Travelogues Argentina

Los Cardones

January 5, 2024 Buenos Aires I had two goals here: The “La Recoleta” cemetery. A collection of mausoleums that is really worth seeing, the most famous of which is the grave of...

Today we continued to Villa Pehunia. By now we are very good at packing quickly. So we left early to pick up our laundry. We made a stop at a bakery to get some provisions....

When we opened our front door this morning, we were greeted by a reception committee. There were two dogs and two cats sitting there, looking at us joyfully. They were already...

Today we continued our journey to Villa La Angostura. But first, we wanted to have breakfast. So we went to our favorite gas station to drink a freshly brewed coffee from an...

This day was a travel day. We drove all day until we arrived in Chos Malal in the afternoon. We went straight to the tourist information office. Unfortunately, it was closed...

Plaza de Mayo with Casa Rosada, current seat of government (Photo 1-2) Cabildo, historic government building from colonial times (Photo 3-7) And other historical buildings...

From the Iguazu Falls we flew over Buenos Aires to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. The city was much larger than we expected, but it didn't offer many attractions...

When it came to something radically new, it was like the unknown. It made people uncertain. When we longed for something new, it was mostly as a repackaging of the familiar, a...

Trevelin is a village officially founded in 1918, not far from Esquel and already a Welsh settlement in 1880. They built the mills that gave the village its name. In the village...

We thought that we could drive to the penguins by car and then walk a bit. But we had to drive through sand, grass, mud, and puddles until it became too dangerous, especially...

Hello dear ones, This is a collection of current events. We both successfully got our Argentine driver's license, which wasn't particularly difficult, just a bit strange. First,...

Hello dear ones, Here you will find various pictures of our life. We have found a morning care for Lea, Carmen, a very nice girl who has studied pedagogy and how to work with...

Today we visited the San Telmo Market. San Telmo is supposedly the oldest neighborhood in Buenos Aires, and the market is one of the last old markets and one of the most...

Upon arriving in Buenos Aires, we were greeted by a disability service in the form of two very nice men, who guided us and an older man (also in a wheelchair like Lea) through...

Short trip to Argentina to see the Iguazu Falls.

Saturday, 07.03. At 8 o'clock we had an appointment in the city with representatives of the church, the city, and the Italian consulate. The police chief of Ciudad del Este was...

Sunday, 01.03. After starting in Mar del Plata, we had the first breakdown right away. The chain and sprocket on Egidio's Transalp are shot. A quick makeshift solution and the...

We started towards Rio Gallegos today at half past nine. Ushuaia is located in Argentina and so is Rio Gallegos. Due to the complicated border arrangements, we had to enter...

On Friday morning, 14.02., we set off from El Calafate to Rio Gallegos on the Atlantic coast. We had loaded my BMW into the van the night before. The route to Rio Gallegos was...

On Thursday morning, we were picked up by the Interpol colleagues (the PSC on the Interpol vests stands for Policia Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz is the provincial capital) at 8 am for...

After the Torres del Paine National Park, the road in Chile is interrupted by a huge national park, so there are two more ways to get north, by ferry through the Chilean fjords...

Tag 119 Now we are in the south of Argentina, in El Calafate. We were here a few days ago, just for one night. But then we went directly to El Chaltén, which is two hours north...

At this point, guest blogger Mama Viajera writes a few posts about our adventures together during the four weeks in Argentina and Uruguay in December. The pictures are taken...

So after Mendoza I definitely need a vacation from my sabbatical year... or maybe rather a therapy to quit... 😆 Why? Because Mendoza is THE wine region in Argentina. Mendoza...

After a rather bumpy landing, we quickly realize: it's cold here! But also pleasantly fresh air. The fishing town essentially focuses on a long main street where most of the...

A huge, architecturally strange but very contrasting metropolis: old-fashioned vs modern, colorful vs dreary, dangerous vs relaxed, very poor vs very rich. And the gap keeps...

After a long bus ride, we arrived in El Chalafate. We stayed in a small hostel on the outskirts of the city for a few days. From there, we took a bus for a day trip to the...

In the bays of the Valdes Peninsula, from May to December, Southern Right Whales can be seen. We wanted to see them. On the long journey from Puerto Iguazu to Puerto Madryn, we...

Of wine and bicycles and even more wine