Argentina

Buenos Aires

4.5.2008 - Plaza de Mayo

Casa Rosada (The president of the Argentina official workplace)

National Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution

A protest by war veterans of the 1982 Falklands (Malvinas) War against the UK

"La Bombonera" - Boca Juniors soccer team stadium

La Boca Neighbourhood

La Boca poor side

Garibaldi Street - Where Adolph Eichmann lived and was kidnapped to face trial Israel in 1960

Puerto Madero

Floralis Generica sculpture in Plaza Naciones Unidas (United Nations)

La Recoleta Cemetery

The grave (& Pantheon) of Eva Peron (Evita)

Raoul Wallenberg Memorial

Cafe Tortoni

Avenida 9 de Julio - Bicycle race, The Obelisk

View of Avenida 9 de Julio (THE WIDEST AVENUE in the world!)

5.10.2008 - San Carlos de Bariloche

Llao Llao Hotel

Caracara bird

6.10.2008 Cerro Otto, Bariloche

The art gallery on Cerro Otto exhibits permanently the exact copy of the famous statue of David (The original is in Florence, Italy)

Driving from Bariloche to Villa Angostura & Parque National Los Arrayanes

Nahuel Huapi Lake

Condor

Parque National Los Arrayanes

Back in our hotel

7.10.2008 - Driving from Bariloche to Cerro Tronador & Ventisquero Negro (The Black Glacier)

Driving to view Cerro (Mountain) Tronador

Cerro Tronador

Having lunch in Hosteria Pampa Linda (on route 82 toward the Back Glacier)

Ventisquero Negro (The Black Glacier)

Driving back from the glacier on a dirt road

Back in Bariloche

8.10.2008 - Lake Crossing journey from Bariloche across the Andes to Chile

Crossing the Argentinian Andes through Nahuel Huapi Park

18.10.2008 - Coming back from Chile to Argentina through border station at Cancha Carrera, Santa Cruz province

Rout 40 to El Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina

El Calafate

19.10.2008 - "Quo Vadis" catamaran ship cruise in Lago Argentino

Spegazzini Glacier

On the bus back to El Calafate

20.10.2008 - Perito Moreno Glacier

Pieces of ice from the glacier falling into Lago Argentino's water

1st stage - before

2nd stage - a chunk of ice is falling into the water

3rd stage - the ice chunks create a splash

4th stage - the chunks disappear into the water

Flying from El Calafate Airport to Ushuaia

Aerial view of Ushuaia & the Beagle Channel

Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (1100 km from Antarctica)

21.10.2008 - Ushuaia Port, boarding on a catamaran for a Beagle Channel Cruise

Bridges Islands

Sea Lions & cormorants

Icebreaker cruise ship "Capitan Khlebnikov" destined for Antarctica

The certificate confirming that we have visited latitude 55 south

Evita Peron Memorial

Views of Ushuaia ocean front

Seagulls (Dolphin gulls)

Views of Ushuaia ocean front

Boats of the Argentinian Navy

King Crab

Tren del Fin del Mundo (used to be the "train of prisoners" ) - The southernmost railway in the world

Yamana (Indigenous people) dwellings (recreated)

Tierra del Fuego National Park

Beavers Lodges (houses)

A Dam built by beavers

Stephanie with our local guide

22.10.2008 - A sightseeing tour of Ushuaia by car

Extinct indigenous people, Museum "Fin del Mundo" (End of the World)

Ramos Generales restaurant (and its toilets...)

22.10.2008 - Back in Buenos Aires, dinner at Suipacha restaurant

The Obelisk at night

23.10.2008 - The Monumental Tower (formerly known as "Tower of the English"), Plaza Fuerza Aerea Argentina, Buenos Aires

1982 Malvinas (Falklans) War Memorial (Plaza Fuerza Aerea Argentina, near Plaza San Martin)

Street scenes & views

Jewish Synagogue - Templo Libertad

"El Ateneo Grand Splendid" bookstore, used to be a theatre

Dinner at "La Estancia" restaurant

Tango show at El Viejo Almacen ("The Old Warehouse")

24.10.2008 - The view of Avenida 9 de Julio from our Pestana Hotel room