Argentina Stories


Buenos Aires

Official Name: Argentine Republic Capital: Buenos Aires Official Language: Spanish Independence: from Spain, July 9, 1816 Population: 41,281,631 Religion: Roman Catholic, 92% Life expectancy at birth: total population: 75.05 years male: 71.67 years female: 78.61 years (2000 est.) Argentines come from Italian descent (97%). Literacy, 96% Bord...


Visiting Uruguay and Buenos Aires Argentina

We flew from Manta to Quito the end of October. We had to spend the night in Quito because of the early morning flight the next day. The next day we flew to Buenos Aires, Argentina via Lima Peru on TACA airlines. It was a good flight with an hour or so layover in Lima. Before we arrived in Buenos Aires, the owner of the Mira Vida Soho advised us as ...


Bolivia

An here is: the Bolivia report After crossing the border from Peru to Bolivia and having a "deep" conversation with a guy struggeling with the aftermathes of carnaval (equals: he was so hammered) I arrived in Copacabana/BOL just in the nick of time to climb the hill with crosses (forgot the name) and watch the sun go down. Funnily I met Eamonn (the I...


Catch a Tigre by the tail

1/20/2011 The first thing that I noticed about BA is it’s never ending restaurants and shops. Even with such a large population it is hard to believe that they can be so busy and make money. Full range of quality. Argentineans are the largest beef consumers in the world and it shows in their restuarants. But still lots of choices for a non meat eate...