subject: Excellent Travel Tips Romancing The Wine Country Challenging Slopes For Your Game Land Of Wine And T [print this page] Buenos Aires Bike Tours and Buenos Aires Cheap Flights
Get to know Buenos Aires intimately by foregoing treading the beaten path and taking a bike tour instead. Touring a city aboard a bicycle offers a unique perspective and access to its innermost workings. The Pearl of South America has a growing number of bike tour operators, giving you a plethora of options. There are a number of bike tour operators in the city, most have English-speaking guides who can take you around the most popular locations in the city. You can choose from a number of tour themes, half-day or full-day tours, taking you through the city to the Tigre Delta. Some of the highlights include Puerto Madero, Ecologic Reserve, 'Costanera Sur', La Boca, San Telmo, Plaza de Mayo Square, Retiro, Thays Park, Barrio Parque Neighborhood, and the Palermo and Recoleta neighborhoods. Bike operators will be providing you with the bikes, helmets, child seats, rainwear, and bottled water.
Golf and Buenos Aires Cheap Flights
Argentina offers more than just wine, football and tango, the country also has some of the best golf destinations in the Americas. Argentinas province of Cordoba offers some of the best golfing destinations in the world. Golf all year round and choose amongst 32 excellent golf courses in the province. The province boasts of natural slopes that give its courses challenging undulations. Cordoba is also home to world renowned golfers Eduardo Romero and Angel Cabrera as well as some of the most treasured sites of Argentina: 8th and 9th century churches, monasteries and old houses. The La Cumbre Golf club is one of the best golf courses in Cordoba; the course is over 75 years old and features sprawling stretches of slopes. Villa Allende Cordoba Golf Club is nestled at the base of Sierras Chicas and this traditional, English style golf course is considered among the best in the country. The mountain landscape gives this course challenging slopes that will surely raise your level of play. The city of Alta Gracia has the top-rated Potrerillo de la Reta, designed by world-renowned golf course designer Angel Reartes.
The Colorful Streets of Buenos Aires
Some of the most interesting thoroughfares in the world can be found in Buenos Aires. When you fly in with your Buenos Aires cheap flights, make sure you draw up an itinerary that includes these wonderful avenues. Starting with Avenida Alvear, passing through the upscale Recoleta area, this is the address for a number of five-star hotels, embassies, palaces, and examples of French academy architecture. Avenida Alvear runs from the Plazoleta Carlos Pellegrini to Alvear Plaza, a total of seven blocks. Caminito should also be part of your street itinerary. Colorfully restored by local artist Benito Quinquela Martn, this street retains its European charm from its early settlers who hail from the Italian city of Genoa. Take a dose of tango and Porteo culture in Avenida Corrientes. Avenida del Libertador links the downtown area to upscale areas to the northwest and passes by some of the city's best-known museums, gardens and cultural points of interest. Avenida de Mayo is another notable destination with its buildings done in Art Nouveau, Neoclassic and eclectic styles; equally important are Florida Street and Avenida 9 de Julio, named in honor of Argentina's Independence Day.
City Parks and Buenos Aires Cheap Flights
With the spectacular variety of attractions in Argentina, the parks and gardens of Buenos Aires are often overlooked. When you fly in with your Buenos Aires cheap flights, head out to the citys parks and gardens for a quiet place to take in the sights, sounds, and smells of Buenos Aires. Begin your adventures with the Jardin Japones, the largest Japanese-themed botanical garden outside of Japan; it has an onsite cultural center, restaurant, a bonsai tree collection, and a gift shop that offers the works of artisans. The parks central lake, teeming with Koi, is crossed by the Divine Bridge, and is surrounded by plants and trees common in Japan, such as sakura, katsura, momiji and azalea. Spend a leisurely hour or two in the Parque Tres de Febrero. This park covers 62 acres of the Palermo neighborhood, and features groves, lakes, and rose gardens. Boat rides are available on the three artificial lakes within the park. An absolute must is the Plaza de Mayo. This square is surrounded by the city's major landmarks: the Cabildo, the Casa Rosada, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires, the monument to General Manuel Belgrano, and the headquarters of the Nacin Bank.
