TRAVEL ARTICLE: Northern Patagonia, Argentina
by Sean Arbabi

ARGE-PG-0309: Condor soars, Patagonia, Argentina
ARGE-PG-0309: Condor soars, Patagonia, Argentina
It owes its name from the term Vuriloche ("different people from behind the other side"), used to distinguish the natives from the valleys located west of the Andes, before the arrival of the mapuche people. Since then, Bariloche has become one of Argentina’s main tourist destinations offering quaint hotels and village facilities, energetic discos, and a great deal of stunning scenery, beauty offered by the natural environment surrounding the area. Northern “Patagonia”, as Magellan named it, is also where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hung out when on the lam, and where Charles Darwin wrote about the vast plains as “created solely to give the imagination room to flourish”.

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ARGE-PG-0215: Andes sunset reflection, Argentina
ARGE-PG-0215: Andes sunset reflection, Argentina


ARGE-PG-0516: Mount Tronador ascent, Argentina
ARGE-PG-0516: Mount Tronador ascent, Argentina


ARGE-PG-0408: Guanaco Skull in Patagonia
ARGE-PG-0408: Guanaco Skull in Patagonia


   
 





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