Visiting Buenos Aires

Tunnels of Buenos Aires.

Every time that it decides to dig a well for the construction of new buildings, emerges traces from the past.

It is said that the ancient Jesuits had designed a system of tunnels to link the main points of the city, from the Cathedral, the Cabildo and the Fort till the shores of the Rio de la Plata, the focus is centered in the called “Manzana de las Luces”.

After that the Jesuits were withdrawn, the tunnels start to be used by the Creoles, in view of the invasion of the English Army. After the defeat to international troops, the tunnels were abandoned.

It is said that too much time were used by smugglers to hide merchandise. Official versions claim that after the twentieth century were rediscovered, where they found traces of the era of the Jesuits.

Below the “Manzana de las Luces”, is divided into two levels of 3 and 6 meters deep, where it can find foundations of old buildings and the entrance to the tunnels, that they can not visit but yes look behind some bars.

Environmental cleanup campaign in Buenos Aires.

With the intention that the citizens of Buenos Aires and those who decide to visit Buenos Aires, help to keep the city cleaner and more hygienic, the city government launched a campaign called “Clean Play”.

The main objective is that everyone become aware of environmental evil that runs in the city, and that we can improve our behavior towards this reality or make a cultural change.

Personally, anguish me to see people throwing paper or waste in the streets. Doesn’t matter them absolutely nothing, and I’m sure in their homes do not.

The best you can do if you want help with this great proposal, is enter in the official site to register; there you will find more information and can start to help!

Argentina North to South.

Part II

After all this northern tour, mark our course towards the south or to the “Patagonia“, stick to the mountain, we will arrive to the city of San Carlos de Bariloche. Between this city and Salta we have more than 2400 kilometers where there are several cities and provinces to visit with very nice places like in San Juan the “Valley of the Moon”, “Las Leñas” in Mendoza, and so on. But here I am trying to mark the places that we believe it can not be miss.

In Bariloche, we have to visit several hills, including the “Cathedral”, the “Otto”, the “Tronador” volcano and appreciate the lakes as the “Nahuel Huapi.” We can also go to Villa la Angostura or until “El Bolson”, two towns located at approx. 100 km with an incredibly beautiful mountain range surrounded by mountains, forests and lakes. You can not leave without having tried the handmade chocolates.

Then head towards one of our last largest city to visity in Argentina. Calafate located in the province of Santa Cruz approximately 2000 kilometers south of Bariloche and from here you can visit the famous “Perito Moreno” glacier. They say you can not you go to Calafate without having tested the “Patagonian lamb” and the sweet fruit mermelade.

To conclude our Argentinean tour we will go the city of Ushuaia, the most southern of the world, is also called “the end of the world” or “the beginning of everything” a beautiful city that combines mountains, sea, forest and glacier. Here you can try the spider crab, see the old wooden houses, navigate the Beagle Canal, or visit the old Presidio.

In this site www.argentinaturistica.com you can find more about the history and background of each city or tourist area. For those who have time to make a trip or who are thinking of doing so, I recommend doing it through ground transportation in order to better appreciate the scenery and also because certainly it is less expensive.

Argentina from North to South.

Part I

Surely, many have thought they know Argentina, but they do not decided witch places of our country are going to visits. I have been luckly enought to know several points of the country and I think I can recommend 6 places or tourist areas that can not be missing.

Lets take as a starting point; Buenos Aires, where key locations are: “Caminito” famoust street of the tango in the neighborhood of La Boca, Recoleta Cemetery, the Forests of Palermo, the “Manzanas de las Luces” in San Telmo, Plaza de Mayo, and so on. Do not miss a lunch in Puerto Madero, a walk down the Florida street or a tango show. Take advantage of the wide variety of accommodations in Buenos Aires, for every style hotels, apartments, apart-hotels, bed and breakfast, and so on.

Then we go towards the northeast of Argentina, more accurate to the city of Iguazu in Misiones province where you can visit the Iguassu Falls and take hiking tours in contact with the missionary jungle. Yu can found on this website www.iguazujunglexplorer.com other jungle tours.

After the visit to Misiones we continue our way to the northwestern of Argentina. In Jujuy, “La Puna”, which includes a vast salt fields, with a surface similar to the lunar full of harmony and unforgettable sensations; we also have small towns like Purmamarca where you found the famous hill of the seven colors, and the Quebrada de Humahuaca a place in heaven declared “world heritage”.

In Salta you can make the journey on the “Tren de la Nuves” which is one of the highest in the world and you can appreciate the scenery beyond belief, we can also enjoy the small settlement of Cafayate in the mountainous surroundings, and to completed it can not fail the city of Salta, on the cliff “Balderrama” where you can appreciate native food, music and folk dancing.

Tripit

 

TripIt is a web service for travelers. Is a tool that allows us to have a complete organization for our trip.
Tripit Is really easy to use. The user sent by email their travel plans : flights, accomodations, tours, etc. TripIt and it generates a general schedule which includes a map from the city destination, weather information, street, restaurants recommended.
The web have an attractive look and feel, and an easy turorial with some additional resources like the tripit movil that allows to recibe the information. They also have a corporative blog with aditional update information.
We do not accept each and every vendor of flights, hotels, etc., that exist in the market. But they will include most of them soon.

THE TANGO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

The tango World championship develops in Buenos Aires city from 24 to 1 of September. More than 400 couples will participate in the competition that includes interesting events, activities, Tango concerts and Dance classes.

The main headquarter of the championship is going to be at the “Harrods store”, and in the 1 of September will be the finals with the participation of the international Mariano Mores orchestra with Raul Lavierán in voice.

This event confirms that Buenos Aires was the word and most important tango center, supported by wide range of hotels, restaurants and furnished apartments.

In the official championship site I found a good resource with access at the compete information, very simple and fast. We can enter to every event by days and the access to the full schedule. We can download all the press releases arrange by date.

It is getting near the date of one of the events that more attention and interest generates in the sport area of the Republic Argentina. It is important, not only to local level but anywhere in the world where football is played, represents a real party and an experience worth being lived. Boca Juniors and River Plate are two of the most popular clubs of Buenos Aires, the Argentinean football match that generates major expectations, and where there measures up once again the power, skills, and creativity of the game of every team. But it does not end there. Every match is a real spectacle of colors, a party of popular songs, garlands, horns, and all that highlight the best of each club.

Every match of Boca and River, it summons dozens of thousands of sympathizers, each one with their flags, shirts and badges, which they put in action with every goal, with every victorious game, with every competitive situation. They compose the unique and perfect show, and where the passion is the common denominator.

This passion that distinguishes so much all Argentineans, here you can see it multiplied a hundred times. Next 4th of May, we will be able to confirm this again. It is known that the football in Argentina is unique for the special characteristics, but the football of Boca-River, is an obsession that in addition attracts thousands of tourists from all parts of the world, to be there seated and to be a part at least for 90 minutes of this madness, has turned into another tourist attraction that Buenos Aires has to give.

You can’t miss the BOCA vs RIVER match, they don’t play very often. Consult here, everything about how to be present match, fromTRANSFERS FOR BOCA RIVER to the TICKETS FOR THE STADIUM and everything solved in order you can enjoy the Boca River match as we do.

Clausura Tournament 2008: follow the Boca Juniors Athletic Club, River Plate and other teams along the Argentine soccer championship

BOCA JUNIORS vs RIVER PLATE
INDEPENDIENTE vs RIVER PLATE
BOCA JUNIORS. vs RACING CLUB
Libertadores Cup: Accompany the Agentine teams along the Libertadores Cup.
Experience this marvelous show.
BOOK YOUR SEATS.

We can’t deny that Buenos Aires is well known in the whole world for three determinate aspects in our culture Tango, Maradona and excellent meat.

In the begging of the 90s, the international success of the company Tango Argentino opened our doors to the whole world. A new generation began to dance Tango, a lot of bands were formed and many young people began practicing this sensual dance that attracts peoples of all ages and society levels, “Tango” and “Milonga” schools were opened and the “2×4” became more famous.

Tango became well know as an international dance. After the 2001 crisis and the following years the 3 to 1 dollar exchange and more advantages with the EUROS, is what make us received thousands of tourists from all over the world that wants to live this mystic dance and this is something possible only in Buenos Aires, the Tango capital.

The ones that loves this mystic dance has the chance to a sightseeing along a typical “Conventillo” in La Boca, go along “Caminito” full of those new realistic sceneries and a beautiful modern art expositions in the street, where painters, artists, sculptors, dancers and singers expose their art.

Learn how to dance tango in groups or individual classes; enjoy an artistic show, with a band, singers and first level dancers; and even have a tango class at the same place, enjoy a shopping tour where you can get special shoes, dressing, crafts, and silver stuff in San Telmo, where you may also find the international silversmith Juan Carlos Pallarols.

Aand later

..enjoy with the five senses the “Asado Criollo” ritual in a rural environment, with firewood meat and the best Argentinean wines!!!!!

Here you will find some interesting addresses:

Silversmith Juan Carlos Payarlos. Unique silver artwork 1039 Defensa Phone Number: 4300 6555 - 4361 7360 - 4362 0641

La Cueva de la Música, Were you will find all the Tango music. 744 Lavalle Phone number: 4328-0072

CALDEN Argentinian Meats, Cordero del Sur, Trucha del Sur 4701 Honduras Phone number: 4833-2221

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Buenos Aires book shops have a style and special caracteristics.Big and luxurious located on the most important avenues; o specialized on sales and used books, hidden on the neighbourhoods. Its main attraction for the tourist is on the history they represent and mostly on the cultural and relaxing space they offer. Other interesting characteristic is that many porteñas book shops are located on historical and valuable buildings. Go through the book shoops, search for books on shelves, talk to the owners it s a perfect way to know and understand the city and it s habits. In 1750 the first book sellers had established in Buenos Aires.

There were stores that, besides other stuff, such as food or medicine, sold books. One of them was located at the corner of Alsina y Bolivar. On that same corner is now today Libreria de Avila, the only store in the city that maintains it location and stuff since the colonial times. During the 20^Th century many important bookshops and publishing houses were open, such us “Librería de la Ciudad”, frecuently visit by Jorge Luis Borges, or “El Ateneo-Grand Splendid”, a magnificent and luxurious bookshop located in Santa Fe avenue, which is built in an antique cinema building and that was recently declared the second most important bookshop in the world according to an article in the british newspaper The Guardian. Many bookshops offer spaces for reading with confortable sofas and tables to have a coffee. Spaces where cultural events are performed. The readers can sit and enjoy, or read the book they had chosen from the shelves. Bookshops Tours: The areas where you can find most bookshops in Buenos Aires is Corrientes Avenue, between Callao and 9 de Julio (San Nicolas neighbourhood). There are chains bookshops (Ghandi – Galena, Hernandez, Cúspide), big stores (Losada, Longseller, Lorraine), and many many others. Most of them are dedicate to sales and clearance sale.

In Corrientes, Santa Fe and Juramento avenues and also in shopping centres, there hay big bookshops with the last realisements, and many interesting turistical information and stuff: such us books with photographs, and luxurious editions about tango. In Avenida de Mayo, from 500 until 1200, there are some bookshops that sell strange editions, first editions, old books or books that no longer exists, handwritten, etc.In the area that goes from Suipacha and Corrientes, on directions to San Martin Park, there are fancy bookshops attended by well known booksellers, such us Libreria Casares.

For the ones that prefer doing research on sales tables – mainly in Parque Centenario, Parque Rivadavia or Plaza Italia, are an excellent option to get great copies – used or brand new ones- to cheap prices, both books and magazines