After a trip with 8 hotels, 9 flights, and a 4,600 mile 14 day cruise, we are home. Our flight from Buenos Aires did not leave until 9:00 PM and we were not scheduled to be picked up until 5:00 PM. We had planned to spend the day enjoying Buenos Aires for one more day. We went out for a walk after breakfast and heard the sound of drumbeats in the distance. We walked towards the sound and ran into a huge protest with streets being blocked. It seems that some wel...

Today was a full day trip to the Estancia Santa Susana (ranch). We joined a full bus of other tourists for the over an hour drive outside the city. The ranch is quite pretty in a very rural area. It was built by an Irish Argentine couple and has been used as a tourist attraction for the past 25 years. We had the option to ride horses but opted to take a horse drawn wagon ride instead. Wise thing with my back. We had a couple of hours of free time to enjoy the ran...

The company (01Argentina) with whom we had booked the Iguazu Falls trip, had a 2 day special for Buenos Aires which included a Delta Tour (Tigre and San Isidro), an evening tango show and dinner, and a full day at an estancia (ranch). This morning was the Delta Tour. The Tigre River delta is the only delta in the world that empties into another river (the Rio de la Plata) rather than the ocean. The 1st stop was at San Isidro Station, a distinguished area that inc...

We thought we had seen it all yesterday. How wrong we were. Today we went to the Brazilian side of the falls. Yesterday we got up close and personal with the falls. Today, from the Brazilian side, we got a more panoramic view, giving us better appreciation of their magnitude. We left our luggage at the hotel to be picked up later and boarded a large bus. It took a while to go thru Argentine and Brazilian border stops and got to the falls about 10:00 AM. Then we t...

Yesterday we disembarked the Crown Princess and flew to Iguazu Falls, Argentina. We contracted with a tour company named 01Argentina. They had a package of air fare, 2 nights in a hotel, tours of both the Argentine and Brazilian sides of the falls, and all transfers that was cheaper than we could do on our own. We again got a personal transfer to the airport in a car rather than a bus. When we got to the town of Porto Iguazu, we joined up with 2 other couples to ...