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Well aren't I glad I found this thread?! I was going to go and book a flight to BA tomorrow. So for the last year or so I've had a big plan to head to South America, learn spanish, buy a car and drive as far as I can across the continent. Insanity? death wish? awesome? please let me know. Questions: - Is Buenos Aires a good starting point, considering I want to be somewhere that will keep me entertained for a month or two while I do Spanish courses? - Is it possible to immerse myself in the language to a degree where I'll be able to speak it enough to get by throughout SA (minus Brazil of course) in such a short time? (on a related note, does anyone know of good total immersion language courses in BA?) - Is buying a car in BA at all possible/advisable, and how possible would it be to say... drive to Peru/Ecuador? - I have both an Australian and Italian passport, is the Italian (EU) passport going to be better? - Does this sound like a good way to see south america, considering I'll have 5 or 6 months (maybe more), or would you prefer to do it through standard long-distance travel methods? This is by no means my first travel experience - I've done the touristy things through western europe, hired a car and driven around california and nevada, driven from Johannesburg to Capetown, etc, and I easily prefer driving over any other method of travel; in my opinion it is just the perfect way to see the country while having the flexibility to do whatever you want. However, this would be my longest driving effort, and I (currently) know next to no spanish (however, I'm looking to fix that). STA travel has a sale in May on flights to Buenos Aires, ~au$2000 I think, which is an insanely good deal. However, I dont want to book that if theres somewhere better to live while I learn spanish, so please help! Otherwise I'll book that and try flying internally at first, is that easy/cheap? Thanks
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