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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Buenos Aires Death

June 6, 2007 at 5:07 PM | 1 Comment

Embedded Travel Guides: We are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then stealthy embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Matt Chesterton of Buenos Aires. You might remember this x-Time Out Travel star from HotelChatter's hit series The Thinkers' Guide to Staying in Buenos Aires.

Expect his guide to be dead on. Way back when, he told us that La Cabaña is not the best steakhouse in Argentina, and rather, a national embarrassment, the kind of place that in previous epochs of "our" history would have been firebombed--reserved for Steakhouse Suckers, his words, not ours. This is exactly the kind of unadulterated sentiment you can expect to find from this embed.

Tourism fads come and go and all of the rules change all of the time. Except this one: Everybody loves a good cemetery. It's the acceptable face of necromania. People will cross half a dozen time zones just to hover awkwardly around the sacred turf of a celebrity cadaver. And if you think of Madame Tussaud's as a kind of mortuary of the living dead, a preview screening of how superstars will look after the embalmer has finished with them, the case is closed. Stiffs sell.

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