1. Get South 2013: Cover & Introduction - 16º edition

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* CONTENTS * 2478912 13 15 17 18 19 20 30 31 32 33 34 37 38 40 41 42 43 45 46 47 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 66 67 69 70 71 72 73 -

74 - San Carlos de Bariloche 77 - El Bolsón 80 - Esquel 81 - Las Grutas 83 - Puerto Madryn 85 - Puerto Pirámides 86 - El Chaltén 87 - El Calafate 92 - Puerto San Julián 93 - Ushuaia 96 - CHILE 97 - Useful information/Distance chart 98 - Arica 99 - Putre 100 - Iquique 102 - San Pedro de Atacama 105 - La Serena 106 - Elqui Valley 107 - Viña del Mar 108 - Valparaíso 111 - Santiago 116 - Pichilemu 117 - Pucón 119 - Valdivia 121 - Puerto Varas 124 - Puerto Montt 126 - Chiloé Island - Ancud 128 - Chiloé Island - Castro 132 - Chaitén 133 - Futaleufú 135 - Puyuhuapi 136 - Coyhaique & Puerto Aysén 139 - Villa Cerro Castillo 140 - Puerto Río Tranquilo 142 - Puerto Guadal & Chile Chico 144 - Cochrane & Caleta Tortel 145 - Puerto Natales 148 - Punta Arenas 149 - Puerto Williams 151 - Glossary 152 - Acknowledgements

How to use this guidebok Volunteering URUGUAY Colonia del Sacramento Montevideo Punta del Este La Paloma & La Pedrera Cabo Polonio & Valizas Punta del Diablo ARGENTINA Useful information/Distance chart Buenos Aires Tigre CENTRE REGION La Plata Mar del Plata Córdoba LITORAL REGION Rosario Esteros del Iberá Posadas San Ignacio Puerto Iguazú Asunción - Paraguay CUYO REGION Mendoza San Rafael Malargüe NORTH REGION San Miguel de Tucumán Tafí del Valle Amaicha del Valle Cafayate Salta Purmamarca Tilcara Humahuaca Iruya La Quiaca PATAGONIA REGION Neuquén 1

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** Volunteering ** Interested in making a societal impact? South America offers a number of charitable organizations that need YOUR help!

A few hours a week can enrich your experience abroad and can make a world of difference!

Here are only a few of many organizations operating: ARGENTINA • Fundación Argentina de Etoecología (www.etoecologia.org.ar) raises environmental awareness through direct action such as forestation, ground imporvement, water purification and education on environmental issues. You can also volunteer with them to help children and women on the street.

• Hogar Amparo Maternal (www.amparomaternal.com.ar) works with young mothers and their children to create a place to stay and organize their daily tasks.

• Banco de Alimentos (www.bancodealimentos.org.ar) fights hunger and malnutrition by providing soup kitchens and raising awareness.

• Voluntario Global (www.voluntarioglobal.com.ar) runs educational projects in Buenos Aires, northern Argentina, Bariloche and Iguazu.

• South American Explorers (www.saexplorers.org) has a good database of volunteer opportunities across South America for eager travellers.

CHILE • Voluntarios de la Esperanza (www.ve-global.org) works to provide shelters, orphanages and schools in Santiago.

• Agrupacion Medio Ambiental Torres del Paine (www.amatorresdelpaine.org) does conservation work and environmental education in the national park.

• Un Techo para Chile (www.untechoparachile.cl) works on reconstruction of homes for those in Southern Chile whose homes were devastated by earthquakes.

URUGUAY • Karumbe (www.karumbe.org) is a volunteer project that monitors and conserves sea turtles in coastal Uruguay.

Please recycle me!!

If you can bear without taking me home, leave me for one of your friends!

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** Don’t leave without trying these ** Argentina, Chile and Uruguay have some national dishes and drinks that you shouldn’t miss. Almost all of them appear in each country and beyond being tasty, they are a key part of the culture. Try them all !!

Asado/Parrilla

Is in essence a grilled barbecue, consisting of various cuts of meat. A typical asado* may have an assortment of various cuts of steak, chicken, morcilla (blood sausage/black pudding), chorizo (sausage), mollejas (sweetbreads), riĂąones (kidneys), and chinchulines (intestines).

Chivito

This Uruguayan sandwich consists primarily of a thin slice of steak, with mayonnaise, black or green olives, cheese, tomatoes and sometimes also bacon, fried or hardboiled eggs and ham. Normally served in a bun with a huge stack of French Fries! The Chilean version is barros luco and in Argentina, the lomito.

Empanada

Is a tasty stuffed pastry that can have a wide range of fillings, such as beef, chicken, seafood, vegetables, ham and cheese, sweet corn, onion, boiled egg, olives, raisins and more. It can be baked or fried.

Mate

Is a popular traditional infusion made with the leaves of the yerba plant. Once dry and processed, the leaves are put into a gourd called mate (made of wood or other materials) and hot water is poured over it. The infusion is sipped through a bombilla (a filtered metal straw).

Dulce de leche

Dulce de Leche is the ultimate for anyone with a sweet tooth. Made from slow cooked condensed milk, it is rich, creamy and perfectly addictive! Spread it on toast in the morning, try it stuffed in pastries, eat it in the local alfajors or just eat it straight from the jar! In Chile it is called manjar.

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