Rio Gallegos, Argentina Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Few people hang around long in RÍO GALLEGOS (pronounced RI-o ga-SHAY-goss ), heading out instead to Calafate, south to Ushuaia or northwards with as little delay as possible. Despite a surfeit of tourist offices, the town is well aware that it's not a tourist destination per se , though if you have time to kill here, all is not lost – there are a couple of little museums, one or two attractive early twentieth-century buildings, and a day excursion to the penguin colony at Cabo Vírgenes. One thing that does attract people to Gallegos from as far away as North America, Europe and Japan, is its … more »