Live, Study, Work & Volunteer in Argentina
To celebrate the Dia de la Mujer, or International Women’s Day, this month Wander Argentina sponsored a professional massage giveaway for ladies only on the Wander Argentina Facebook Page. We assigned a number to each woman who signed up (and is in Buenos Aires) and used the website, Random.org, to randomly select a winner. The [...]
Argentines have made ‘mañana mentality’ and their love of partying official. Argentina ranked number one as the country with the most paid national holidays per year for 2012. Argentina will have celebrated a total of 19 public holidays and twenty paid vacation days for the year. Not just government workers reap the benefits of the [...]
Without a DNI (Argentine identity card) foreigners in Argentina will not be able to get a cell phone contract in most cases.This means that most visitors use pay-as-you-go or prepago cellphone plans. Using pay-as-you-go means becoming accustomed to the bothersome ‘no credit’ beep and wondering how a one-minute phone call could possibly have used up [...]
This Saturday brings La Noche de Los Museos, a special night for art and culture fans in Buenos Aires. The city-wide event lasts only 7 hours but is planned throughout the year. One-hundred and eighty museums will open their doors to invite in the public to peruse art and see live entertainment for free on November [...]
The city of Buenos Aires is yet again rolling out a new festival. The first Festival de la Bici (Bicycle Festival) is set to take place this weekend, October 27 and 28. Under the motto, ‘Two days, Two wheels, A Thousand Things to See,’ the event is another push to promote two-wheel transportation in Buenos [...]
For visitors or those living in Buenos Aires it has become almost painful to get money from ATM machines. This is because the bank rate is considerably lower than the black market rate (or blue market as its referred to now). Enter Xoom money wire service which allows those who have a U.S. bank account or [...]
The streets of Buenos Aires are like any large South American city — congested, chaotic and dangerous. The familiar sounds of blaring horns, growling engines and screaming sirens reverberate down the city streets. The painted traffic lines are interpreted more like suggestions than guidelines, almost saying: ‘You can drive here if you want, but you [...]
The unsettling discovery that you have fewer pesos than you anticipated can happen often for students living on a tight budget in Buenos Aires. Monetary dilemmas, such as where to eat lunch or do laundry cheaply and how to save for a weekend trip or a night out with friends constantly haunt the student without [...]
Who is the bearded guy whose placid, smiling face greeted stress-out workers on the huge posters of the subway platforms of Buenos Aires in recent weeks? A closer inspection of the publicity spots reveal it to be Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, one of India’s leading spiritual gurus and marketing geniuses of today. ‘Sri’ is an [...]
If any city in the world is ripe for some spiritual diddling to sooth its weary soul, it’s Buenos Aires. Enter Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a guru-cum-businessman who will lead a meditation session in Palermo tomorrow before an expected audience of 100,000 people. Not to be confused with the world-famous sitar player of the same [...]
