The “Paris of South America,” Buenos Aires blends European elegance and Latin American passion. Walking through it’s neighbourhoods illustrates the many cultures that have influenced the city: San Telmo’s colonial buildings and cobblestone streets, the rainbow-coloured buildings of La Boca’s Caminito Street reflecting its immigrant past, trendy Palermo showing a more modern face of the city’s multiculturalism. Tango, created in the working-class port neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and Uruguay, spills from cafes beside leafy plazas, and the rich scent of grilling beef drifts from traditional parrillas. Located near the mouth of the Atlantic and surrounded by the Pampas, an enormous grassland plain that covers an area the size of Texas, Buenos Aires is also an ideal location to explore the traditional homeland of gauchos, skilled horsemen and cattle herders who embody Argentina’s rural heritage.

Activities:

• Step into Argentina’s timeless gaucho culture at as you ride through the pampas that generations of these legendary horsemen have called home, either on horseback or by traditional carriage. An important part of Argentinian national identity, their exceptional skills and knowledge of the land were critical to Argentina winning it’s independence from Spain.
• Discover the soul of Argentina through tango as you watch world-class performers and live musicians bring its passionate rhythms to life and (if you want) learn the fundamental moves firsthand.
• City Tour of Buenos Aires.