Argentina

Geographically, Las Pampas is like the great plains of the US -generally flat, grassy, and used for farming and grazing. Life there is usually rural (duh) and nothing like the big city. Best thing is to look at the stars on a clear night. You can see the arm of the Milky Way so clearly!

I used to live in Tucumán, on the eastern edge of the Andes. It's fairly large city. Lots of history there. One thing that used to be true (can't say if it still is) is that you know the minute you exit a city or town. Instant countryside. And outside of the top ten big cities, most places are really tiny -more like villages. It's my experience that the people of Argentina are friendly everywhere you go. They enjoy good food -Lots of great Italian and Spanish cooking. Really great ice cream.

Will you be grading us on this Dr. Cooper?

Buenos Aires is like Manhattan surrounded by L.A.

Buenos Aires is more like a less expensive Manhattan surrounded by Detroit - a giant slumbelt of suburbs.

Jujuy in the far northwest geographically resembles Arizona. Like Arizona, it also has a high percentage of Amerindians at least relative to the population as a whole. Argentina's settlers massacred most of its natives and now Europeans and their descendants make up almost the entire population.

I really want to go to Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. Exploring urban and wild Argentina is definitely a big bucket list item.

Read about the Welsh immigrants in Patagonia. Interesting.

Such a waste of a country. Shame the Spanish colonized and not the British.

I think all the former Nazis live just outside of Buenos Aires.

The only country to regress from developed to developing in modern history.

(Guess who's probably next.)