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Argentina

Just wait until you get to Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires is like leaping aboard a moving train. Outside the taxi window, an unclear mosaic of drab apartment blocks and haphazard architecture whizzes by as you shoot beside the freeway toward the center of town. The driver – probably driving way too quickly while chain-smoking and talking continually about government corruption – finally merges off the freeway. Then the real city appears, the cafés, the purple jacaranda flowers draped over the sidewalks, stylish porteños (residents of Buenos Aires) walking purposefully past the newspaper stands and candy kiosks and handsome early-20th-century stone facades. The distance from Argentina's northern tip to Tierra Del Fuego spans 2,263 miles. The range of happenings you can find here is no less grand, associating from the sophisticated bustle of Buenos Aires to the unusual jungles and beating falls of Iguazú or the booming display of icebergs in Los Glaciares National Park. If you've come to ramble on the silent towns of the Lake District or dance the night aside in a hazy, low-lit Argentine tango bar, your trip to the Southern Hemisphere won't dissatisfy. Here, we recommend the finest that Argentina has to offer -- museums, outdoor adventures, hotels, and all the side trips to Chile. Get people free-associating on the word ‘Argentina,’ and it’s quickly apparent why the country has long held travelers in awe: tango, Patagonia, beef, soccer, Tierra del Fuego, passion, Mendoza's wine country. Get them riffing a bit more on the subject, and their wanderlust will be inflamed: from the soul-stirring Parque Nacional Iguazú in the country's subtropical north, to the thunderous, crackling advance of the Perito Moreno Glacier in the south, Argentina's natural attractions are the stuff travelers' dreams are made of.

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