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Argentina10--I visited Buenos Aires and northern Patagonia from December 2009 to January 2010. In addition to studying Spanish, I visited many of the tourist attractions in BsAs and enjoyed New Year's and the Dakar Rally. Then I visited Junin de los Andes and Alumine to fish for trout in the Rio Chimehuin and Rio Alumine.

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Argentina10

In December to January 2009/2010, we visited Argentina for the second time. Three years earlier we visited southern Argentina, from Bariloche to Ushuaia. This time, we flew to Buenos Aires, the capital. We enrolled in IBL, a Spanish language school located on Florida Street in the heart of downtown. We rented an apartment and developed a daily routine. We awoke, had breakfast, rode the subway a few stops, walked to school and attended class for four or five hours. Afterwards, we had lunch, visited a tourist site and went home to rest and study some more.

After a month, I was exhausted. We took an overnight bus to Neuquen where we rented a car and drove to Junin. We stayed in the same apartment we rented three years earlier. The sleepy little town had grown up. We visited San Martin (to the south) and were amazed how much development had taken place. Part of the change was the season. Previously, we visited before Christmas. This time, Argentine families took advantage of summer school break to escape the heat of Buenos Aires. Many went to the beach, but the Andes was full of tourists. Unfortunately, the fishing was not as good as I remembered. The influx of tourists and the heat of summer slowed things down.