In Buenos Aires on a Sunday, we walked back to the San Telmo Flea Market hoping to see everyone dressed in costumes, bands and entertainment (see earlier article…put in date when it runs). Wrong. Our earlier visit happened to be a special day. San Telmo is still fun and interesting but nothing like the one [...]
“Travel Tips & Advice on Argentina”
One Last Day In Buenos Aires, Argentina and Antarctica Thoughts
April 28th, 2008 
Sheila Simkin 
Posted in Antarctica, Argentina, Cruises 
Tags: adventure, Antarctica, Argentina, Buenos Aires, cruises, cruising Antarctica, destination, event, events, food, information, landmark, log, M/V Lyubov Orlova, nature, Polar regions, Quark Expeditions, sightseeing, travel, Ushuaia 
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Navigating Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport, Argentina
March 1st, 2008 Sheila Simkin Most international flights leave Buenos Aires between 9:00 pm and 1:00 am. Air Malaysia, Lufthansa, Delta, United, American, Continental, COPA (Panama), LAN Chile, CAM (Brazil), GOL (Brazil), British Midland, Alitalia, Air Canada, British Airways, Iberia, Aerolineas Argentina, Air France, South African Airways, Quantas and Bolivia. No wonder the airport is in chaos! Take a tranquilizer [...]
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Evita, Recoleta Cemetery and Che Guevara – Argentina Icons
February 29th, 2008 Sheila Simkin Today’s sightseeing involved Evita, Eva Peron. Almost every tourist makes the pilgrimage to Recoleta Cemetery (free) to see her family’s mausoleum there. View image… The cemetery is filled with stylized mausoleums in designs from Egyptian to Art Deco. You can buy a cemetery map outside the gates but we just followed the long line of [...]
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Buenos Aires Shopping and San Telmo Flea Market, Argentina
February 28th, 2008 Sheila Simkin Buenos Aires has quite a few new shopping areas. The most hip and trendiest are in the Palermo District, Palermo Viejo and Palermo Soho with street after street filled with little boutiques. HINT: The boutiques don’t usually open until 11:00 am. And then there is Palermo Hollywood, the happening place for new chic restaurants and [...]
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Visiting The Always Fun City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
February 27th, 2008 Sheila Simkin It was an easy flight from Chicago to Washington, DC but then a long 5-hour layover until our 12-hour flight left for Buenos Aires with a 10:00 am arrival the next day. Around 4-5 planes (Air France, Iberia, American Airlines and United) land at the same time. That creates one of the longest lines through [...]
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