our lovely treelined route

BA, Uruguay, Mendoza, Cacheuta

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July 25th 2007
Next was a return bus to Buenos Aires, where we treated ourselves to a boutique hotel for a night after the privations of the jungle. Life for the first week in B.A. was quite relaxed because it is not a city where there are lots of sights to rush around seeing but more somewhere to soak up the atmosphere. It is so cheap in BA we ate like kings. We borrowed the Wallpaper city guide, which in mo ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more