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Argentina, Uruguay & Chile - From city life to the great outdoors

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The initial struggles and doubts ceased after some 3 days into the trip, by then I was able to wrap my head around things to start exploring and really dive into the adventures at hand.  We discovered some of the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, which gave us quite some European vibes in a lot of places, based out of our AirBnB in the hipster area of Palermo. Distances can be long in this metropol of approx. 15 million people,    walking only gets you this far and we figured out the public transportation being a convenient and affordable way to get around, of course Uber does the trick, too. Old city parts of San Telmo, the famous area of Boca including the legendary Boca stadium, a tango show and of course red wine and meat of all sorts (as a vegetarian Diana was struggling with options, sandwiches, pasta and papas fritas being the common go-to-meals). Also, Argentineans don‘t really seem to care for the quality of coffee - going for a coffee is more of an excuse to meet a...