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El Calafate and Spanish Lessons

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November 30th 2015
El Calafate and Spanish lessons I write as we are leaving El Calafate, bound for Punta Arenas via bus. We are hammering down the well-known Route 40 which runs the entire length of Argentina. Out the bus windows is the wide, dry (12" of rain a year), and wind blown pampas of southern Patagonia. Several times the driver has struggled with the winds to keep the bus on the road. Estancias (r ... read more

South America » Argentina

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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