NICE-Travelling in Argentina
You want to see a bit of the beautiful country you are doing your internship in? Or are you planning a journey of South-America with a language course to start out with? Then we wish you wonderful discoveries on this page!

The Waterfalls of Iguazu:

Travelling in Argentina 1 A breathtaking natural wonder and an absolute must for every traveller in Argentine:
You will experience how the “big waters”, as the Guarani used to call the waterfalls, plummet fiercely from a heights of 70 meter into a deep crevasse. Along the 3 km- front of the waterfalls, countless islands are scattered and the vast amounts of water produce all kinds and sizes of rainbows when the sun is shining. To do the tour on foot, you can do a small tour (1 km) and a big tour – and for some relaxation, you can take part in a boat tour on the lower Iguazu towards the “Devil's Abyss” (Garganta del Diablo)!
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National Park Los Glaciares

Travelling in Argentina 2The glacier world in the national park of Los Glaciares is without a doubt one of the most thrilling natural wonders on earth. If you can spare a little time (since the journey is long), you should treat yourself to see this beautiful bit of earth: several glaciers, of whom Perito Moreno is the best known, disembogue into the mountain lake Lago Argentino. While most glaciers worldwide are losing mass due to the global warming, you can literally watch Perito Moreno growing. From time to time and resulting from great pressure, giant blocks or ice towers are tumbling into the effervescent lake accompanied by raving thunder. But even irrespective of this spectacular event, the masses of ice, mountains and lake with floes on it eave you with unforgettable and unspeakably beautiful impressions.
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Quebrada de Humahuaca

Travelling in Argentina 3The gulch Quebrada de Humahuaca is the highlight of the Argentine northwest. This UNESCO- World Natural Heritage with its colourful rock formations has been attracting artists from all over the world in the past. The best is to take a couple of days and visit the chain of small Indian villages and the remains of Inca fortresses that can be found along the 150 km-long stretch of the canyon. Those who want to travel on can easily continue to Bolivia here!
Historically speaking, the Humahuaca was the entrance to one of the most crucial cultural routes alongside the river valley of the Rio Grande. It has played a major role as trade and transport route for more than 10.000 years.
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Nature Parks of Ischigualasto and Talampaya

Travelling in Argentina 4320 km north of San Juan the valley of Ischigualasto is located. Together with the valley of Talampaya it constitutes a huge eroded landscape of about 6000 square kilometres. In the so-called “Valle de la Luna” (Moon Valley) countless science fiction movies have been filmed. Wind and water (millions of years ago there used to be great lakes in that area) have shaped the rocks into great sculptures. Fossils, dinosaur marks, petrified grasses and ferns show that life existed here as long as 200 millions of years ago. Among other things, the oldest saurial skeleton was found here! Another highlight in the nature park of Talampayas which is bordering to the “Moon Valley” in the province of La Rioja is a 3 km-wide canyon with rocky walls that rise to a height of up to 150 metres.
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Peninsula Valdes

Travelling in Argentina 5The natural preserve of Peninsula Valdes is a peninsula on the Atlantic coast of Patagonia. Anually between May and December, the whales of the southern region gather here for mating. From the bay of Puerto Piramide one can take a boat trip out onto the open sea to view this extraordinary event. Moreover, the peninsula “houses” plenty of sea lions, elephant seals, and even the greatest penguin colony (several million animals) outside of the Antarctica.
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Cueva de las Manos Pintadas, Rio Pinturas

Travelling in Argentina 6Rock paintings can be found in plenty of mountainous regions of Argentina. But especially famous is the rock art in the “Cueva de las manos pintadas” (Cave of painted hands) in the canyon of Rio Pinturas in the northwest of Santa Cruz. Here, one can find depictions of hands dating back to about 7350 B.C. Furthermore, one finds paintings of hunting scenes and of lamas and pumas, which are still endemic to the region today.
There is little known so far about the original emergence and usage of this archaeological place of pilgrimage. It is to be assumed that the descendants of those tribes which had created the rock paintings had lived in these caves up to the time of arrival of the first European settlers in the 17th century.
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Jesuit Mission of the Guarani:

Travelling in Argentina 7Many of these Christian Indian villages have been destroyed during the border wars of the 19th century and their ruins have been successively covered by the jungle. The most beautiful and nowadays still visitable of the Jesuit missions is Ignacio Mini containing edifices made from bunter and basalt, arcade ambulatories and Indian church paintings. Also very worthwhile visiting are the missions of Santa Ana, Loreto, Candelaria and Santa Maria.
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Jesuit Settlement and Estancias of Córdoba
Travelling in Argentina 8The Jesuit missions and Estancias of Córdoba are a very extraordinary mixture of aboriginal Indian cultures and European influences. The Jesuit facilities of Córdoba contains the typical main buildings of a Jesuit monastery: a university, a church, residential buildings and bordering Estancias that supplied the settlement. This setup reflects the attempt to base life in the mission in equal measure on religious and economic elements as well as the attempt to unite European culture with the culture of the natives.
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