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This are some of my own travel articles and a selection of the best Travel Guides available in the market.

My personal Articles cover What to Do, Where to Do it, When to Do it, How to it in Buenos Aires, rest of Argentina and alternative destinations. All articles have personal independent reviews and pictures taken by me. Remember that our commitment is that We’ve Been There and Done That. This short guides will help you move and plan faster within each destination, and I guarantee will help you save money, time, and a lot of bad experiences. The FEE per download is a way for you to support our work and to allow us to continue bringing more relevant and updated information to you all.

The commercial Travel Guides listed, are to my opinion the best yet available on the market. I have personally traveled all over Artgentina, Uruguay and the City of New York, finding them very handy and up-to-date.

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( TRAVEL ARTICLES By +CM )

Uruguay is delightfully low-key and surprisingly diverse, but you won’t find a guidebook for it - until now. This custom guide, made up of chapters selected from Lonely Planet's Argentina guidebook, covers Uruguay, including cosmopolitan Montevideo and the wilder outer reaches. We've also included buzzing Buenos Aires because, let's face it, you're in the area already – why not take in the BA blend of old-world languor and contemporary attitude? Sound like your kind of thing? Then this is the CUSTOM guide for you.

>> LONELY PLANET URUGUAY

This deceptively small map of Buenos Aires puts most guidebooks to shame. Pocket Pilots city map/guides are shirt-pocket sized, easy-to-fold, laminated, easy to read, and packed to bursting with useful information, including how to use/navigate the public transit system, a brief and pithy guide to the citys most popular points of interest, a neighborhood-by-neighborhood description of the city, listings of parks, cultural events, and hot spots, notes on local cuisine, and useful phrases - and, above all, a street map featuring magnifications of prime areas.

>> BUENOS AIRES LAMINATED POCKET GUIDE

Wallpaper* City Guides are an exciting, stylish new concept in travel guides published by Phaidon Press and Wallpaper* magazine. Glamorous, global and affordable.Aimed at the design conscious traveller, the guides offer just the right amount of insider knowledge on the world’s most popular cities, from where to stay and what to visit, to where you should eat, shop and be seen. Ideal for a weekend break or business travel, their discreet, pocket sized format tells you everything you need to know, giving you the inside track on what can not be found anywhere else.

>> WALLPAPAPER CITY GUIDE BUENOS AIRES

Sprawling and strange, magical and melancholy, continually veering between triumph and disaster, Buenos Aires has an irresistible allure. Written entirely by residents, Time Out Buenos Aires casts an independent and critical eye on the places, people, and culture that have made this metropolis great and the contemporary trends conspiring to make it greater still. Looking past the “Paris of South America” clichés, this guide helps visitors make sense of the confusing jumble of influences that is Buenos Aires’ trademark: ...

>> TIME OUT BUENOS AIRES SHORTLIST

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Discover Argentina Feel the thunderous crash of icebergs calving into the icy waters of Lago Argentina. Explore the vast landscapes of Quebrada de Humahuaca with your own pack-carrying llama. Tango like a porteno after learning the unspoken codes of Argentina's sexiest dance. Cycle between Mendoza's legendary vineyards in search of the perfect malbec. In This Guide: A brand-new chapter on neighboring Uruguay, South America's best-kept travel secret Seven authors, 308 days of in-country research, too much beef. Color outdoors chapter shows where to fly-fish for trout and much with huskies. Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for updates and traveler insights.

>> LONELY PLANET ARGENTINA

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The Time Out Buenos Aires guidebook helps you get the best out of Argentina's charismatic capital, giving you the inside track on local culture. As well as covering visitor essentials, this guide explains the local obsessions with soccer, shrinks, steak and tango and takes you on trips to Uruguay and the Iguazú Falls.

>> TIME OUT BUENOS AIRES

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All that you dare ask for and more. Looking for a fun and vanilla night out. ? We will share with you the best discos, bars and restaurants hot spot options in the city. If you are looking for a more adventurous and alternative experience of the night scene of Buenos Aires, well this is the right article for you too. !! Saunas, Darkrooms, Cinemas and more... There is an option for active and passive travelers if you know what we mean.

>> BUENOS AIRES GAY NIGHT

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Planing for great lunch and dinner while visiting the city of Buenos Aires, then this is the right Article for you. Top 15 Restaurants you must visit before you leave town and WHY. !!! Our statistics show that a regular tourist spend an average of 10 nights in town... so there you go... you will have more than one option per night to choose from. All featured restaurants have been personally selected considering, location, style, ambience, crowd, food and wine list, price and most important their own particular attitude, which each on their own particular way feature the typical Argentinean gourmet heritage.

>> TOP 15 RESTAURANTS BUENOS AIRES

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Welcome to the neighborhood of RECOLETA, one of the main residential and commercial areas of the city of Buenos Aires. Chosen by most of the international travelers as their own headquarters from where to begin their urban experience. What is there to do and see ? Main Landmarks... Photos, Neighborhood Map and Gay Venues Listings. Art, EVITA Peron, the Flower, are only a few of the featured landmarks and icons of this area of the city. Find out more now !!!

>> OUT & ABOUT RECOLETA NEIGHBORHOOD

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New York City author Dan Allen takes you on a tour of the greatest city in the world, the multicultural mecca considered by travelers and historians alike to be the epicenter of gay civilization. With its neighborhood by neighborhood rundowns of today's hippest hotspots alongside localized LGBT history, this guide gives hand-picked, in-the-know recommendations for gay and gay-friendly lodging, dining, and activities that will illuminate the soul of New York -- not just in the known pink centers of Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, but from Downtown to Uptown, and from the Bronx to Brooklyn. Included are helpful maps, gay-friendly ratings, and valuable travel tips.

>> OUT TRAVELER NEW YORK CITY GUIDE / GAY

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Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay, what to eat, and what to drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. Some of the highlights include up-and-coming neighborhoods, an 'Architour' of landmark buildings, design centers, and the best shops to buy unique items.Wallpaper* City Guides present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The tightly-edited guides offer the best, most exciting, and the most beautiful of the featured city. The guides are expertly designed with function as a priority, and they have tabbed sections so that readers can find information easily. The guides include currency rate information, maps, and a color-coding system to help the reader navigate through different parts of the city. They are the ultimate combination of form and function.

>> WALLPAPER CITY GUIDE NEW YORK

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Every season is tourist season in New York, and why not? There’s a never-ending, always-evolving list of things to see, places to go, stuff to buy, and new restaurants to sample. Time Out New York covers it all. This exhaustive guide offers hundreds of smart, unbiased reviews of the city’s restaurants, bars, shops, clubs, museums, and sights — everything from pizza and bagels to shopping green. Up-to-date information on hours, admission prices, transportation, and methods of payment is included with each listing. It spotlights the city’s hot new neighborhoods as well as the changing scene in more established ones, with walking tour itineraries that allow visitors to explore each neighborhood at the street level. Comprehensive coverage of the city’s incomparable arts and culture scene makes this an invaluable sourcebook for tourists and residents alike.

>> TIME OUT NEW YORK

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Taking a romantic ride on Central Park's Boathouse Lake. Watching the sun set and city lights flicker from the Empire State Building. Discovering the next Warhol or Basquiat at the Dumbo Arts Center. Going underground after-hours with the beautiful people at Sullivan Room. Marketing through Chelsea - flea, farmers or the famed Chelsea Market itself. Dining on dim sum (and then some) at Chinatown's Tai Pan Bakery. Full-color pull-out map for easy navigation. Our local author recommends the best restaurants, shops, theaters, galleries and more. Hand-picked highlights, itineraries and web resources help you make the most of a short trip. New Yorkers share the love: meet a hansom driver (and his horse), a skin specialist, a contractor and a practicing Wiccan

>> LONELY PLANET NEW YORK

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This deceptively small map of New York City puts most guidebooks to shame. Pocket Pilots city map/guides are shirt-pocket sized, easy-to-fold, laminated, easy to read, and packed to bursting with useful information, including how to use/navigate the public transit system, a brief and pithy guide to the citys most popular points of interest, a neighborhood-by-neighborhood description of the city, listings of parks, cultural events, and hot spots, notes on local cuisine, and useful phrases - and, above all, a street map featuring magnifications of prime areas.

>> NEW YORK CITY LAMINATED CITY POCKET MAP

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The surveyors are 54% women and 46% men. 52% are in their 20s and 30s and 48% are 40 and over. No matter the economic climate, New York's appetite for lively dining destinations continues unabated, inspiring ever bolder ventures. For every notable closing, there's another restaurateur waiting in the wings, often joined by an expensive team of architects and designers, and ZAGAT is always there to note the changes.

>> ZAGAT NEW YORK CITY RESTAURANTS 2009

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What lies beyond the velvet ropes of New York Citys most exclusive nightspots? Whats the hottest dance club of the moment the best place to taken an important client for a drink the most romantic choice for popping the question? Youll find all that information plus much more in this Zagat Survey of New York City Nightlife from the publishers of the countrys best selling restaurant guides. Based on the opinions of thousands of in the know night crawlers this guide takes you on an insiders tour of the City That Never Sleeps rating and reviewing over 1250 establishments and offering practical indexes to help you make the right choice for any occasion. Also includes a color foldout map neighborhood maps and stick on bookmarks.

>> ZAGAT NEW YORK CITY RESTAURANTS 2009