Overview
Argentina is a country of distances, so a first trip works best built around two or three regions rather than a single loop. Buenos Aires is the usual opening, and the Lake District around Bariloche, the glaciers of El Calafate and the wine roads of Mendoza each justify a flight of their own.
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Fun fact
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At 6,961 metres, Cerro Aconcagua in Mendoza province is the highest mountain outside Asia, and the highest point in both the Southern and Western hemispheres.