Plate I01
Obelisco, the centre of a city that does not sleep.
Buenos Aires, 6:45 AM
Buenos Aires, el centro
Preface, on the country that wears European tailoring at the bottom of America
Argentina is the southernmost country that still feels European before it feels Latin. Buenos Aires is Paris on a Sunday afternoon. With parrillas. Mendoza is the western foothills of the Andes with Malbec on every hill. Three days for the city, two for the wine country, three for Patagonia or the falls when you have ten nights. Best between October and April. Late spring through autumn, with Patagonia clearest in January-March.
Every journey in Argentina, currently
4 journeys in Argentina.
Peru + Argentina + Brazil, 11N/12DSouth American Delight: Peru + Argentina + Brazil
Argentina, 13N/14DSouth American Delight: Buenos Aires + Patagonia + Iguazu
Brazil + Argentina + Chile + Peru, 13N/14DStunning South America: Rio + Iguassu + BA + Santiago + Lima + Cusco + Puno
Brazil + Argentina, 2N/3DSplendid South America: Iguassu Falls Both Sides
Interlude, Plates from the field
Things we
have seen.
Eight plates from the studio's last three years. San Telmo on a Sunday, a Mendoza wine morning, the Perito Moreno calving at noon.
Eight plates, drag, swipe, or use the arrows
Colophon
A small note
on how we work.
Tibro has been routing Argentina since 2017. Eight years of Buenos Aires nights, Mendoza wine mornings, Calafate glacier afternoons, and the Argentina-Brazil ten-night arcs that travellers come back wanting to do the other way around.
We work with a Buenos-Aires-based partner desk run by Florencia (originally a Teatro Colón backstage coordinator) and a Mendoza wine-country coordinator who has driven our travellers to the same three estates by harvest week since 2018.
Hotels in Buenos Aires are a barrio problem. Recoleta for the first time, Palermo for the second, Puerto Madero for the long-stay. We hold rooms at four properties year-round and pick by traveller.
Four routes is what we currently maintain. The Buenos-Aires-and-Mendoza seven-night is the most-requested; we route the wine days AFTER the city because arriving at a Mendoza estate with porteño manners reads well to the winemakers.
8Years of routing Argentina
4Routes, none repeated
11 / 24Hours we tend to reply within
Warmly,
The Tibro studio , Mumbai, Buenos Aires (partner), Mendoza (wine liaison)
Letters received
From the studio's folder
What they wrote
when they got home.
Three letters from the last twelve months.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Buenos Aires & Mendoza, seven nights, November 2024
Three Buenos Aires nights, three Mendoza, one back in BA. Florencia walked us through San Telmo on a Sunday morning and the Sunday antique fair felt like our own neighbourhood. The Mendoza wine days were the studio's three-estate sequence. Younger Malbec on day one, the cult producers on day two, the historic on day three. The progression was the point.
P. & K. IyerBengaluru, first Argentina trip
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Patagonia south, ten nights, February 2024
Buenos Aires for three, El Calafate for four for Perito Moreno, Ushuaia for two for the end-of-the-world. The Perito Moreno walking platform Tibro had us on at six AM was almost empty and we watched a calving alone. The Ushuaia Beagle Channel boat the studio routed was a small-group sailboat instead of a tourist catamaran. That was the difference.
A. & R. KrishnanChennai, thirtieth anniversary
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Argentina & Brazil, twelve nights, October 2024
Buenos Aires, Iguazú from the Argentine side, Rio. The Iguazú handover from the Argentine to the Brazilian side was the part Tibro made invisible. Florencia's coordinator at Foz had us on the boat under the Devil's Throat by nine in the morning. The continent of South America felt like one trip, not two countries stapled together.
M. & N. BhattacharyaKolkata, returning, second South-America trip
4.91 / 5Average from 82 returned travellers
37%Travel with us a second time
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An open letter
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