If you want to explore a country and culture in a different way, CouchSurfing may be a solution: Sleep on someone’s ‘couch’ and experience a new place under the guidance of your local couchsurf host.

Gone are the days when riding an open-top bus or following a garrulous guide with a rainbow-coloured umbrella were the only ways to tour a city. Buenos Aires is now host to a plethora of options, the best five of which we have sussed out for you: 1. Fileteado Porteño Tour by 054 Fileteado, the [...]

With some 125 hostels in Buenos Aires, accommodation booking sites and travel guides are bursting at the seams with recommendations and it can be hard to choose somewhere to stay. Though once backpackers were expected to rough it and make do with bedbug-filled mattresses, midnight curfews and no mirrors, in recent years the explosion of [...]

This weekend is Carnaval! There will be parties all over the world in honor of Mardi Gras. Gualeguaychú has the largest, most famous and organised carnaval parade in Argentina.

Patagonia, while known for the penguins, is not known for its exotic animal. In 2009, all that changed with the opening of Bubalcó, one of the largest modern zoos in South America.

A trip to Patagonia doesn’t have to just entail glaciers, lakes and whale-watching, as Rosalind Walters discovers when she takes to the little-known Patagonian wine route in Río Negro.

In recent years English has become a desirable language to learn in a variety of industries across the world. As a result, TEFL (Teach English as a Foreign Language) courses have sprung up around the globe, providing expats with a great way to earn some much needed money during their travels. Buenos Aires is no [...]

Ushuaia, the proudly claimed southernmost city in the world, is a great option for breaking out of BA. But a century ago it was the destination of a very different sort of visitor, as Guy Tymorek discovers.

As Argentines flock en masse to Uruguay, Nicole Martínez checks out Casa Pueblo – an artist’s enclave a world away from the crowds and nightlife of Punta del Este.

Adam Taylor kits up and heads south to discover the breathtaking peaks and icy glacial lakes of Chile’s Torres del Paine national park in southern Patagonia.