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1 week intensive course; Registration fee; Visits to Laguna Guatrache and Termas. nights in a hotel (***) in La Pampa province; Accommodation in La Pampa (including breakfast); Transfer from La Pampa to Buenos Aires in a comfortable bus ...click here

Confirmed: Buenos Aires for DVD!

Madonna's tour director Chris Lamb confirmed during an interview with Argentinian newspaper La Nacion that the four Sticky & Sweet shows at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires will be shot professionally for the upcoming DVD release of ...click here

Buenos Aires: Mundo Polo

Spring in Buenos Aires means is polo season (October to December). You don't have to break the budget to watch a game, though tickets can be sometimes hard to get. Polo is exciting to watch. Just think of hockey on horseback, ...click here

BA Birthday!

Turning 21 is rather anti-climactic in Buenos Aires, since I've been able to purchase and drink alcohol for the past few months. Nevertheless, I will always remember Quilmes Stout as my first "legal" drink. 21st-birthday-0881 ...click here

Industry Insiders: Unik Ernest, Nightlife Philanthropist

I stay at the Faena Hotel in Buenos Aires. I love London. I enjoy the south of France, from Cannes all the way to St. Tropez. Sometimes I'll drive from ...click here

Wahoo!! - Buenos Aires

We didn't want to live in a hotel room for two months, so we asked my uncle - 'Big Tommy' – to help us find a nice place to live. Well, he knocked this one out of the park. We are in Puerto Madero, the waterfront district of Buenos ...click here

It doesn’t take two for a fine Argentine meal

The current trend in Buenos Aires is baked empanadas; we didn't have a single one there that was deep-fried. The typical filling is chopped meat, olives, ...click here

Lisa and I explore Buenos Aires

Lisa is here It is so great to have family down here... I have definitely been feeling slightly homesick Lisa arrived last Sunday and it has been great. We had lunch with Georgette on day 1. She even made some of her famous pancakes for ...click here

Rain Rain Go Away....Wet Buenos Aires

Rain Rain Go Away....Wet Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, for those of you who've not been here, has a very unique charm. Not Latin. Not European really. Something different. Hard to put your finger on. I want to capture that in the film. I will head out to do a tour through ...click here

Sticky and Sweet Buenos Aires

Yes it´s Buenos Aires "La reina del Plata" This Queen is so temperamental like the Queen of Pop: Madonna and she´s coming... Her entourage of 3 kids and 220 people, her 350 tons of luggage will help her to rock "El monumental" (River ...click here

Argentina open polo championship in Buenos Aires Posted By .

Argentina open polo championship in Buenos Aires Posted By : Michele De Capitani Polo has got very ancient origins, and it was well-known in Persia in the 6th century bc Nowadays this sport is widespread above all in certain countries, ...click here

Buenos Aires, the cosmopolitan face of Argentina

When we talk about Buenos Aires, our first thought is tango, leather articles, commerce, sea, beautiful architecture and a Latin-American city that seems to be ahead of its sisters in many aspects. Buenos Aires offers many attractions ...click here

All Things Sing in Buenos Aires

The Plaza we live on, usually swamped with artists, people drinking at the café's, tango dancers, tourists, wondering eyes never to be forgotten here in Buenos Aires, with the exception of a group of guys sitting off the numerous drinks ...click here

Family visit in Buenos Aires

We went to all the parks of Palermo and Recoleta, went to see "la boca", saw a tango show, ate Argentinian beef almost everyday combined with lot of "helado" (ice cream). See here the pics of Buenos Aires. ...click here

"It takes two to tango" Buenos Aires

After a morning spent trying to take it all in, we were off to the airport for our last internal flight (fears of excess luggage) and thence to Argentina and its elegant capital Buenos Aires. Our last hotel, the Emperador, ...click here

World’s most Beautiful Girls Live in Stockholm, Sweden

World's most Beautiful Girls Live in Stockholm, Sweden
Argentina and Buenos Aires takes the second place on the list. Many young Argentinean women look like models because Buenos Aires is inhabited by descendants of Italian emigrants. South American women were distinctive for their ...click here

sudamerica 2008/09: buenos aires two weeks in

well, did a few things since the last post, went to colonia in uruguay, tigre at the northern outskirts of buenos aires, and checked a few bars and restaurants as recommended by the lonely planet, as well as continuing the spanish ...click here

Lujan

Once a year people walk the 68kn from Buenos Aires to Lujan to show respect to her pilgrimage and to pray for the sick. Last week: So I went during the week because I heard that the weekends were too crazy with tourists and hawkers. ...click here

A Thanksgiving Hello

I recorded a short video below to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving from down here in hot, humid, sweaty, air conditionless (at least in my apartment) Buenos Aires. A quick warning/disclaimer/embarrasing note: for some reason, ..click here

BA, here I am!!! - Buenos Aires, Capital Federal District, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Capital Federal District, Argentina I've just spent 3 days in BA, and I'm loving it! Everything about this city is amazing: the atmosphere is so cool, the people are really nice, the shopping is great, the food is amazing, ...click here

A Barbie outfit like no other: Buenos Aires store offers total ...

The highly successful Argentina outlet may be replicated worldwide. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The glittering storefront in this capital's trendy Palermo ...click here

South America — the ultimate destination

Described as the 'Paris of South America', Buenos Aires will captivate you with the warmth of its people, its wide boulevards, and its architecture. ...click here

Mine Hotel Boutique : Buenos Aires, Argentina

At the moment the Palermo Soho neighborhood is the epicenter of everything creative that's happening in Buenos Aires — and as such it's where most of the new developments in the hotel scene are happening as well. ...click here

Simple and Effective Ways to Save Money in Buenos Aires

If you are visiting Buenos Aires for a short period of time, try staying in a temporary furnished apartment, instead of a hotel. If you stay for a week, you will find that for half the price that you would have paid for a hotel, ...Click here

Top Ten Things to do in Buenos Aires

Maybe it's because I'ma writer at heart… this bookstore is a must-do for me every time I get a chance to be in Buenos Aires. You can find it at Av Santa Fe, in a restored theatre. 3. Cafe Tortoni. Okay… so it's on the touristy side, ...click here

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires: Stayed in the trendy Palermo Soho neighborhood in a tiny boutique hotel and did tons of sight-seeing (Recoleta Cemetery with all of the Evita memorabilia, Puerto Madero and San Telmo antique markets, shopping in Palermo). ...click here

Day Two in Buenos Aires

Another hot day here in Ramos Mejía, one of the western suburbs of Buenos Aires. I'm sitting directly beneath the ceiling fan where it's bearable. The humidity combined with the heat just sorta wilts us. BUT the time with our co-workers ...click here

Polo

There are two kinds of horse traditions here: the gaucho and his trusty horse, herding cattle through the Pampas, and the civilized, British horse sports of horse-racing and polo. Watching and learning to play polo has been high on my ...click here

Buenos Aires

We arrived in Buenos Aires without a confirmed reservation, so our first task was to secure a place to stay. We got a cab to St Nicholas Hostel, who would "probably" have an en-suite twin for us based on a phone call the previous day. ...click here

Mini Travel Dish: La Salamandra (Buenos Aires)

This is part of a series of reports recapping my recent trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Check back every Monday and Tuesday when I'll be giving you a taste of my food adventures in this South American metropolitan city. ...click here

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Day 4

I went to the zoo, the Evita musuem, the Japanese Garden, and then out to dinner at a really nice steak restaurant. The restaurant was awesome and well recommended by my guidebook and a friend who lived in BA for a while. ...click here

Buenos Aires actually COULD be the Paris here. - Buenos Aires ...

So this past weekend we went to Buenos Aires. We left at 7:00 AM on Friday morning (the 7th of November) and took a bus to Buenos Aires. We arrived about 11:00 AM, more or less, and got to our hotel, the Hotel Carlton, in the city. ...click here

Recoleta Fair

It's funny, I find Buenos Aires very easy to navigate, but people are always asking for directions. I think it must be like when I go to New York and have no idea where I am. Only a few times I have told people I didn't know, ...click here

Tango, Our Dance

Their intimate stories about their personal experiences reveal the intensity that feed their individual tango styles. Numerous tango aficionados, including actors Robert Duvall and Juan Carlos Copes (star of Broadway's TANGO ARGENTINO), ...click here

i want to be a part of BA, buenos aires, big apple

we got in to buenos aires early, like 6:30 am early. i was dying. it was also SUPREMELY cold. we had to wait over a half hour because of the lack of taxis. we stood in the cold suffering, but my suffering was slightly less because i got ...click here

Last day in BA

Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov 21, 2008. Dripped off some stuff for posting and some laundr. THen went for a walk around soem of the twon. A gide in the  Square of ENligenment would…..click here

Photographer brings eye for detail to Hays

An internationally acclaimed street photographer, he recently spent about a month in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And this week, Smith traveled to Hays, ...click here

The Ultimate Honeymoon Destinations

Buenos Aires will certainly heat things up on your honeymoon. The capital is also easily on our top ten list for hip world cities. ...click here

Don't Cry for Me Argentina

Back in Buenos Aires I took in some more tango lessons and a dinner show with some friends. Lots of fun and amazing dancers. Truth be told I wouldn't know bad tango from good tango but I do know I had a great time. ...click here

Polo In Buenos Aires

After arriving in Buenos Aires yesterday afternoon, we went out to Club Pilará to watch some polo pickup matches, as the world's top players prepared for the big matches in Palermo this Sunday. ...click kere

City of tango and tears

Travel writers say it's the new Prague. A report in the Buenos Aires Herald says the capital ranks 138 among 143 cities in a cost-of-living survey (topped, ...click here

Fly to the Cluster and Save Big Time

You know the highlights: Argentina includes the very European and stylish city of Buenos Aires and the remote landscapes of Patagonia. Peru was the land of the Incas. The Mayans left their footprints in Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. ...clich here

Floralis Genérica. Buenos Aires

This Most Excellent sculpture, Floralis Genérica, is located at the United Nations Plaza in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Designed by US trained architect, Eduardo Catalano, the sculpture is a structure of stainless steel frame ...click here

Perfect Weather for Polo

A long block up Avenida Bullrich, past an army installation from the early 20th century, then the mosque (the largest in South America), and left on Avenida Libertador to the polo fields, across from the race track. Photos here. ...click here

Photos from Museum Night

After that, I walked to Plaza de Mayo and went into the Cabildo, which besides being one of the most famous colonial churches in Buenos Aires, is also a museum. From there, I hopped on a colectivo and headed to Recoleta and the Belle ...click here

Cooking in Buenos Aires

Eating in restaurants is not so cheap in Buenos Aires anymore. Because of this, I am trying to cook as much as possible. Groceries at supermarkets are still very affordable - you can easily find a really nice steak for less than 10 ...click here

Abierto Argentino de Polo

This afternoon Leonie, Lauren, and I went to the Campo Argentino de Polo in Palermo to watch two polo matches. The Abierto Argentino de Polo (Argentine World Polo Open) just started here in Buenos Aires! First we watched Ellerstina play ...click here

Ten Reasons to Love Buenos Aires Part 1

We rented a one-bedroom apartment in Palermo Hollywood, the happening 'hood, with a pool and a balcony for $650 a week through Buenos Aires Habitat, ..click here

Travel Dish: L’Orangerie at the Alvear Palace Hotel (Buenos Aires)

The Alvear is considered one of the most luxurious and exclusive hotels in Buenos Aires, and it is home to one of the best known French restaurant in South America (La Bourgogne). But because I'm such a big fan of the whole ritual of ...click here

Beautiful, Beautiful Buenos Aires

I just spent three days in one of my favorite cities – Buenos Aires. I was speaking to 2000 executives about the future of brands in this tough economic environment, as well as catching up with the MBAs at the Universidad de Palermo. ...click here