Travel in Argentina

Argentines love to talk, especially about football and beef. Offer to share a parrillada para dos dinner with an Argentine and you will have a friend for life. It won’t take a lot of time spent, either, with Argentine friends before they are firing up a plethora of meats on the grill for everyone to enjoy. You’ll eat every part of the cow, kidneys and intestines included. If you luck out you will be served the brain and udder too.

Being so far from the northern hemispheres but still all so sophisticated, the Argentines have their own version of everything in pop culture – music and literature. Verse yourself in their culture and you’ll soon have something to chat about. Check out authors Jorge Luis Borges and Ernesto Sabato as well as bands like Los Redonditos and Joaquin Sabina. If you want to get old school there is always Carlos Gardel and the tango.

The south of Argentina consists of wide expanses of flatlands. It is a land of farmers, campesinos and ranches, estancias. If you enjoy riding horses and the rural life well away from bustling cities, try to spend some time at an estancia.

In the cities, consider starting to smoke cigarettes if you do not do so already. The entire country smokes incessantly in just about every public place except for the subway.