Work and Travel in Argentina: Destination

Interestingly, Argentina takes its name from the Latin word for silver — ‘argentum’. It was silver that the Spanish were searching for in this new land. For many, Argentina is associated with football and Buenos Aires — a city with a tango flavor, often called the most European city in the Americas. But it’s also a country of unique natural wonders.
Here you’ll find the mountains of Patagonia (it was from these parts that the crew of the two-masted yacht Duncan set off on their globe-trotting voyage in search of Captain Grant along the 37th parallel). There’s Ischigualasto Park, known as Argentina’s Moon Valley. And the famous Valdés Peninsula. The city of Córdoba, where program participants study and work, is Argentina’s second-largest city, with a population of 1.2 million.

Streets with the faint, sweet taste of memory, streets where the memory of a future called Hope wanders, inseparable, indelible streets of my love.

Jorge Luis Borges on Buenos Aires