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 [...]
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One Last Day In Buenos Aires, Argentina and Antarctica Thoughts
April 28th, 2008 
Sheila Simkin 
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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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Visiting the Penguins Along the Brunswick Peninsula of Chile – Patagonia in 1996
September 13th, 2006 Sheila Simkin The last part of the Patagonia trip ended on a fun note – visiting the penguin colony. The colony is located 65 kms north of Punta Arenas, on Seno Otway (Otway Inlet), along the Brunswick Peninsula. They are Magellanic Penguins and return annually to this spot between October and March to lay eggs and raise [...]
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There was Nothing to See in 1996 Punta Arenas, Chile but Penguins
September 12th, 2006 Sheila Simkin There probably still isn’t anything to see in Punta Arenas, the southernmost city on Earth. Punta Arenas overlooks the Straits of Magellan named after Ferdinand de Magellan (the Portuguese explorer) who led the first successful attempt to sail around the world. Magellan passed through the Straits not far from the present site of Punta Arenas [...]
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Driving to Puerto Natales, Patagonia in 1996
September 11th, 2006 Sheila Simkin Our three vehicles were waiting to drive us to our hotel in Puerto Natales, on Last Hope Sound for a Farewell Dinner. “ex-Marine” and I were riding in the third vehicle with an extremely macho driver. We got to an over-flowing stream crossing. There had been a lot of rain the previous night…what a surprise! [...]
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Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia
September 10th, 2006 Sheila Simkin We had a some great camps in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Argentina. Camping Lago Roca (located at the base of Cerro Crystal) had a general store, cafeteria, fishing equipment for hire, hot showers and very nice toilets! Hey…toilet facilities rank very high in importantance when you camp. And, it was relatively WARM here. Camp [...]
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Fitzroy Section of Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia – 1996
September 9th, 2006 Sheila Simkin We spent the next three days camping in this Park which is located in the area known as Austral Andes, Argentina, on the border with Chile. Los Glaciares National Park is a mecca for mountaineers and hikers. The main peaks of the massif are: Fitzroy (11,703′); Cerro Torre (10,280′); and Poincenot. Fitzroy is in the [...]
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