argentina: epilogue
from the snowy tip of tierra del fuego via the almost painful chic of buenos aires to the balmy heat of iguazu, argentina is the country which we have explored for the most time and in the most depth. it is not a place which bears the scars of the not so recent economic crisis as vividly as i had been led to believe, from the ambience of the neighbourhoods to the prices of everything, from food to transport. the individual sights, the novelty of being so close to the antartic, of watching whales toy with a boat for attention, of being slowly drenched by the spray from a hundred waterfalls, all anchored by a capital city to compete with any in the world, stand up against almost all other destinations. and yet argentina retains the feel of a holiday destination rather than a travelling one, if such a distinction is not too artificial. a beautiful, civilized country blessed with colonial finery and an almost embarrassingly large plethora of natural attractions is how argentina revealed itself to us, but it is one which left me with a warm, comfortable feeling of contentment rather than any visceral desire to shout my happiness from the rooftops.
posted by bicrom @ 7:39 pm
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