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Field-tested guides to paying (and living) in the places Yodl works, written by people on the ground.

Scanning a Mercado Pago table QR with a phone in a Buenos Aires bar

Featured · Argentina

Paying in Argentina, right now

What the crypto rate gets you this month, and how to pay for everything by QR.

Getting your first payment through

The one thing everyone needs on day one.

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Argentina · Start here

How to pay in Argentina as a traveler

Scan, confirm, they get pesos. No local bank, no card.

Paying for a coconut by Pix QR at a beach stand in Rio

Brazil · Start here

How to pay in Brazil as a traveler

Pay like a local in ten seconds.

Scanning a VietQR table tent with a phone at a cafe counter

Vietnam · Start here

How to pay in Vietnam as a traveler

How the QR system works for a visitor.

Living there

Eat, work, and settle in like you stayed a while.

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The wine-lined dining room at Don Julio in Palermo

Argentina · Directory

Places we actually go

Parrilla, medialunas, and the feria, with straight PICK / SKIP verdicts.

A coffee at the bar of a classic Buenos Aires cafe, laptops open behind

Argentina

Working from Buenos Aires

Cafés, coworking, and where the fiber is.

A lively Palermo Soho corner at night, a cobblestone street lined with string-lit sidewalk bars and a lit corner building topped with a craft-beer sign, people at outdoor tables and a motorbike crossing the intersection

Argentina

Buenos Aires neighborhoods

Where to base yourself for a month.

The money & the rate

Turning money into local cash, the rates, and keeping more of what you brought.

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The Obelisco of Buenos Aires at dusk, seen down a wide avenue streaked with traffic light-trails under a violet sky

Argentina

Blue, MEP and the crypto rate, explained

Which rate a traveler really gets, in plain English.

A customer holds a phone up to a blue Mercado Pago QR standee on the marble counter of a classic Buenos Aires café, a barista behind the bar

Argentina

Turn stablecoins into pesos in Argentina

Stablecoins to pesos in hand.

Browse by country

Every guide, by country — the payments work nationwide; the guides cover the cities we know best.

Argentina

Brazil

Philippines

Vietnam

India

Paying in Goa — coming soon
Landing in Goa
Getting around Goa
North Goa neighborhoods

Switzerland

Paying in Zürich — coming soon
Landing in Zürich
Getting around Zürich
Zürich neighborhoods

Thailand

Paying in Chiang Mai — coming soon
Landing in Chiang Mai
Getting around Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai neighborhoods

Know before you go.

Every guide is free and written on the ground. Yodl is the app we make; it’s how you pay once you land.

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