Artisan Chocolate, vol. 1: La Cumbre
Love Chocolate?
If you read my earlier post on La Cumbre, the cute town north of Cordoba, and end up there, there is one essential little place I forgot to mention.
We found La Casita del Chocolate completely by accident, while wandering the country lane-like back streets of residential La Cumbre. Mel saw a sign with the word Chocolate on it and the mission began.
Turns out La Casita del Chocolate is actually an artisanal homemade chocolate shop run out of the front of a private home. Jorge and...
July 4th, 2008 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: argentina, chocolate, eating, La Cumbre
Paragliding Argentina!
The sleepy town of La Cumbre seems an unlikely adventure sport capital. Nothing seems to move very fast, and it is terminally laid-back.
However, thanks to some cooperative geography and near-perfect conditions, parapente as it is known in Spanish, has become the thing to do here. La Cumbre has become for Argentinean paragliders what Rio has to hang gliders.
For those of you who may not be familiar with the sport, paragliding involves taking off from a cliff or other stationary object, wearing...
June 13th, 2008 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: adventure, argentina, culture, La Cumbre, Paragliding
La Cumbre, Cordoba, Argentina
... the surrounding countryside.
One gem we might not have found had it not been for an Argentinean friend with family ties there was the small town of La Cumbre. 100 km north of Cordoba, La Cumbre is a laid back town of B&B’s, in the Punilla valley (a popular tourist route known for its beauty), surrounded by modest mountains and fields of tall grass. Its most popular tourist draw is a country road a few clicks out of town nicknamed the Camino de los Artesanos, a cluster of artisans, artists...
June 4th, 2008 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: argentina, Camino de los Artesanos, City Review, Cordoba, drinking, eating, La Cumbre
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