Articles tagged with "Argentina"
Argentina asks three specific things of a traveler and none of them is about age. It asks you to cross long distances, it asks you to arrive at altitude in the northwest, and it asks you to eat late. This guide is about planning around those three rather than around a birthday.
Accessibility in Argentina is uneven rather than absent, and the unevenness follows the age of the infrastructure. This guide describes conditions as they are, names the places that work well, and leaves the judgments about what suits you where they belong.
Argentina is routinely described, including by Argentines, as the country in the region without an African past. The state that tells that story has also raised a national monument to an Afro-Argentine woman of the independence wars. This page sets out what is documented, and is explicit about what…
Argentina's two most distinctive celebrations happen a long way apart and mean different things. The Mendoza harvest is a civic festival built around the wine industry; Carnival in the northwest is an Andean tradition with its own ritual shape. Both are worth planning around and both fill the…
Most of what a visitor needs in Argentina is social rather than formal. The mate gourd has a genuine etiquette attached to it, greetings are physically closer than most North Americans expect, and punctuality means different things depending on what you have been invited to.
Argentine food is less about a long list of dishes than about a small number of things done with great care, at hours that will surprise you. This guide covers what to order, what the regional differences actually are, and how to eat on Argentine time without missing dinner.
Argentina has no restricted region of the sort some of its neighbors carry. What it has instead is ordinary urban theft in a few named places, one specific crime worth understanding before you carry a bank card, and a national habit of blocking roads that will cost you a connection rather than your…
Argentina is large enough that how you move between places decides what you can see. Internal flights buy time at a price, the long distance buses are genuinely comfortable, and in Buenos Aires a single travel card covers almost everything.
Packing for Argentina is really packing for two or three countries at once. The list below is organized by the regions that make demands, and it starts with the things that are genuinely hard to replace once you have arrived.
Argentina is the destination where printed money advice ages fastest. This guide explains the mechanics, which are stable, and publishes no exchange rate, which is not. What it asks you to do instead is check on the day.