Leaving home town in early spring: From Canada to Argentina
In and around Argentina
We will travel to Argentina for about 3 weeks in March 2006. The itinerary was planned by a Toronto travel agent, College Travel. We thought it was a great plan and will see how it goes.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Fumio
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Day 1: a). Japanese (Canadian) goes to Argentina
We, two seniors, travel to Argentina from Canada in March 2006. We have traveled to many places in Europe but never been to south of the equater an... Continue reading »
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Day 1: c). Another plane transfer at O'Hare airport in Chicago
We have to change our flight to another one in Chicago. Just wait and wait and wait.... It will be a overnight flight to Buenos Aires and arriva... Continue reading » -
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Day 1: b). Transferring to United air in Toronto for Chicago
We arrived in Toronto safely and change out flight to United Air from now on. This is a transferring place and did not stay in the city. Continue reading » -
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Day 2: Senor Tango and a B.A. Tax driver
After a short rest, acquiring the environ of Hotel Bobo, we were picked up by our driver for the Tango Show. The place was called Senor Tango... Continue reading »
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Day 2: Finallly arriving sunny (hot) Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a very big cosmopolitan city in the South America. One major thing we noticed was the width of main streets. Some of them are over... Continue reading »
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Day 3: Buenos Aires: 1/2 day city tour by bus
It was raining most of the time but since we made the arrangement before we left Canada, we could not chamge the bus schedule. It would be nic... Continue reading »
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Day 3: La Boca, Buenos Aires
La Boca is a unique area of Buenos Aires. Since the rain stopped by the time we came to La Boca, we were able to walk about the area under the over... Continue reading »
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Day 4: Buenos Aires at leisure
Today is the first day in Buenos Aires with no specific itinerary. We spent a relaxing morning at Hotel Bobo's breakfast table. The weather is perf... Continue reading »
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Day 5: Visit Fiesta Gaucha
Again, a driver picked us up at Hotel Bobo and drove down to the downtown meeting place, Hotel Panamericana.
Today, we visit an Argentin... Continue reading »
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Day 6: Go to Colonia, Uruguay
We received ferry tickets to go to Colonia a few days earlier from the Argentina travel agent that was arranged by the College Travel of Toronto.Continue reading »
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Day 7: Buenos Aires at leisure
This is our last day to explore Buenos Aires so we decided to go to a few museums. But when we got there by taxi, the main museum (MALBA) was not open... Continue reading » -
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Day 8: Moving to Iguassu Falls, Brazil
After a week in Buenos Aires, we were transferred to airport for the next desination, "Iguassu Falls, Brazil". Arrive safely under sunny sky of Foz... Continue reading »
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Day 9: Iguassu Falls, Brazilian side
It was cloudy in the morning. Our guide, Rodrigo suggested to go to the Bird Park Sanctuary first before heading to the Falls. The bird sa... Continue reading »
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Day 10: Iguassu Falls, Argentina side, then to Buenos AIres
This morning we were going back to the Argentina side and visit the falls opisit of the Brazilian side. It was sunny & very hot day. We ne... Continue reading »
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Day 11: Arrived in Cordoba
Finally we arrived COrdoba. We were supposed to arrive Cordoba last night but due to the airline strike we lost one night stay in Cordoba. We... Continue reading »
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Day 12: Estancias Jesuita
It was a nice sunny day and we visited three Jesuites Estancias in a private car.
There are seven estancia remaining but we limited our visit... Continue reading »
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Day 13: Free day in Cordoba
This is a Cordoba at leisure day. It was another sunny day. We walked around the downtown area, visited Museo Historico Prov. Marq. de Sobremonte, Cri... Continue reading » -
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Day 14: Last day in Cordoba at leisure.
It started with thunder storm with heavy rain in the morning. The rain did not stop until after lunch time. The we walked out of our hotel around 2... Continue reading »
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Day 15: Arriving Bariloche
Alejandra took us and see us off at the Cordoba airport. She gave us her hand-made souvenir, what a gift and a nice guide!!!
It is a coo... Continue reading »
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Day 16: Bariloche, Circuite Chico (Small circle excursion)
We were picked up by a tour bus after 9 AM at the hotel. This was a pre-arranged tour of the area by a local tour company through College Travel of... Continue reading »
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Day 17: Bariloche, Circuito Grande (Big circle excursion)
It started with sunny sky turned into overcast, then drizzled on and off all day. We started early today, shortly after 7 AM, joined another tour b... Continue reading »
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Day 18: Bariloche to Monte Tronador
Its a sunny day today and our guide is the same as yesterday. Maria came to pick us up at Villa Huinid with a driver. She told us that there is no oth... Continue reading » -
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Day 19: Explore Bariloche (Choclate) town site.
This is the last full day in Bariloche. It is sunny but very windy.
Bariloche is renowned for chocolate and there are too many chocolate sho... Continue reading »
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Day 20: Leaving Bariloche for Montevideo, Uruguay
We went back to Bariloche town site again this morning to see there for the last time. We walked around under the nice fall weather. Later in... Continue reading »
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Day 21: Montevideo 1/2 day city tour.
The day started with very comfortable weather and we decided to take a quick look around the old city centre, although we had a 1/2 day city g... Continue reading »
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Day 22: Visit Punta del Este
Since we explored most of the Montevideo we decided to take another day tour through our hotel. We were told by our pickup driver and hot... Continue reading »
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Day 23: Last day in Montevideo and our last day of travel.
This was the last day in Montevideo and also the last day of our travel. We will heading home tomorrow.
We decided to see the Teatro Solis, a... Continue reading »
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Day 24: Safely at home
Well, we have traveled Argentina for three weeks and safely returned our home. It was our first trip to the south of equator. The weather was... Continue reading »
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