
