Travel South America | Argentina – Crossing Andes – Travel – Jim Rogers World Adventure

Leading economic expert Jim Rogers traveled to 150 countries over 150000 miles in three years – follow his adventures here on FentonReport. In this video Jim and Paige cross the Andes to Argentina. Copyright Jim Rogers – provided as a special contribution to The Fenton Report. www.fentonreport.com Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city. It is the second largest country in South America by land area, and eighth in the world. Its continental area is 2766890 km² (1068302 sq mi), between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. Argentina borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south. Argentina also claimed 969464 km² (374312 sq mi) of Antarctica, known as Argentine Antarctica, overlapping other claims made by Chile (Chilean Antarctic Territory) and the United Kingdom (British Antarctic Territory); all such claims have been suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1951. Argentina is the world’s eighth-largest nation by area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous. Argentina has the second highest Human Development Index level and the third highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America. Argentina’s nominal GDP is the 31st largest in the world; but when …
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Question by messiejessie29: What is the best way for a college student on a budget to travel around South America?
I’m a college student from Boston who is looking to travel to and around South America next summer with a couple of friends for 3 weeks during the month of August. My friends and I are wondering what the cheapest way to travel there is, which countries would be the cheapest to visit, and what’s the best way to get around between countries? Can anyone help us with this? We definitely could use some advice. Thank you!

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Answer by dj
Some years ago I spent about six months travelling around South America. I started by arriving by ship in Rio de Janiero , Brasil then went to Bolivia , Argentina , Uruguay then back to Argentina and flew out from Buenos Aires. During those six months I travelled either by bus train or boat and only flew when I left. There is a good network of affordable buses all over South America and also regular passenger boats going up and down rivers. I travelled by boat all the way up the Amazon and other rivers from the mouth of the Amazon into Bolivia sleeping on the deck alongside the locals. In Brazil Portuguese is spoken but everywhere else it is Spanish , you can just get by with English but it isn’t easy , so learn some Spanish if you don’t have it already. I stayed in cheap hotels which you find in every town usually near the bus station but otherwise ask the locals where they are. Go to a book shop now and check our different guide books and choose one that you like. I didn’t use a guide book but it would have been easier if I had. Speak to a Doctor or Pharmacist about malaria and other disease prevention and follow his advice , South America is thick with mossies

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