Blogs from Santa Fe, Argentina, South America - page 4

In every tourist book of Argentina, they will tell you to be wary of the traffic. Most people, including myself, don't pay much attention to this at first. However, when you get here and try to walk in the cities, you must learn quick to watch for traffic or your trip will make a sudden and unexpected stop. The traffic here in Argentina is very bad, especially in the larger cities. Also, it doesn't help that most drivers don't obey any traffic laws. It is not uncommon to see cars parked on the sidewalk or a line of cars parked in the middle of the street, only allowing one lane of traffic to traverse a road that could easily fit three lanes of cars. Basic rule of thumb, if there's space for a car, a car ... read more

The flight down to Buenos Aires from Seattle, WA was definitely an interesting one. United Airlines to Los Angeles, CA, TACA to San Salvador, El Salvador, TACA to Lima, Peru, TACA to Buenos Aires. Layovers EVERYWHERE!!! Though, after 29 hours and a really shady, 7 hour stay at San Salvador's Cuscatlan International Airport is enough to tire anyone out. That airport was indeed the most stereotypical Central American airport I have ever seen. Paint peeling off the walls, floor tiles dirty, unclean bathrooms, extremely rough runway and taxiways. I couldn't believe that an airline as fine as TACA would affiliate themselves with this airport, let alone make it their hub. It was an extreme relief to make it to Lima's airport. Extremely modern and clean, better than most American airports. After arriving in Buenos Aires, I ... read more

When I first got to Argentina, I didn't really have plans to go to Rosario. Not that I wasn't interested, but the guidebooks seem to skip over Rosario, and I didn't meet many other backpackers that were heading that way. However, in Patagonia, I met two different hostel workers that both insisted I go see Rosario (where they were originally from). Then, in Ushuaia, I was sharing a room with a girl from Rosario, who insisted that I go to Rosario. She said she LOVED her city, everything about it was amazing, and that I must go. Decision made! I managed to find an incredibly cheap last minute flight out of Ushuaia to Buenos Aires. The only catch was that it landed in Buenos Aires at two in the morning. I landed in Buenos Aires, got ... read more

So, my Buenos Aires blog was kind of rushed, seeing as I wrote it a couple of days after I actually left the city so I am writing my Rosario one when I am actually in the city! Well, the weather today is pretty bad, I am quite disappointed that I couldn´t head to the beach and work on my tan to make you all jealous! There is not a huge amount to do in Rosario if the weather is poor, apart from go to a museum, which I walked for 45 minutes in the rain to get to, only to be told by a delivery man that it is a Día Municipal (like a bank holiday weekend type thing!) and that all the museums are closed for the weekend! Brilliant. Luckily, the rain had gone ... read more

Not too far from Rosario’s national flag monument lays a unique pool with odd rock figures in the center where children can often be found jumping from rock to rock. At second glance, however, and you can see that it is in fact a monument which commemorates those who perished in the Falkland’s War. Around the pool, a semi-circle wall lists the approximately 649 Argentine soldiers who were lost in the war. I didn’t realize until after I saw the Falkland Island monument in Rosario that I have now seen all of the monuments dedicated to the Falkland War within Argentina. It turns out that the Argentines have three monuments commemorating those who perished in the Malvinas War (the second one in Ushuaia and the third in San Martin Plaza in Buenos Aires). I personally believe ... read more