Argentina

If you find yourself in Salta, Argentina, this beautiful restored 20th century colonial style posada was comfortable, well-priced and the staff made us feel incredibly welcome.

Many visitors to Argentina never even hear of Cafayate, but this wine region is easily one of the highlights of our time in the country.

A city of Italian immigrants, Buenos Aires has incredible pizza all over town. The key is knowing where to go, so we went ahead and sampled over a dozen pizza joints in the name of research. Read on to find out the best pizza places in Buenos Aires in our expert opinion.

We arrived in Buenos Aires last week and realized that to be fully accepted as ‘Porteñas’, we needed to get our very own Mate, a hollowed-out gourd used to drink Yerba Mate.

We visited 10 countries this year, and we fell in love with a lot of the places we visited. Which cities made it into our top five favorite destinations of 2012?

This week’s Polaroid features one of the exceptional female sculptures that decorate many of the historical buildings in Buenos Aires.

This week’s Polaroid features an accordion player at the Feria de Mataderos, a craft market and street fair in Buenos Aires that embraces the country’s gaucho culture.

Visiting the Nahuel Huapi National Park with its mighty Mount Tronador and the unique Black Glacier was one of our highlights in Argentina!

This week’s Polaroid features the rare phenomenon of black ice, which we saw at the Ventisquero Negro glacier near Bariloche in Argentina.

While Ernesto Che Guevara is famous worldwide, we don’t find much about him at all in his very own country. This week’s Polaroid of the Week looks at Che Guevara, up close and personal in his home town of Rosario, Argentina.