Culture & Lifestyle
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August 29 2012It’s Always Carnival at the Plataforma Samba show!
Rio de Janeiro’s Plataforma Samba show is a special night tour of Rio de Janeiro, which offers you a great live show, giving you a taste of the electric excitement, vibrant colours and up-beat music of carnival celebrations in Rio. If you...
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August 17 2012
Enjoy great food, music, art and more at Rio Gastronomia Festival 2012
/ source In a huge country like Brazil the cuisine is very diverse and full of a variety of flavours, each one with a strong tradition from its respective region and of course with special ingredients and spices. Rio...
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August 8 2012
Torneo Inicial: Argentina Football Begins
Buenos Aires is a wonderful city, defined by many different characteristics that give it a unique personality. One of these is obviously, Buenos Aires football with the Argentine population taking great pride in its national football teams as well as the many tournaments every year. This...
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August 1 2012
Bsas4u Review: Cafe los Angelitos, one of the great tango experiences of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is very well renowned for the beautiful art of tango, and so the city offers its visitors and its inhabitants the chance to experience tango at its finest with its many tango shows! In our previous posts we have already talked quite a...
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July 31 2012
All you need to know about the Brazilian Grand Prix Horse Race
Excitement, beauty and fun are the special ingredients of the 80th edition of the Brazilian Grand Prix Horse Race. The most important horse race in Brazil takes place at the Gavea hippodrome, an arena that hosts horse races in Rio...
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July 23 2012
Chocolate Festival in Bariloche: a wide variety of delicious chocolate
San Carlos de Bariloche, in Argentina, is very well known for its skiing resorts and beautiful landscapes, but also extraordinary chocolate! What could be better then coming back from a long day of skiing and being able to savor one...
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July 18 2012
Tango World Championships in Buenos Aires
The city of Buenos Aires is very well known for many things: its welcoming citizens, its delicious food, its beautiful women, and of course, Tango! This beautiful dance was declared in 2009 to be an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee, and the Porteños (name for locals...
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July 10 2012
2014 World Cup in Brazil - Why does Brazil care?
As the 2014 World Cup in Brazil gets closer, Cariocas are starting to feel the excitement of one of the biggest events of the world. The World Cup has a special meaning for Brazilians. Everyone knows that when it comes...
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July 3 2012
Celebrate Independence Day in Buenos Aires: the best activities and tours
Next Monday, 9th July 2012, the locals of Buenos Aires are celebrating a very important event: el Dia de la Independencia (Independence Day)! This means that no one is working on that day for they will be making the most of a much deserved three day...
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June 26 2012
This week is all about football in Buenos Aires
This week marks a great time for football in Buenos Aires due to two major happenings: first, the Copa Libertadores Final will be opposing Buenos Aires’s biggest team Boca Juniors against the famous Sao Paolo team Corinthians in the Bombonera; and second, River Plate, due to their amazing...
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June 15 2012
Introducing the 2012 Pop Music Festival in Rio de Janeiro
The 2012 Pop Music Festival in Rio de Janeiro has promised to be an entertaining event for Brazilians and tourists. If you are a tourist in Rio de Janeiro, this pop concert is a great chance to go dance. This...
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June 13 2012
Bsas4u Review: Madero Tango, one of the most authentic Tango shows in Buenos Aires
There are many things that characterize the city of Buenos Aires; delicious food and wine, talented football players, plazas filled with porteños drinking mate on a Sunday afternoon, and so the list goes on. However, undoubtedly Buenos Aires’s greatest cultural treasure is Tango...
