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Today Buenos Aires is colonizing of foreign artists and transforming into a throbbing hothouse of cool. One of the trendiest spots for clubbing in Buenos Aires is Zizek. Zizek is a weekly club night started by an expatriate from San Antonio and the sound there is called ”experimental cumbia” which mixes South American folk rhythms to an electronic beat.

Expatriates have opened splendid clubs, trendy shops and hotels throughout the city. For example British music engineer Tom Rixton, who has worked with Depeche Mode and his argentinian wife run a stylish hotel called ”Home”. The hotel Home is located in the very modern distinct of Palermo, where is the high concentration of movie and television studios. As well as Home features outstanding martine lounge with sunken seats, a rooftop terrace and global tapas.

So when the sun goes back to the sky, visitors could hike across the three-lined streets of Palermo Soho, which offer art galleries, chic boutiques and sidewalk cafes. Just on this street, for sure visitors will bump into Qara, a high leather goods store on Calle Garruchaga owned by Amanda Knauer(the girl on the main picture) from Manhattan.

Buenos Aires’s buzzing art scene has caught the eye of international curators. Appetite, an irreverent, punk-inflected gallery in San Telmo, was started by Daniela Luna, shown here. Ms. Luna recently opened an offshoot in Brooklyn.

San Pedro is located in very historical area of Argentina. Its doors are open for every guests and offer the most outstanding conveniences of the region. The building ‘San Pedro’ is originally built by conquistadors in 18^th century to provide and exchange goods, as well as to be a restful spot for those who loved to travel from the heights of Peru, or returning to them.

The structure is made of natural materials such as clay, stone, water and fire. Its careful restoration has conserved the original architecture while including a range of textures furnishings and ornaments that breathe life into a stucture of great comfort.

The oldest church is situated just near by San Pedro between beautiful trees. The massive stucture hides a small grotto protecting San Pedriti, which is a sclupture from 16^th century.

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.

Down to the hills there’s a port which welcomes the comings and going of boats. Tunquelen meas ”restful place”. The villa was formed during the 1930s by the talanted designer Ernesto Estrada.

The bungalows are 40, very warmth and peaceful, all of them with astonishing, beautiful views over the woods and lakes, with room-service all day, movie channels, WiFi internet, direct phone, baby crib.

As well as there’re restaurants, bars, gardens, sauna, indoor pool, spa centre. The restaurants offer quality Patagonian and Mediterranean cuisine with regional flavours, combining exotic savours with tradition.

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.

La Boca has too much history. It’s located at the border of the Raichuelo (a small river), and it was a refuge for the immigrants form Italy and Spain, who arrived between the years 1880 and 1930. The neighborhood is a mix of wonderful colours. The houses were made with wood and metal sheet, and the walls were painted with the leftlovers of paintings.

All these beautiful colours are the main characteristic of this palce. Painters and photographs loved them, especially the artists. Many of the artists every Sunday work and sell their works of art around Caminito (little road). Caminito is the most precious icon of La Boca. It collect the tourist movement and offers ‘tango’ shows with music and dance. Caminito has particular character with its restorment of the houses. Most of them become open art galleries.

Everything in La Boca is a genuine example of the Buenos Aires culture.

Some of the photographs are estimate highly and made by Harry Kikstra.

Iguazu 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).
The falls can be seen up close (plan to get wet) by walking along the upper and lower “circuits” of walkways. Both are well worth traversing. The upper circuit is much flatter and an easier walk and offers wonderful panoramas and views looking over the falls. The lower circuit affords views looking up at the falls and also leads to a short ferry ride across to the Isla San Martin.
Across the Rio Iguazu, on the Brazilian side, is another hotel and more walkways offering what are said to be more panoramic views of the falls (I didn’t go to the Brazilian side). The Brazilian hotel also operates helicopter rides over the falls that, from the Argentine side, are noisy and obnoxious and, according to Argentine naturalists, are disrupting the breeding habits of the many birds in the area. I was able to get a good view of the falls from the air on the commercial flight back to Buenos Aires, courtesy of the pilot who circled around twice so that all the passengers would be able to see.
This river runs through a smooth geography until it reaches a series of faults, and suddenly an 80 m. canyon in the Devil’s Throat where the water produces a thundering sound and then drains into the Parana river.
A legend says that a big snake called “Boi” lived in the river. To calm its ferocity, aborigines sacrificed a woman every year as an offering. But once a brave guarani aborigin kidnapped the woman and saved her from the traditional rite escaping through the river. Boi burst in anger, bent its body and split the river forming the cataracts separating the man and the woman.
The falls that can be visited are: Salto Floriano, Salto Deodoro, Salto Benjamín Constant, Salto Unión, Salto Escondido, Salto Mitre, Salto Belgrano, Salto Rivadavia, Salto Tres Mosqueteros, Salto Dos Mosqueteros, Salto San Martín, Salto Adán y Eva, Salto Bozzetti, Salto Ramirez, Salto Chico, Salto Dos Hermanos and Salto Alvar Nuñez .
Leaving from Cataratas station, we go to the footbridge on the upper part of the river. We get to the balcony on the Devil’s Throat, the biggest fall with such a big flow of water that you will be overcome by the grandeur of the scenery.
The lovers of adventure travelling can acces to more intense circuits.
Apart from waterfalls, the jungle offers a series of alternatives in a dump but slightly fresher environment with a wide variety of animals and plants. Almost 500 species of wild fowl, 80 species of mammals and an immense variety of reptiles, fish, insects and butterflies live in this ecosystem.
Only some meters from the Research Center is Macuco Trail, a 3 km. walking path through the dense jungle with different degrees of difficulty. It is a 2 hour walk to Salto Arrechea.
A private operator offers a more daring alternative. Leaving in a 4×4 vehicle we drive 8 km. through the jungle to the coast of the inferior Iguazu river.
Some semi-rigid rafts with powerful engines will be waiting for us to go upstream and into the mist veil formed by the cascades.
Another option is to take a rowing boat in the upper Iguazú river to watch the animals and plants in this delta, and maybe see some water tortoises or yacares sunbathing on the coast.
Iguazú is a singular environment that inspired the writer Horacio Quiroga in his “Tales of the Jungle“.