Wander Argentina

Buenos Aires Airport Pick-up & Transfers

Argentina’s main international airport is 35 km from the Buenos Aires city center and is not serviced by subway or train. After a long international flight landing in Ezeiza’s chaotic arrivals area, the last thing you want to do is change money at the airport (and get a horrible rate, unless you go to the […]

Italians & La Dolce Vita in Argentina

They say that Argentines are Italians who happen to speak Spanish. With several waves of immigrants arriving from the boot-shaped nation since Argentina won independence from Spain, it seems every second person here has an Italian surname, and of those who don’t, most will have an uncle or a grandmother hailing from Genoa, Sicily, Friuli […]

Ten Tips for Hitchhiking in Argentina

Hitchhiking is legal throughout Argentina and is making a comeback among young backpackers. In more remote areas some locals hitchhike everyday, as it is the only mode of ‘public’ transport available. Be ready for anything as hitchhiking can be testing and occasionally fun and exciting. Here are ten quick tips to make your hitchhiking adventure […]

How to Use Taxis in Buenos Aires

In most major cities of Argentina taxis are abundant. Buenos Aires in particular, with its 40,000 cabs, is one of the best cities in the world to take a taxi. The black and yellow cars abound —there is one car for every 80 inhabitants — and it’s fairly easy to hail one on any major […]

Hitchhiking in Argentina: Gear, Patience and Safety

Hitchhiking in Argentina is smelly, exhausting, wet, sweaty, cold, hot, windy, dry, uncomfortably awkward and highly rewarding. Thumbing rides in this huge, sparsely populated country can mean days in a variety of miserable conditions, from icy Patagonian wind to a tropical Andean heat. Still nothing compares to a ride well earned, that sudden thrill of […]

The Irish in Argentina

“The first thing to note is that in my son’s veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels.” —Ernesto Guevara Lynch, speaking of his son, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. Everyone knows the iconic image of Argentina’s Che Guevara, but few know that the revolutionary was of Irish heritage, along with roughly a half a million […]