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Jan14

Lliao Lliao Villa, Argentina

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Lliao Lliao Villa is sitted on the bay surrounded by a six hectare park where nature vegetation has been preserved. On the top of the mountains, this villa is nestled between eternally snowy crests, where you can see a dorable panoramic view over Tanquelen, Argentina.

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Jan14

725 Continental Hotel Buenos Aires, Argentina

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The 725 Continental Hotel is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina on a street that sprawling from the Obelisk to the Plaza de Mayo. The location of the hotel allows you to explore all the historical, cultural, commercial and social landmarks in the heart of this enormous city.

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Oct27

La Boca, Buenos Aires

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La Boca is one of the most ancient and popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic. The place is very colourful, instead of dirt, noise, obscure.

But if you walked through the neigborhood for sure you will bump into surrprisingly clear river with amazing romantic view. Across the river you see almost every day a crowded row of twenty, maybe thirty people, painting their landscape.

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Jun02

The tango in Argentina, the sentimentalist, trick and art

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tango

Argentina is mostly famous for its capital city, Buenos Aires, usually referred to as the Paris of South America, and for being the cradle of the sensuous Tango, one of the most admired dances in the world. Plaza de Mayo, a traditional square to protest and revolt, but also a place to get relaxed and get invited to Tango, classic dance in Argentina. It takes two to Tango, but this is no problem in Argentina. Locals will always find a partner. People here love to dress up and look good. And boy o boy, do the people here look phenomenal. The Tango will captivate you and help you with insight into the culture. Whether you already know how to Tango or have no idea what it is, there are excellent places to learn. It is a magical city. There are people in the streets dancing tango, people enjoy going out very late at night until the early hours of the AM, and there is always something to do. The people are very friendly, too.

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Apr01

The Planetarium Galileo Galilei

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Planatario

The City of Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan and modern urban centre, where every day millions of people, among them tourists, come and go either to work or to visit the city.
The planetarium is impossible to miss as it rises out of Palermo’s busy and popular park district like a spacecraft or a giant eggcup. Between the appropriate architecture and the giant hunk of space rock on display outside the front door, those on the lookout can’t miss it.

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Mar29

Mindblowing monument – Obelisco of Buenos Aires

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Obelisco
The Obelisk of Buenos Aires has little historical significance and no real purpose of function in the city, unlike its national symbol counterparts worldwide including US’s Statue of Liberty, Italy’s Vatican, or England’s Big Ben. This monolith is a meeting place for political demonstrations, musical performances and celebrations over victories of the national soccer team. The obelisk symbolized the sun god Ra and during the brief religious reformation of Akhenaten was said to be a petrified ray of the aten, the sun disk. It was also thought that the god existed within the structure.

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Dec10

Wine and Cigars tips in Buenos Aires

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Wine and Cigars tips in Buenos Aires
If you are taking a trip to Argentina you will find that there are plenty options of wine and cigars. You should plan on tasting a lot and maybe having the rest mailed back to your home so you don’t have to lug it around in the airport.

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Nov12

The most imposing natural attractions in Argentina, and why not in South America

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argentina-iguazu-falls-pan-2.jpgIguazu Falls are one of the most spectacular sights in the world. Depending on the season and water flows, Iguazu is made up of 150 to 270 subsidiary falls that stretch across a two mile area of Argentina and Brazil. The average drop from the top of the falls to the narrow canyon below is 240 feet (by contrast, Niagara Falls drops 170 feet on the Canadian side and only 110 feet on the American side).

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Oct25

Maybe the Most Amazing Waterfalls on the Planet – Iguazu Falls

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Maybe the Most Amazing Waterfalls on the Planet - Iguazu Falls Iguazu Falls are one of the most spectacular sights in the world. Taller than Niagara Falls, twice as wide with 275 cascades spread in a horsehoe shape over nearly two miles of the Iguazu River, Iguazú Falls are the result of a volcanic eruption which left yet another large crack in the earth. Iguazú Falls is undoubtedly the most visited place in Misiones and one of the most imposing natural attractions in Argentina, and why not in South America.

The waterfall system consists of about 270 falls along 2.7 kilometres (1.67 miles) of the Iguazu River. The average drop from the top of the falls to the narrow canyon below is 240 feet (by contrast, Niagara Falls drops 170 feet on the Canadian side and only 110 feet on the American side). Iguazú river is born in Paraná state in Brazil, and after crossing 1,200 km. on a plateau where it receives several affluents, it reaches a fault forming a crack in the interleaved layers of sandstone and basalt where the river runs.

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Sep24

Amazing views from Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina

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Amazing views from Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina The Perito Moreno Glacier is located in the Los Glaciares National Park in the south west of Santa Cruz province, Argentina. It is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.

If you are on excursion there probably first you will go through the Patagonia valley with its natural environment of species such as guanacos, ostriches, foxes, etc. Afterwards you will enjoy many interesting spots: Cerro Comision o De Los Elefantes, river Centinela, Cerro Frias (guanacos site), many Patagonian farmhouses and, across the Mitre river you will get into National Park Los Glaciares. Then, you will go 35 km along the coast of of Lake Argentino’s Rico Branch, among vegetation of incredible trees such as nires, lengas, notros and cherry trees and at Curva de Los Suspiros you will get the first panoramic view of Glacier Perito Moreno.

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