An Argentinean website offering sports gear of all kinds and quite competitive prices; their website at the moment is published only in Spanish, but it can be a good source for those travelling to South America.

It offers worldwide shipping, showing prices in local, European as well as U.S. currencies.

And speaking about outdoor activities and Argentina, we have to say that its territory offers exceptional conditions of all sorts of outdoor, adventure and extreme sports. For Argentinean citizens, life is sometimes very difficult, and always hard, mostly because the awesome incompetence and self-inflicting, suicidal tendencies of the country's leaders at all levels.

But as a country for visiting and enjoying, it offers a lot of advantages: it is cheap, migration authorities are not bothersome and paranoid like in the United States, landscapes are competitive to European postcard standards but without the hordes of tourists that invade the old continent in every season, weather is good and there is abundance of natural resources in all directions. Foreigners are not frowned upon, and you will not run into unnecessary risks like in the Middle East or some other regions of the world.

Lodging is pretty good, as well as general infrastructure and transportation.This is not an underdeveloped or emerging country; it would not be true to say that. It is a developed but extremely messy country, which is something essentially different.

Argentina is the late Howard Hughes incarnated in a continental territory.An interesting point is that you can enjoy quite a civilised life in any city, but walking away a couple of kilometres in almost every direction you will be in the middle of nowhere. There are lots and lots of virgin territories ripe for adventure, but we warn you: this is real adventure, with no trails, shelters, tourist to whom say hello forty nine times per hour while you walk, and so.

The country is under populated and in some cases - literally - uncharted. As for the climate, you have from icebergs and polar chill to tropical jungles, deserts and mediterranean plains; in fact, in your vacations in the country you can enjoy every sort of possible climate area or environment that exists on Earth.

Two natural attractions that you must visit are the Los Glaciares National Park near Calafate, in the far south, and Iguazu Falls National Park in the extreme northeast. You can also find things like megalithic constructions in Tucuman, in the middle of the country, fortresses and towns from the times of the Inca empire in Jujuy, Salta and Catamarca, Jesuit ruins in Misiones, and a lot more.

There are many museums in the country showing excellent collections and exhibits, albeit it is immediately noticeable there that authorities do not care a bit for intellectual, artistic or scientific activities. In fact, political leaders are despised almost with no exception by the population, who see them as brutes; indeed, if you see the resume of most of them, it also becomes apparent that they lack any sort of serious preparation for leading any sort of country. If there is something proper of the third world in Argentina is its leadership; absolute slobs, that is.

While you have world class sportsters and Nobel Prize winners in the country, Senators may not have finished High School, not to say lesser politicians who may have had difficulties with primary education. One gets the idea that sometime, something is going to happen because the gap between the population and their leaders is enormous.

The country is big and you will not get to know it in one short vacation. Transportation is not expensive, but you will have to get used to long distances to travel around.

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