As we clambered up the rocks, a beach with a small colony of sunbathing sea lions appeared ahead of us. The heads of the sea lions spun round in unison as they heard our approach and by the time we had climbed down off the rocks and waded through the sea to a little cove, most of them […]
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MacDermott’s Argentina organises a variety of different types of trips but we specialise in horse riding holidays and adventure holidays, we work all round the country and occasionally, when it is an intrinsic part of the a trip in the neighbouring countries. All the photos in this album were taken during trips organised by MacDermott’s Argentina […]
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Buenos Aires is a fabulously boisterous fascinating city that never lets you stop dancing. It is second only to New York on its number of theatres, there are more bookshops per capita than any other city in the world and it is bursting at the seems with culture. MacDermott’s Argentina feels beyond fortunate to call […]
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The impossibly delicate waif-like bodies of the Vicuna are a stark contrast to the harsh barren lands of their home, the Andean steppes that stretch from northwest Argentina to Colombia. At first sight, you can confuse their delicate shapes drifting across the landscape with the heat shimmering off the hot ground. It is easy see […]
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The tallest peak outside the Himalayas presented itself as an obvious challenge to a novice mountaineer like myself in 2009. A technically easy summit, Aconcagua is spiced with the dangers of extreme weather and altitude. At the time the mountain was under some notoriety as the month before it had claimed five lives. As I made final […]
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A short series of photos detailing the process of how to pack your mule, just in case you find yourself having to cross the Andes by foot or by horse.
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Each province, parish and town in Argentina holds a country show each year and one of the most important of these is the Fiesta de la Tradicion held each October in San Antonio de Areco- a small, handsome town 60 km from the city of Buenos Aires. The main activity of the Argentine country show […]
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Each of Argentina’s provinces has their unique variation of gaucho folk music and they vary in style across the country. Folklore is an umbrella term for all gaucho folk music, it is hugely popular in Argentina and Las Peñas Folkloricas are when anyone gets together to play and dance folklore. Las Peñas come in all forms […]
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An Asado is simply a barbeque, though in Argentina it is a huge part of the culture. It is their Sunday lunch; Christmas, Easter, Birthdays are all, generally, accompanied by an Asado – in fact any event that isn’t is probably not much of an event. And the Asado is not just reserved for hot […]
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Cross country – a specialist magazine for para-gliders and hang-gliders – lists paragliding in Traslasierra as one of the world’s top paragliding destinations and in 2014 it hosted the Paragliding World Cup Tour. Traslasierra literally means behind-the-hill, it is a relatively flat valley behind the Cordoban sierras. The sierras rise up from the valley almost […]
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