Argentina

March 4th to 6th 2009

This visit to Argentina was part of a preparation to a Cruise from Ushuaia to Cape Town visiting Antarctica.

The first place visited was Buenos Aires.  The first afternoon we made a tour of the city including a visit to La Recoleta cemetery to see the tomb of Eva Peron.  The following morning I took myself off to an area behind the old docks warehouses to see wildlife.

In the afternoon I joined a boat trip around the Parana Delta and the town of Tigre

In the evening we all visited a very polished Dinner and Tango Show at La Ventana Tango House.

Early on the sixth of March we flew to Ushuaia to board the ship Minerva.

See below for a view of some of the photos.

 

 

For the original Flikr page please link to Argentina 2009.

 

 

 

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Wildlife of Buenos Aires

 

 

Near Waterfront

Black and White Swallow

Blue and White Swallow

 

Crested Caracara

 

Crested Caracara

 

Chalk-browed Mockingbird

 

Rufous Horhero

 

Chalk-browed Mockingbird

 

Rufous Horhero

 

Glittering-bellied Emerald

Hummingbird

Glittering-bellied Emerald

Hummingbird

Glittering-bellied Emerald

Hummingbird

Great Kiskadee

 

Grassland Sparrow

 

Green-barred Woodpecker

 

Green-barred Woodpecker

 

Green-barred Woodpecker

 

Masked Yellowthroat

 

Picazuro Pigeon

 

Red-crested Cardinal

 

Picazuro Pigeon

 

Rufous-bellied Thrush

 

Rufous-bellied Thrush

 

Rufous-collared Sparrow

 

Unicoloured Blackbird

 

Rufous-collared Sparrow

 

Parana Delta

Olivacerous Cormorant

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ushuaia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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