Last Frontiers' articles for Argentina (Press articles)
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Chris Moss with the gauchos in Argentina
Chris Moss travelled to Argentina, re-visiting the Pampas to marvel at the gauchos and stay at some of the most authentic estancias close to Buenos Aires. Estancias are traditionally family country ranches where one is usually looked after by the owners and the asado is a lunch time tradition....
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Whale watching in Argentina
The sea around the Valdes Peninsula is fabulous for whale watching. One of the best spots is near Puerto Madryn. The best times of year are July to October for Right whales and for killer whales, March and April. To see killer whales one would need to venture out further onto the peninsula and stay...
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Torres del Paine - a spellbinding sight
On 3 July the CNN website featured a list of twenty-seven sights that will remind you how incredible Earth is. Torres del Paine was featured among them (deservedly so, we feel). Patagonia has much to offer and you could choose to combine both Argentine and Chilean Patagonia. From Calafate in Argenti...
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Sian Lloyd in Patagonia
We recently had the pleasure of introducing Sian Lloyd and her husband Jonathan to the joys of Welsh Patagonia (and a touch of luxury in southern Chile's Torres del Paine).
Their trip started in Trelew (near the Valdes peninsula) before re-tracing the steps of the original Welsh settlers west to...
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Chris Moss in Patagonia
Journalist Chris Moss has just published a book (Patagonia: a cultural history, available from Signal Books), and his 6 July article in the Telegraph describes one journey that inspired it, as he crosses the continent from the Atlantic to the Andes.
You can read the whole of his evocative article a...
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The Wonder of Patagonia - Susan Wilkinson
They say that whoever eats the bitter calafate fruit growing in Patagonia will always return.
The first time I visited Patagonia was ten or twelve years ago. I wanted to see for myself the place where the Welsh men, women and children who had sailed from Liverpool on the Mimosa had disembarked on J...
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Latin lap of luxury (Douglas Rogers, October 2005)
Argentina is sexy again thanks to a range of cheap hotels opening across the country, says Douglas Rogers.
There's more to Argentina than tango and gauchos. After four years in the economic doldrums, the country is once again the sexiest destination in South America. A slate of chic new hotels in B...
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Sophie Campbell visits the Tigre Delta
There was a school party on the river bus. Chattering pupils, wearing life jackets as nonchalantly as British children might wear blazers, dumped their packs and got out cards. White-coated teachers studied their payslips.I leant on a warm ledge of varnished wood and reflected upon my last visit to...
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