Gay vacations
Mendoza: The gay culinary experience
by Cristian on Apr.05, 2010, under Gay vacations
Gay tour to Mendoza
Planning a tour to Mendoza?
You can not miss the opportunity to enjoy, live and be excited with breathtaking landscapes and unforgettable moments! Visit Mendoza, a remarkable gay place to visit with friends.
Arrival Day. Your flight arrives at the Mendoza International Airport and you will be greeted by your host just outside the secure area, then driven by private car to an exclusive Country Inn, located in Chacras de Coria, an upscale country suburb of Mendoza City and the center of the original wine country… just a short drive from the major wineries of Maipu and Lujan de Cuyo.
The tour begins with an afternoon departure from the hotel to see the city of Mendoza. At night we will have a special dinner at one of Mendoza’s top restaurants Francis Mallman 1884, which the British newspapers The Times and The Daily Telegraph has rated the seventh-best restaurant in the world.
Day 2
After breakfast explore the Lujan de Cuyo district, the cradle of Argentina´s wine renascence, which put Argentina back on the wine map with its stunning Malbec.
The tour starts at Bodega Catena Zapata. Besides the striking, Mayan-pyramid inspired architecture, Catena Zapata offers unparalleled views of the Andes and the surrounding vineyards. The winery symbolizes a family’s pride in its roots and a keen desire to show to the world the uniqueness of Mendoza as a wine-producing region.
The next stop is Bodega Finca Decero, a new winery with a superb view of the Andes mountain range. The privileged characteristics of the terroir and the weather conditions of the area allow the cultivation of outstanding red grapes. After the tour and tasting have an exclusive gourmet lunch at Ruca Malen, enjoying its delicious cuisine as well as a vertical wine tasting. Ruca Malén works with the key concept of QUALITY, in order to produce wines of style, elegance, and distinction.
The tour ends with a visit to the Bodega Tapiz, owned years ago by Jess Jackson and his Kendall-Jackson wine group. Carolina Fuller is a charming Anglo-Argentine guide with a great passion, expertise and infectious enthusiasm for wine making. She will show us the vineyards and explain planting, pruning and harvesting techniques, encouraging tastings at every stage of the process, from grapes to bottle. Tapiz usually includes a horseback ride through the vineyard !
We´ll have dinner at Club Tapiz, located on an estate built in 1890 and surrounded by vineyards, which is regarded as one of Mendoza´s best restaurants.
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Gay-Exclusive Patagonian Odyssey: last of 2009
by Cristian on Nov.09, 2009, under Gay vacations
Take a 16- daytrip in November 17 to a Gay-Exclusive Patagonian Odyssey!
- Day 1: Indigo Hotel (Puerto Natales, Chile)
- Day 2: Indigo Hotel (Puerto Natales, Chile)
- Day 3: El Quijote Hotel (El Calafate, Argentina)
- Day 4: El Paraiso Hosteria (El Chalten, Argentina)
- Day 5: El Paraiso Hosteria (El Chalten, Argentina)
- Day 6: La Posada Inn (Lago Posada, Argentina)
- Day 7: Terra Luna Lodge (Puerto Guadal, Lake General Carrera, Chile)
- Day 8: Terra Luna Lodge (Puerto Guadal, Lake General Carrera, Chile)
- Day 9: Hotel El Reloj (Coyhaique, Chile)
- Day 10: Puyuhuapi Lodge & Spa (Glacier Sound, near Puyuhuapi, Chile)
- Day 11: Puyuhuapi Lodge & Spa (Glacier Sound, near Puyuhuapi, Chile)
- Day 12: La Casona Bed & Breakfast (Futaleufu, Chile)
- Day 13: Sol del Nahuel Hotel (Bariloche , Argentina)
- Day 14: Sol del Nahuel Hotel (Bariloche, Argentina)
- Day 15: Cabanas del Lago (Puerto Varas, Chile)
- Day 16: This morning you will be transferred to Puerto Montt either for your flight back to Santiago or to continue your vacation. We hope you had a wonderful vacation, thank you so much for your business, and please tell your friends about your Odyssey!
Includes:
* Internal airfare from Santiago,
* Transfers & transportation throughout tour,
* All meals and snacks, including bottled water,
* Lodging in 3 to 4-star gay-friendly accommodations,
* Daily soft adventure activities, including trekking, horseback riding, rafting, ice-trekking, visits to museums, penguin colonies, etc.,
* All taxes and park entrance fees,
* Bilingual (Spanish-English) Gay Tour Hosts
Also you can book for 2010 this Gay-Exclusive Patagonian Odyssey: January 16 - February 1 - February 27 - March 15
Great Opportunity, Check it out now!!! 
Tourism in Salta, Argentina
by Cristian on Sep.16, 2009, under Gay vacations
Tourism in Salta, Argentina
Salta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. The weather in Salta is warm and dry. January and February are the months with greatest rainfall.
Nicknamed Salta la Linda (”Salta the Fair”), it has become a major tourist destination due to its old, colonial architecture and the natural scenery of the valleys westward. Attractions in the city proper include the 18th century Cabildo, the neo-classical style Cathedral, and the July 9 central square. The city’s museums exhibit a wide range of artifacts and art work from the native civilations that flourished in the area (Salta is located in the Southernmost region of what was the Inca empire, belonging to the Collasuyu, one of the four areas the empire was divided until the Spanish conquest), as well as from the 16th century Spanish conquest and the colonial and post-colonial periods. Salta is also the starting point of the “Train to the Clouds” (Tren a las nubes), and on the way to red-soiled Cafayate, as well as to other nearby tourist destinations.
Tourism in Salta, Argentina
The city center features a number of impressive buildings dating back to the 18th and 19th and early 20th centuries. Clockwise around the Ninth of July Square are the neoclassical Cathedral, the French style Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cabildo (in former times, the city’s town hall, nowadays a historical museum) and the Museum of High Mountain Archeology, which houses artifacts from the Inca civilization including the magnifically preserved bodies of three Inca children.
Within walking distance of the 9th July Square are the impressive Saint Francis Church and the city’s two pedestrian streets: Alberdi and Florida. The three blocks in Balcarce street closest to the train station are now the center of night life in Salta, with restaurants, pubs and cafés on both sidewalks and concerts every night.
Rising imposingly in the east is San Bernardo Hill. Its summit, from which visitors can get an awe-inspiring view of the city and the entire valley, can be reached by car, cable car or stairway.
Visit Salta all the year round! See you
Meet the Iguazú Falls
by Cristian on Aug.14, 2009, under Argentina Gay Clubs, Gay Travel Argentina, Gay vacations, Iguazu falls tours
Iguazu Falls from Argentina
Iguazú Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazú River located on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu.
The falls can be reached from the two main towns on either side of the falls: Puerto Iguazú in the Argentine province of Misiones, and Foz do Iguaçu in the Brazilian state of Paraná as well as from Ciudad del Este (Paraguay) on the other side of the Parana river from Foz do Iguaçu. The falls are shared by the Iguazú National Park (Argentina) and Iguaçu National Park (Brazil). These parks were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984 and 1986, respectively.
Iguazu Falls tours
There are more than 270 falls in an area where cliffs and islets are scattered in a half moon. The falls that can be visited are: Salto Floriano, Salto Deodoro, Salto Benjamín Constant, Salto Unión, Salto Escondido, Salto Mitre, Salto Belgrano, Salto Rivadavia, Salto Tres Mosqueteros, Salto Dos Mosqueteros, Salto San Martín, Salto Adán y Eva, Salto Bozzetti, Salto Ramirez, Salto Chico, Salto Dos Hermanos and Salto Alvar Nuñez.
The fall area provides opportunities for water sports and rock climbing.
Meet the Iguazú Falls in Misiones, Argentina!
Visit the Calafate in Patagonia Argentina
by Cristian on Aug.06, 2009, under Gay Travel Argentina, Gay vacations, gay patagonia
The Perito Moreno Glacier
One of the most interesting glaciers of the world is The Perito Moreno in Argentina. This famous glacier is located in a small town called El Calafate in the southwest of Santa Cruz Province (Patagonia).
Its name comes from a little bush with yellow flowers very common in Patagonia, with dark blue berries: the “calafate”. According to tradition, whoever eats calafate will return for more.
El Calafate is an important tourist destination as the hub to visit different parts of the Los Glaciares National Park, including the Perito Moreno Glacier (one of the most visited in the world) and the Cerro Chaltén and Cerro Torre.
The Upsala Glacier
El Calafate presents a dry climate, with an average maximum temperature of 19ºC, and an average minimum of -2º in winter. The length of the day changes according to season. In summer, the sun rises at 5.30am and sets at 11pm. In winter the day is shorter as there are only 8 hours of daylight.
If you take a trip to Calafate you could spend a gorgelous vacation doing a lot of thing as well as ice trakking (walking on this impressive ice mass), or sailing around the glacier walls.
Also we recomended you to visit the Speghazzini and the Upsala glaciers.
At El Calafate you will find yourself at the gateway to the majestic world of glaciers. Come to Argentina and enjoy El Calafate and the Perito Moreno glacier!
Argentina’s Patagonia, gay vacations
by argentina gay on Jul.08, 2009, under Gay Travel Argentina, Gay vacations, gay patagonia
We invite you to get to know the wonderful Argentine Patagonia, starting in Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world, with its fantastic view of the south seas as well as its unique Fagnano and Escondido Lakes, its lengas forest, and the End of the World Prison. If you want to, you can also ride the End of the World Train.
In this trip we will visit Calafate, the city where we will lodge to be able to visit one of the most impressive world’s wonders: the Perito Moreno Glacier. As well as the excursion we offer you, you can chose minitrekking on this ice mass and sailing round the glacier’s walls.
As always, our folks from Buenos Aires Gay Travel have chosen the hotels we relieve are the most significant in their category: Del Glaciar Hotel, an excellent five-star hotel overlooking the Martial Glacier, together with the classic Los Álamos Hotel, a symbol of El Calafate city.
At Buenos Aires Gay Travel website you’ll find package details. Hurry! Next departure is Aug 14!
Gay vacations: june, july in Argentina
by argentina gay on Jul.01, 2009, under Gay Buenos Aires, Gay Travel Argentina, Gay vacations
Ushuaia, Argentina
Summer is coming, vacation time! Buenos Aires’ winter (june, july) has a lot of gay options to offer the best choice to your gay vacation.
The Tango Experience: We invite you to enjoy a unique Tango gay experience at Abasto Plaza Hotel. Check this gay vacation option here
Unforgettable week at Axel Hotel Buenos Aires: Enjoy a week at the Axel Hotel Buenos Aires, with private and personalized services. Check this gay vacation option here
Super Budget Buenos Aires: Enjoy 3 nights at wonderful Buenos Aires, for a spectacular price. Check this gay vacation option here
Check out this Argentina gay vacations options also:
Mar del Plata Gay Escape - 3 days / 2 nights: Take a break and enjoy wonderful days in Mar del Plata, staying at a gay friendly hotel. Check this gay vacation option here
Wonderful San Carlos de Bariloche: San Carlos de Bariloche is arguably the most famous ski resort area in the Patagonia, located on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains, 1000 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. Check this gay vacation option here. Don’t forget the Bariloche 2009 gay ski week.
Ushuaia and Tierra del Fuego (3 nights): The most southern view in the World, Ushuaia, iced mountains, silent lakes, visit to the Tierra del Fuego National Park… holidays in an exceptionally good destination. Check this gay vacation option here.
Iguazú Falls, warm destination (3 nights): You will visit the magnificent and warm Misionera jungle and the Iguazú Falls, with its unforgettable waterfalls that will make this tour a trip to remember. Check this gay vacation option here.
