We're locals claiming back our right to storytell.

"The Paris of South America". For the longest time, the touristic history of Buenos Aires has been centered in that catchy slogan: after all, who doesn't love Paris? And, if you wander into the neighborhoods of Retiro and Recoleta, you might even believe this slogan to be true and, medialuna in hand, fancy yourself in a Parisian arrondissement.


But this slogan is problematic: Buenos Aires is European, sure, but it's also Latina, Black, Jewish, Indigenous, Queer. It's political, it's humorous, feisty, intimate, friendly, alluring and haunting.


Buenos Aires can never be just one story, one angle, one take away. 

This glowing city is made of a thousand stories that are aching to be told, and we are here to share them.


This is Lunfarda. We are not foreigners selling you on a tango, fútbol and asado dream.

We are locals using our storytelling powers to claim diversity as our legacy, our pride and the reason to come and visit us.


After all, Buenos Aires is the Buenos Aires of South America.

And we wouldn't have it any other way.

our activism turned us into

an award winning travel agency

It is our mission to help others diversify their local travel industry as well. Our founder is the creator of the www.intersectionaltravelmovement.org and a speaker advocating for intersectionality and more specifically anti-racist and LGBTIQA+ policies.


Our commitement to social justice through travel has  earned us the following awards and recognitions:


  • Mariana Radisic Koliren - David Martin Smalls Fellowship Recepient - IGLTA Foundation - 2022
  • Lunfarda Travel - Innovation Award - CCGLAR - 2022
  • Lunfarda Travel - Impact Award - IGLTA Foundation 2023

New voices of our diverse culture

We are not your regular travel agency: we are tour developers who identify those stories that need to be told and turn them into tours and experiences, working side by side with members of the represented communities to strive for accurate self-representation.


As we develop these tours, we think about how they benefit our guests, guides and community and design ways to make a positive impact. That's why many of our Lunfarda-created tours have a give-back program integrated into the tour.... check below to learn the deets!


In Lunfarda, your guide will always be a member of the community the tour is representing, speaking out of their own flesh and experiences.


We believe that sharing the microphone enriches both our guests and the local touristic narrative.

Lunfardo is an argot born in the gritty southern neighborhoods of Buenos Aires during the times of the Big Immigration.

It's the language of the people, a slang shared by the native-americans, African-Argentines, criollos and European immigrants; a compromise and a meeting point where a thousand cultures merge to become Argentina.

 

Lunfardo is our past, but it's also our legacy, a living entity that encompasses all the porteñes, creating our own cosmos of sonorous mutual understanding.

Lunfarda is the essence of the beauty of our city: a city of a thousand cultures, a thousand sounds and a thousand stories.

These are some of the

usually untold stories we are proud to share:

Afro-Argentine Tour

From the earliest colonial times, the Spanish conquistadores brought along them enslaved Africans that contributed enormously to the culture and history of this country.


The Afro-Argentines built the historic city centers of Argentina, and their culture and contributions can be felt in asado, tango, candombe and in the lunfardo slang. They fought for our idependence and continue to produce culture and richness for our country.


But in the late 1800s, the leaders of Argentina decided to brand the country as an extension of Europe, erasing the contributions and history of the Afro-Argentines to such an extent that even today, many people say "there are no Black people in Argentina" -despite the fact that about 5% of the country is Afro-.


We wanted to share the rich, fascinating story of the African diaspora in our country, so together with members of the community we designed the first ever tour about the history of the Afro-Argentines, which takes place in San Telmo, the colonial city center of Buenos Aires.


For every private tour we sell, we sponsor a free tour for a class in the public education system, so that kids can have a broader notion of our history, and sponsor affordable tickets for our local community to learn about Argentina's Black History.


We have also developed longer itineraries specifically tailored to Afro-Diasporic travelers, where we visit community centers, learn traditional rhythms and even take part in performatic events about Black Identity and History.

Queer Argentina Tour

Non-binary IDs, gender reaffirming surgeries, same sex marriage, IVF for lesbian couples... Argentina has experienced a revolution of  Rights for our Queer folk that is challenging its traditional conservative Catholic roots.


In a city where none of the "gay tours" touch on the fascinating history that allowed Argentines to live in such a free environment, we thought this was a story that needed to be told.


We created the first ever tour about the History of Queerness in Argentina, starting from the pre-colonial times all the way into the election of a President with a drag queen, non-binary child.


In our tour we explore the highlights, icons, characters and landmark legislations of our country and talk about what's next for the movement.


We believe that tours should enrich their communities, which is why we donate 10% of the earnings of this tour to Mocha Celis, a high school that caters to trans and non-binary folk. Statistically, less than 20% of trans folk finish their high school education and less than 2% graduate from college, so we love this project!


We also have a long term plan of partnering up with trans education facilites to create a training program to open up a career path in tourism for trans and non-binary folk. Stay tuned!

Donate to Mocha Celis
Jewish Heritage

Buenos Aires is the second largest Jewry in the Americas, after NYC.


The Argentine Jewry has a unique, intersectional identity marked by workers' struggles, Yiddish tangos, Nazis, football and much more. 


In our tours we explore the politics, the history, the culture, the food and even the slang of the Argentine Jews, as well as the contradiction of being known as a Nazi haven while simultaneously housing one of the largest communities in the world.


All of our tours pay Tzedakah to mantain the synagogues and temples we visit, which receive no state funding.


We also create kosher-compliant itineraries both in Buenos Aires and accross select parts of Argentina.

Human Rights

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Argentina has a complicated political history: in the last century, it experienced 6 dictatorships and many fraught democractic periods.


In 1976, a brutal dictatorship changed Argentina forever. As people dissapeared, their mothers, religious leaders and other members of the community put their lives on the line fo fight for Human Rights and the restoration of democracy.


As the only generation that was born and raised under democracy, we were told not to take our political landscape for granted. 


We wanted to share this story so in times of extreme polarization people can be inspired to stand up for democratic values and Human Rights.

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