Argentina beckons

It's been over two months since our last vacation, and I'm getting edgy about finalizing our next one! The one place where I've really never considered going before in the near future is Argentina, simply because it seems so far away, but lately it's really been intriguing me a lot, especially after a friend went for a volunteer vacation trip there.



So I started doing a bit of research on Argentina travel and seeing which places I would like to go to and the things I would like to do. One thing I know for sure, I really would love to stock up on their traditional textiles. My ideal kind of vacation is not the regular tourist routine, so I'd like to go into the country side, stay at smaller and less hotel-like places and explore on my own and maybe add in a bit of an adventure too.



When I travel to a new place, I like to do a little reading about it as most people do. Besides Lonely Planet guides and online research, I like to browse the travel literature section of the bookstore to find books about the area, but not necessarily travel guides. I find that these books often give a nicer perspective and a more realistic one of a place. In the sense that, you certainly don't want your travel to be just a series of tourist attractions that merge into one another by the end of a trip.



It's important to sit back and take in the atmosphere of a place to really enjoy it rather than go from place A to place B and so on. The trick is that not everyone has the time to do that and since most people feel that, well, I don't know when or if I'll be able to come back, so might as well see as much as I can. Hard as it is, I try to resist seeing everything in one go.

All photos from Argentina For Less.