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Argentina is the second-largest country in South America, and the eighth-largest in the world. The highest and the lowest points of South America are also located in Argentina: At 6,960m, Cerro Aconcagua is the tallest mountain in the Americas while Salinas Chicas, at 40m below sea level, is the lowest point in South America.
At the southern tip of Argentina there are several routes between the South Atlantic and the South Pacific Oceans including the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel, and the Drake Passage as an alternative sailing around Cape Horn in the open ocean between South America and
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The world's biggest road, Avenida 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires.
Where else would be so short of sights that the world's widest road, 20 lanes of gas guzzling madness [some lanes are not visible in this picture, they're on the other side of the trees to the left and right] running right through the city centre, and loaded with cars and stinking, roaring buses is a sight in its own right?
And on the subject of cars, don't even think of driving in this city, where taxis are brutal if you're driving, but dirt cheap if you're hiring, and parking is the usual nightmare, only in Spanish, and the police are famously - shall we say - unsympathetic and poorly paid.
Caminito, La Boca, Buenos Aires.
Probably the number one tourist sight in Buenos Aires is Caminito - in the La Boca barrio - a short, narrow block of cheap and ancient housing painted in effervescent colours, apparently begged off shipcrews docked nearby. Caminito is, however, something of a tiny tourist trap with buildings outnumbered by tourist buses and does not at all represent the city, nor does it take long to see. However...
Cementario de la Recoleta, Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
The Bugcrew's favourite sight in Buenos Aires is less lively than Caminito, in fact it's the totally dead cemetery of the rich and arrogant in the Recoleta district, where wealthy, big-name families have invested staggering amounts of pud - doubtless torn from the hands of the poor, huddled masses over the years - in tombs to die for.
Gorgeous marble statues of weeping angels, powerful generals and stern fathers, gilded murals, stained glass and sculpted bronzes crowd this space, enlivened only by flowers and somnolent cats.
And the the prize for the most contentious tomb goes to...
Galerias Pacifico
Originally built in 1889 but redeveloped in 1992, Galerias Pacifico, off the popular pedestrian street Florida, is one of Buenos Aires' most popular shopping malls.
For those lucky few with money to spend Argentina is a shopping paradise, with high quality, sophisticated goods on sale for silly prices by European or North American standards. Leather goods are naturally a favourite purchase with all the steaks on tables out there, but also silver and gold jewellery, wonderful antiques and silverware in the San Telmo area, designer clothing in Palermo Viejo, and Avenida Alvear or Santa Fe for just about anything.
Guys may be especially interested in leather jackets and trainers, girls in matching shoe/handbag combinations.
And don't forget to ask for a bill and tax receipt [cheque de reintegro] for big ticket items so when you leave Argentina you'll get up to 16% of the 21% tax back at the airport's puesto de pago.
Boca Juniors soccer stadium
Club Atlético Boca Juniors, known also as Boca Juniors or simply Boca, is a popular Argentine sports club, best known for its football team. Its home base is the neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, and their home field is Estadio Alberto J. Armando, better known as La Bombonera. They are the reigning holders of the Recopa Sudamericana title. Their main rival is River Plate, with whom they contest the Superclásico.
The riverwalk at the Rocha Bend of the Riachuelo.
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