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This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Argentina, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activies and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Argentina. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, hotels, activities from to culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Argentina are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Argentina. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors who use their on-the-ground experience to provide the very latest information; their local expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide to you the best places to stay and eat, so you can be confident that when we say a restaurant or hotel is special, we really mean it.

Like all Insight Guides , this e-book contains hundreds of beautiful photographs to inspire and inform your travel. We commission most of our own photography, and we strive to capture the essence of a destination using original images that you wont find anywhere else.

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Introduction: Go South

Slip on your tango shoes, your walking boots or your riding spurs, and lose yourself in one of the worlds most beautiful countries

Argentines have a lovely habit of making international visitors feel like guests rather than tourists. They are solicitous and sociable (How do you like Argentina? so often leads into Why dont you come round for a barbecue?) and they never tire of hearing travelers tell them how wonderful their country is. And travelers never tire of telling them. Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world, and surely one of the most beguiling and diverse. A fantasy itinerary makes the case. If you were to leave Buenos Aires (something many people find hard to do) and move counterclockwise around the country, you would pass through dry plains and muggy jungle, see and hear one of the worlds greatest waterfalls at Iguaz, traverse the cactus-studded uplands and deep valleys of the Northwest, roam down the Andean mountain range whose highest peaks look up only to the Himalayas, dip your toes into lakes that were once glaciers, all but press your nose up against glaciers that remain glaciers, hack your way through the primeval forests of Tierra del Fuego, and complete the circuit by returning northwards along the austere Atlantic coastline, much of whose marine wildlife is in the must-see-before-you-die category.

That this itinerary is less implausible than it sounds is a testament to how far Argentinas tourism industry has progressed over the last decade. The country has not rested on its clichs. The steaks you can cut with a spoon and the remote estancias where you can hang out with gauchos are still here (and still celebrated). But they have been joined by all manner of high-concept gastronomy and lavish design hotels.

Put another way, Argentina is ready for prime time. But it is far from tamed. The pampas grasslands, proverbially flat, are still best crossed on horseback. The perpetual gales that flay the Patagonian steppe can cause the hardiest gaucho to grimace. Even Buenos Aires, that most civilized of South American cities, has an epic, impalpable quality. So dont expect to conquer Argentina. Better to let it conquer you.

Che Guevara mural in San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

Yadid Levy

Argentinas Top 10 Attractions

A waterfall the height of an apartment block, a glacier the size of a city, a hip shopping and dining district, and a traditional rural town: just a few of the pleasures awaiting you in Argentina