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Buenos Aires is the best place
in the world to dance and listen to tango, that's not a secret.
This music has seduced millions of now tango fanatics around the
world which after their first dance have decided to tango on for
ever.
This sensual European-style city offers exciting urban day and night
activities and a an incredibly favorable exchange rate to shop for
a bargain prices.
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Read below to learn about our suggested Buenos Aires tours and our
useful insider's tips for having the best time in Buenos Aires!
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Images of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is certainly one of the greatest cities in
the world, one that invites the visitor to discover its sensual
secrets and history. Enjoy the best introductory private tour
to Buenos Aires learning about the main highlights of this unique
cosmopolitan city with our historian expert guides.
Buenos Aires is undoubtedly the Latin American
city that most closely resembles the large cosmopolitan and
aristocratic European cities. But beyond this, there is another
Buenos Aires, one also known for the small colored houses
of "La Boca" section and for the passionate Tango
from the streets of "San Telmo". This mixture of
the cool sophistication of a modern city with the pulsating
sensuality of Latin America makes Buenos Aires an irresistible
destination. In this tour you will visit the city's highlights,
including its history, architecture and culture.
Since you will be doing this tour with a
private vehicle and guide, you will have the freedom of enjoying
each attraction at your own pace, making all the stops you
want, enjoying personal assistance and care from our specialized
guide.
Sites: Monserrat, San Telmo, La Boca, Puerto Madero, Palermo and Recoleta.
Stops: Plaza de Mayo, Plaza Dorrego, Caminito, Rosedal and Recoleta cemetery.
Duration: 3 hours
Guide: private English speaking historian
guide
Transfer: private vehicle
Includes: transfers + historian guide
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Insider's Tip: Try to arrange
your Buenos Aires city tour for the first afternoon of the day you arrive
to Buenos Aires. This introductory tour will let you learn and understand
Buenos Aires to then make the most out of your free time in this magnificent
city.
Insider's Tip 2: If you book a
group (shared) city tour instead of a private city tour, it's strongly
suggested that you book it with a company which provides a group city
tour in only one language at the time (i.e. English). Try to avoid boring
tours where guides talk in Spanish and then repeat in English!
Insider's Tip 3: When you hire
a city tour try to research about the education background and level of
the guides the tour company uses. Higher educated guides will let you
enjoy a far more enriching and interesting tour experience.
Insider's Tip 4: When booking
a group/shared city tour make sure to ask the tour company which type
of vehicle they use for their tours. If they use a bus, definitely call
the next available company to avoid being packed in a bus with more than
30+ other tourists in a most probably low quality and not worth-it city
tour. Choose companies which use small vehicles like minibus, or vans,
as they will guarantee smaller groups and a more exclusive and higher
quality city tour experience. If you can afford it, definitely hire a
private city tour. Private tours have the best guides in town. The overall
experience in a private tour is much more intense, enriching and personalized
than in a group tour. Plus, you will save a lot of time in transfers as
you won't have to wait for the vehicle to pick up every traveler from
their hotels to start the tour. Of course private tours are much more
expensive than group tours, so if it does not fit in your travel budget
then make sure you do a good research to know which group city tour company
you want to hire for you BA city tour.
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Evita and the Peronismo
Peronismo's history
remains
not only in books or memories. It has also
left its signals in buildings, squares
and neighborhoods. This tour spots these landmarks connected
with this crucial political movement and we center on one
of its major figures: Eva Perón. Her life, her political activity,
her tragic death, the myth. Everything framed by a story that
helps to understand contemporary Argentina.
Since you will be doing this tour
with a private vehicle and guide, you will have the freedom
of enjoying each attraction at your own pace, making all the
stops you want, enjoying personal assistance and care from
our specialized guide.
Duration:
3 hours
Sites:
Plaza de Mayo, San Telmo, Congreso and Recoleta
Stops:
Former Eva Perón's Foundation, CGT, National Congress, Evita's
grave at Recoleta cemetery
Guide:
private
English speaking guide
Transfer:
private vehicle
Includes: transfers
+ historian guide
+ entrance fee for Evita Museum
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Insider's Tip: If you are interested
in politics and history this tour about the mythic Evita Perón
will be fascinating for you. When booking this tours make sure that a
stop at the CGT ("Confederación General de Trabajo")
is included. Most tours of Evita Perón include the visit to the
Evita Perón museum, plaza de mayo and Evita's grave at the Recoleta
cemetery, but not many include the visit to the CGT (which is definitely
a must-do stop to fully understand this complex political character).
Insider's Tip 2: The Evita Perón
museum is not open on Mondays, and only opens in the afternoons, not in
the morning. Bear this in mind when planning your itinerary to be able
to take this tour.Be sure to ask to the tour company if the entrance
fee to the museum and for any needed entrance is included in the tour
price to avoid any unexpected extra expense!
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Architecture in Buenos Aires
From the magnificent
early-twentieth-century buildings to the great rationalist
heritage, as well as the uniquely Argentinean "sausage"
house, the architecture of Buenos Aires is one of the most
qualified, disconcerting and suggestive in the world.
Buenos Aires
has always been, from its very beginnings, an international
port of exchange; and the multiple sources of inspiration
which have crossed cultural boundaries, together with the
constant local tendency to re-elaborate, have, in only four
centuries, consolidated a remarkable group of buildings with
great architectonic, urban and landscape value.
The architectural
highlights of Buenos Aires seen through its history are: The
impressive surrounding area of Plaza de Mayo and the few surviving
landmarks of the Colonial period; the magnificent public buildings
of the early 20th century; the best examples of Art Nouveau,
Art Deco and Rationalist architecture; the original and colorful
houses of la Boca; an Argentinean invention: the “Sausage
house” (lodgings of the European immigrants in the neighborhoods);
and the contemporary trends in architecture and urban design.
A complete introduction to the Argentinean architectural heritage.
Since you will be doing this tour
with a private vehicle and guide, you will have the freedom
of enjoying each attraction at your own pace, making all the
stops you want, enjoying personal assistance and care from
our specialized guide.
Duration:
3
hours
Sites:
Downtown, Monserrat, La Boca, Congreso,
Lavalle Square, Retiro, Palermo
Stops:
Plaza de Mayo, Caminito, Colón Theatre,
Parliament, San Martín Square
Guide:
private
English speaking guide
Transfer:
private
vehicle
Includes:
transfers
+ historian and art guide
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Insider's Tip: Request the tour
company a tour guide with an architecture degree or specialization so
you can benefit from a local art expert insight and experience to enjoy
the most out of the rich architecture styles which Buenos Aires offers
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Art in Buenos Aires
The cultural
heritage in Buenos Aires grows constantly. This tour
-guided by art historians of the University of Buenos Aires-
is a selection of the best art collections of the city. The
first stop is the institutional center, the Fine Arts National
Museum. After that you visit the new and magnificent museum
of Latin American modern and contemporary art (MALBA, Constantini
Collection). Afterward, you head to the small but excellent
Xul Solar Museum, which holds the best works of one of the
most prestigious Argentinean artists; and finally you'll enter
a gallery were you can see the last aesthetics challenges
in contemporary art.
Since you will be doing this tour
with a private vehicle and guide, you will have the freedom
of enjoying each attraction at your own pace, making all the
stops you want, enjoying personal assistance and care from
our specialized guide.
Duration: 3
hours
Places:
MNBA, MALBA, Xul Solar Museum, Gallery
(the last gallery we will visit will depend on the weekday
of the tour)
Guide:
private
English speaking guide
Transfer:
private
vehicle
Includes:
transfers
+ historian and art guide
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Insider's Tip: Request to the
tour company a tour guide who has an art degree or specialization so you
can benefit from a local architecture expert insight and experience to
enjoy the most out of the rich architecture styles which Buenos Aires
offers. If you are doing your own art explorations in Buenos Aires we
suggest include in your art route at least the following places (address,
phone numbers and websites provided, along with opening days and times):
ð MALBA
(Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires)
Address: Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415 (y San Martín de Tours)
Opens every day except Tuesdays, 12 to 8 PM.
Phone: 4-806-6500
Web: www.malba.org.ar
ð MUSEO
NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES
Avda. del Libertador 1473
Tuesday to Sunday 12:30 Pm to 7:30 Pm (opens from 9:30 AM on weekends)
4803-0802 / 4803-4691 / 4803-8814 / 4801-3390
ð MUSEO
XUL SOLAR (a must stop which is not always included in the art
itineraries)
Laprida 1212.
Monday to Friday from 2 to 8 PM.
4824-3302
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The Other South:
a Hidden Buenos Aires
A tour around
"forgotten" districts of Buenos Aires, far away
from the main tourist routes. Barracas, Nueva Pompeya, Parque
Patricios and Boedo hold amazing stories and terrific buildings:
old factories, wall paintings, secret societies, workers'
dwellings, impressive churches and traditional cafés. This
is an astonishing trip to the past & present of the popular
neighborhoods in which immigration, labor movement, tango
and popular literature play the main roles.
Since you will be doing this tour
with a private vehicle and guide, you will have the freedom
of enjoying each attraction at your own pace, making all the
stops you want, enjoying personal assistance and care from
our specialized guide.
Duration:
3 hours
Sites:
Barracas, Nueva Pompeya, Parque
Patricios and Boedo
Stops:
Lanín passage, Florentino Ameghino
Park, Basilica of Pompeya, Boedo
Guide:
private
English speaking guide
Transfer:
private
vehicle
Includes:
transfers
+ historian guide
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Insider's Tip: It's always important
to take a good introductory tour to Buenos Aires to learn about the main
highlights of this cosmopolitan city and to also become familiar with
moving around by your own in your free time. However, you will not be
a Buenos Aires expert until you take one of the "off-beaten path"
Buenos Aires tours which take you to visit the less touristic and known
"pearls" of Buenos Aires!
These sites are neither marked in tourist maps nor you will find an easy
route to visit them (or to then return to you hotel after visiting them!)
so always arrange that a knowledgeable guide takes you visit these amazing
places which most tourists miss to visit.
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The Jewish Heritage in
Buenos Aires
The Jewish
community of Buenos Aires, one of the largest in the world,
is an active one which we look forward to personally sharing
with you. On your half-day tour, we’ll provide insights
into the history of how Jewish immigrants came to settle here,
highlight events that have impacted modern-day Argentine Jewish
community life, share with you the stories of some truly beautiful
synagogues, and introduce you to the traditional Jewish Barrio,
Once.
Our tour includes a variety of sites of interest and your
host looks forward to presenting an introduction to you on
the richness of Jewish life here.
Your host will comment on the history of the Jewish immigration
to Argentina, and the subsequent growth of the community,
to one of the largest in the world.
You will visit Once— Buenos Aires’ version of the Lower East
Side, a barrio which previously bustled with yiddishkeit:
Jewish cafes, theatres, Yiddish press, Jewish schools, and
businesses. Today, while all of the above still abound, the
neighborhood has seen the influx of different ethnic business
owners, and residents, and the flavor has certainly changed
with time. In recent decades, thanks to opportunity and prosperity,
many Jewish residents took the opportunity to move up and
out, typically to Buenos Aires neighborhoods in the northern
part of town. Though Once is no longer the Yiddish powerhouse
of yesteryear, it merits a stop-off to enjoy a visit to a
beautiful Ashkenazi synagogue, constructed in the early 1920s.
You will also visit the antique IWO (institute of Yiddish studies)
and the place where the Israel Embassy stood before the terrorist
bomb attack in 1992 where there is a memorial
dedicated to remembering the lives lost in this terrorist
bombing.
Duration:
3 hours
Sites:
Retiro, Downtown, Once
Stops:
Once neighborhood, Israel’s former embassy; 2 or 3 synagogues
and IWO
Guide: private
English speaking guide
Transfer:
private
vehicle
Includes: transfers +
historian
guide specialized in Jewish history + tzedaka
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Insider's Tip: This a great tour for the Jewish travelers or
anyone interested in learning about the important Jewish community of
Buenos Aires. To make it a memorable experience there are some places
you must definitely include like the Once neighborhood, the Libertad synagogue
(first synagogue of Buenos Aires) and Israel's former embassy. If you
speak yiddish please don't miss visiting the IWO as there is an yiddish
school and lots of yiddish literature to appreciate there.
Insider's Tip 2: Ask your tour
company whether you need to take with you or provide your passport information
(some places like the AMIA or some synagogues will require your passport
and background information to arrange a visit). Security in the Jewish
institutions is very strict so don't take it personal or be disappointed
if for example you are not allowed to get in when visiting the AMIA or
some synagogues. To guarantee that you will be allowed to enter you must
provide beforehand the security information that each institution request.
Insider's Tip 3: The Argentinean
Jewish community is in need of any help that you can provide. Every institution
will expect for you voluntary tzedaka or contribution to help them serve
the local community needs.
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Estancia
Santa Susana
Argentine folklore
"Sortija" game
The "boleadoras"
Old Gaucho bar
Gaucho
Antique bedroom
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Gaucho
Traditions & Folklore of the Pampas
Enjoy a full
day learning the aspects of the Gaucho's life in an ideal
opportunity to sample the traditional Argentine country
life the way it is in
the natural surroundings of the Pampas. You will depart from
the hotel towards Cardales neighborhood, only 57 miles (90
km) from downtown Buenos Aires, to visit Santa Susana Estancia
("estancias"
are a kind of ranch). Santa Susana’s
3000 acres (1200 hectares) are devoted mainly to agriculture
and cattle breeding.
Upon arrival a welcome
drink with empanadas (meat pies) will be served at the Pulpería (Ranch's
Pub or Gaucho bar). Later, feast on a typical Argentine barbecue accompanied
by Argentine wine. Argentina is famous for it's beef. Millions of Angus
and Hereford cattle graze on the grasses of the Pampas, and the result
is beef of exceptional flavor, especially when grilled slowly over coals.
As you finish your lunch, enjoy a show with folk and tango music and dances.
The field day culminates
with an exhibition and mix-up of matched-together horse herds (tropillas),
and the autochthonous horseback sport called "carreras de sortijas"
(ring-races), all of which show the remarkable dominion exerted by the
gaucho upon his horses, where they put on an exhibition of bold, skillful
horsemanship.
Late in the afternoon,
a snack consisting of home made pastries, tea and
"mate" (an typical argentine
drink made of herbs) will be served. Horses and carriages are available
for rides. The strolls in typical one-horse carriages called "sulkies",
or just riding on horse-back, will show the visitors the enchantment of
the Argentine land, the beautiful landscape, its growing crops, and let
them feel the incomparable wild aroma in the air.
The
Gaucho
In the last century,
they were nomadic horsemen
and cowhand, roaming the Argentine grasslands, who hunted and traded cattle.
The gaucho's weapons are the
lasso, knife, and boleadoras (or bolas), a device made of leather cords
and three stones that is thrown
at the legs of an animal to entwine and immobilize it.
"The Gauchos,
or countrymen, are very superior to those who reside in the towns. The
Gaucho is invariably most obliging, polite, and hospitable: I did not
meet with even one instant of rudeness or inhospitality. He is modest,
both respecting himself and country, but at the same time a spirited,
bold fellow..."
Charles
Darwin
IMPORTANT: This
is a nice tour but its only drawback is that it is done by
very large groups (in cruises season sometimes more than 600
people do this tour every day). Therefore, if you prefer more
exclusive tours we suggest requesting one of our specialized
private tours in Buenos Aires.
Duration:
full day
Guide:
shared English/Spanish speaking guide
Transfer:
shared vehicle
Includes:
transfers + Lunch with beverages and wine
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Insider's Tip: In this and any
other group tour it is very important that you don't get delayed to enjoy
the most out of the activities offered in this tour with a minimum waiting
time. For example, after arriving at the estancia and getting the "empanada"
(mini meat pie) who straight to the horses stable before touring around
the estancia. This way you will have a much shorter waiting time for your
horseback riding than if you arrive last to the queue. The same advice
works for the gaucho and horsemanship exhibitions.
Insider's Tip 2: During lunch
you will be served some "parrilla" or grill delicatessen like
a black and thick sausage called "morcilla" or "mollejas",
"chinchulines", etc. Our advice is that no matter if you like
how these stuff looks, get a piece of each on your plate and try it, hopefully
you will write us to thank us about this "tasty" advice!
Insider's Tip 3: Most
often, tour transfers are done in air conditioned vehicles which tend
to be a bit too cold. Therefore, a sweater or pullover always comes in
handy. We suggest always carrying one with you, hence avoiding the risk
of catching a cold because of these sudden changes in temperatures.
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Folklore musician
Folklore musician with a charango
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A
Delightful and Authentic
Tango Evening at La Ventana We
invite you to experience an evening of passion, charm, beauty and sensuality;
a night of Tango at La Ventana. La Ventana
is one of the first-class tango places of Buenos Aires, and we consider it the
best tango show in town. La Ventana is located in the very heart of San Telmo
neighborhood, in an impressive historic building. Its interior architectural style
is absolutely preserved, and creates the ideal setting for an unique experience:
35 artists for each show including: 2 tango orchestras, 10 tango dancers, 2 singers,
and a colorful folklore band. The tango
show at La Ventana is an amazing journey to the core of tango history, as you
will see on stage the different and authentic tango styles each with its particular
music, dancing style, and costumes. You
will have the honor of listening to the live music of one of the best tango orchestras
ever: "La Gran Orquesta de Juan D'Arienzo" directed by the Maestro Carlos Lazzari.
Not only will you hear some of the best tango musicians alive, but also you will
enjoy seeing some of the best tango dancers and singers on stage. To
enrich this show experience La Ventana has also included a short but very colorful
Argentine folklore show with many talented folklore musicians that we are sure
you will also enjoy a lot. The dinner menu
consists of several traditional and international dishes, accompanied with excellent
argentine wines. Don't expect to enjoy the same top-notch meal you will enjoy
in a first-class restaurant in BA, but at La Ventana the food and wine are very
good. To see the dinner menu please click
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(bear in mind that the menu is changed twice a year so this might not be the exact
menu you will have on the night of your tango dinner and show). Duration:
3 hours - show duration: 1 hour and a half
Transfer: group transfer Includes: transfers
+ dinner with beverages and wine
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a place for your tango show make sure to: 1.
Ask how big is the place where the show is performed. Try to choose places which
are big enough to provide comfort, but small enough to provide an exclusive and
close range experience. 2. Try to talk with
friends or people who have already visited Buenos Aires or seek expert advice
to know the quality of the musicians (music has to be live and performed by an
orchestra, be sure to check on this), quality of singers, quality of dancers,
and last but not least, quality of the food if you are also attending a dinner
before the show. Insider's
Tip 2: Make sure to arrange to go a dinner and tango show, not only a
tango show. The price difference between a tango show Vs a tango show with dinner
is very small and the quality of the food, if a good place is chosen, is quite
good (not as excellent as in a first-class restaurant). But most important, if
you arrange to only assist the tango show and not to the dinner before the show,
you will have the worst or just the "leftover" locations not taken by
the people who came early for dinner before the show.
When asking about the
price of the dinner and tango show be sure to ask if beverages are included and
if not which is their price to guarantee you won't be ripped-off by a too high
extra-cost for the beverages during dinner. Insider's
Tip 3: Going to a milonga (a tango dance club) is an absolutely different
experience than going to a professional tango show, but they are both complementary.
To assist to a milonga (which is something not easy to safely arrange without
expert advice) is an opportunity not only to see tango dancers but to personally
dance tango (which you can't do at a tango show, where you just listen and watch).
Milongas can be attended by people willing to dance tango but also by people
who want to see tango in a spontaneous (not choreographed) and improvised setting.
In a milonga you can see a lot of beginners, some intermediates, sometimes a few
tango maestros because the top tango maestro are dancing and earning their living
in the professional tango shows! Thus, when you go a professional tango show you
will only see the best tango dancers, musicians and singers which Argentina has
to offer, most of them considered the best tango maestros in the world. Plus,
in a proffesional tango show you will enjoy live music and a top-notch orchestra
while most milongas only play recorded music. Most probably you won't listen to
live tango singers in a Milonga (which is a very nice part of tango) and you won't
definitely see the beautiful, expensive and creative tango costumes that professional
dancers wear on the shows to let you enjoy not only the tango music but the tango
style. In addition, some professional tango shows are set up to show you the different
varieties of tango-styles (salon-style tango, milonguero-style tango, club-style
tango, canyengue-tango, fantasia-style tango, etc) that you won't see all in a
milonga. Tango shows also display the different types of tango costumes (as varied
as the tango dancing styles) which are very nice (and sensual!) to see.
Some
people don't go to tango shows as they say they are "only for tourists"
and that's absolutely incorrect. Professional tango shows in Buenos Aires are
done for people who want to enjoy a top-notch professional tango experience, most
probably the best tango show they will see in their lives.
So you definitely
have to go to a tango show and if you are a tango lover then make sure to also
go to a milonga (or more than one as each milonga offers different tango experiences).
You can also take some private tango lessons to show your first tango steps when
going to a milonga (or to show off with your friends and relatives at home!). Need
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Navigation at the Tigre
Delta - The Third Largest Delta in the World -
At only 19 miles (30 km) north of Buenos Aires downtown
there is an extraordinary ecological area: the Paraná
River's Delta, also known as the Tigre Delta.
The Paraná River Delta is a 14,000 square kilometer
(8750 square miles) area where thousands of islands and inlets,
water channels, rivers and backwaters form a sub-tropical
wonderland about twenty miles northeast of Buenos Aires. The
Paraná is South America's second longest river, after
the Amazon river in Brazil.
This day tours starts in our tour bus heading for Olivos
neighborhood, from where you start the journey to Tigre neighborhood
in the "Tren de la Costa" (Coastline Train), a beautiful
train which connects the most elegant residential areas facing
the Rio de la Plata (Silver River). This train ride
takes 30 minutes and it allows us to see the Northern zone
in a different way, always bordering the Río de
la Plata.
You make a stop at San Isidro station before arriving to the
Delta station where you board a modern panoramic catamaran
boat to discover the wonders of the Delta of the Parana River
and thousands of islands and islets crisscrossed by rivers
and brooks.
This delta is the third in the world as regards size, following
the famous Nile River Delta (in Africa) and the Amazonas River
Delta (in the North of Latin America). Nevertheless, its 27
thousand square kilometers (17 square miles) have been hardly
explored.
Its most outstanding flora is located in the third section
of Tigre and is made up by poplars, ceibos, rush, wicker,
cane and willows, from which wood is extracted. In the spring,
the azaleas, honeysuckles, hydrangeas, wisterias and orchids
delight the sight and the sense of smell of tourists approaching
the river.
After this delightful navigation you return to your hotel.
Duration: 5 hours
Guide: shared English/Spanish
speaking guide
Transfer: shared vehicle, train and catamaran
Includes: transfers, train ride, boat ride and guide
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Tip: Most often, tour transfers are done in air conditioned
vehicles which tend to be a bit too cold. Therefore, a sweater or pullover
always comes in handy. We suggest always carrying one with you, hence
avoiding the risk of catching a cold because of these sudden changes in
temperatures.
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