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Las Sierras de Córdoba – Part 2: Little Germany, pretty views and some wine!

Las Sierras de Córdoba – Part 2: Little Germany, pretty views and some wine!

Chairlift up the Sugar Loaf Mountain near Cosquin While in Córdoba – Argentina’s second city, we hired a car to explore the surrounding countryside, which is dotted with interesting villages as well as beautiful landscapes. We spent most of our first day in Alta Gracia, exploring the Jesuit Estancia and at the Che Guevara museum. To read more about our time in Alta Gracia see this post. Leaving Alta Gracia, we headed to Villa General Belgrano, stopping on the way to take…

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Photographing Palermo

Photographing Palermo

On one of our afternoons in Buenos Aires we went on a Foto Ruta Iphoneography workshop and tour to help us to better use our iPhones for taking street photos.  The workshop and tour took us around the Palermo area of Buenos Aires – a leafy middle class area filled with restaurants, bars, parks, museums and night clubs.  Leafy … We’d not explored the area much during the day and so this was a good opportunity for us to get…

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Mendoza – the city we just kept going back to!

Mendoza – the city we just kept going back to!

Parque General, San Martin, Mendoza We went to Mendoza three times while in Argentina!  At the border: still smiling as we haven’t realised how long we’ll be here Crossing the Andes from Chile after our stay in Valparaiso, we arrived into the wine-making capital of Argentina on the 5th June (2014) for our first stay with our Argentinian host, Federico, who we found through Air BnB. Bye Chile, hope to see you again soon Air BnB is an online accommodation…

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