January 31, 2023
Atacama desert tours
After more than three years without visiting the Chile Atacama, we at Poncho Tours have now been across the Andes four times in three months (and I’m...
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January 15, 2023
Hiking in north west Argentina
"Before we go any further, we have to ask for permission". We'd just started hiking through some of the most spectacular landscape in north west Arg...
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December 27, 2022
Argentina's famous empanadas
Food again, after my ruminations on the Andean potato. (I try to write this blog first thing after breakfast, when I'm not hungry, but it doesn’t alwa...
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December 6, 2022
The sport of kings
My only experience of polo was as a young journalist when I was sent to cover Prince Charles in the first flush of his marriage troubles with Diana, a...
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November 10, 2022
How much does a dollar cost in Argentina?
UPDATE March 6th 2023: Latest government figures claim that over 800,000 visitors from abroad spent US$164 million on their bank cards, benefiting fr...
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November 1, 2022
Day of the Dead
As anyone who has seen the film Coco will know, today is the Day of the Dead. Celebrated most famously in Mexico, but also throughout Latin America,...
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October 17, 2022
Celebrate the humble spud
The humble potato gets a bad press. It's associated with unhealthy eating habits: eg crisps, often eaten by a couch potato while another member of the...
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September 24, 2022
Birth of Inca Legend
Bolivia is famous for its salt flats, the Salar de Uyuni, and Peru is rightly celebrated for Cusco, Machu Picchu and the Inca trail, but there is much...
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September 5, 2022
(Un)holy trinity part 2
When you're visiting Argentina with Poncho Tours, you will notice many roadside shrines: one featuring red flags, another mountains of plastic bottles...
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