Exploring Central & South America

Spent time daydreaming in the office lately? Whether you’re getting restless from the cold fronts and winter storms, or are just eager for that sweet spring escape, it’s the perfect time to start thinking about places to visit in South America. Luckily for us in the Northern Hemisphere, the best time to visit South America […]

Arriving to Argentina’s Lake District and San Carlos de Bariloche you can easily forget that you are in fact in Argentina and South America. With wooden clad chalets, boutique chocolate shops, the smell of wood burning fires and of course the white peaks of mountains and blue lakes; Bariloche is just as Swiss as an […]

Within the Argentine Lake District are the renowned Seven Lakes near to San Carlos de Bariloche passing through the Lanín and Nahuel Huapi National Parks. If you are visiting this beautiful, picturesque and tranquil region of Argentina and South America, you will not be disappointed. The route around the seven magnificent lakes passes the Correntoso, […]

San Carlos de Bariloche, usually known as Bariloche, lies in the province of Río Negro, Argentina. Since the 1930s the city has been a major tourism center with ski, trekking and mountaineering facilities apart from numerous restaurants, cafés and chocolate shops.  Did you think immediately about Belgium or Switzerland, when reading the word ‘chocolate’? There’s […]

Late September, for those in the Northern Hemisphere, marks the first hints of autumn, and conversely for Southern Hemisphere dwellers September heralds the much anticipated springtime. If you were out and around in Buenos Aires yesterday you would have noticed many people walking around holding a single cut flower. September 21st is not, as you […]