Nick

Into Argentina: Beautiful, Big Headed Buenos Aries

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October 13th 2009
Waiting for yet another night bus so here's the story so far for Argentina. After a lovely night sleeping like babies in first class we arrived the border town of Villazon around 7am. After what they told us was a qiuck walk over the border (more like an hours walk) we arrived La Quica. La Quica is a typical S American border town, lots of tourists and lots of people out to fleece the tourists. Fo ... read more

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

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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