Recoleta Buenos Aires

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So I arrived safely in Buenos Airies after my amazing bus ride. I'm in a really cool hostel right in the centre of town, the city seems pretty amazing so far. It's very built up, lots of cars, massive road junctions, lots of shops and busy people. It kind of has a European City feel to it. It seems safe enough but I've not …

Today, I went to Recoleta. It was a quieter day in the city. This is a very nice neighbourhood, although it would be even nicer if more was open. I walked through the cemetery for a while, and then went to the open market, and the Design stores.

In late afternoon, early evening, our group met up at a café notable, Café Tortoni. This café …

So round 2 for BA back through the same bloody bus station but this time we were on a mission! But of course the entrance to the underground was closed who cares we walked to the next station that bus station is dodgy!

The whole first part of our trip was organised to be in BA for the Rugby I even managed to get a RWC All Blacks shirt in …

Še en lep in sončen dan je na vidiku. Posvetiva ga obisku preteklosti in sedanjosti. Preteklosti, ki še vedno živi oziroma jo ohranjajo pri tem dejstvu sedaj živeči in sedanjosti, ki poskuša živeti na nekoč tako živi preteklosti, ki to nikoli ne bo. No, to sem sedaj povedala tako komplicirano, da …

We spent 10 nights in Buenos Aires as I really enjoyed the time I spent there in 2003. We booked into a Hostel in the San Telmo district which is filled with cobbled streets and colonial era buildings. It was the area the rich lived in before moving to Recoleta and allowing for a grungy street vibe. Walking around the city on our first day we …

Well its out last day here in BA. Its all gone so quickly.
Arrived back from
Iguazu friday - we've stayed in the same hotel here whenever we've been in BA so
a nice welcome back.
Saturday we did an open top bus tour of BA, started well
until we got to the first stop off and then the bus information thingy broke
down!! We …

We arrived in Buenos Aires with no real agenda other than eating well, drinking well, relaxing and catching up with friends we'd met on our way there. In this respect it was a great success! It was by far the least strenuous time that we've had since we've been away so far, but it was also one of the most enjoyable stops.

Buenos Aires is a …

Today we went on a city tour through Buenos Aires with a large tour group. Unfortunately we didn't realise that it would be in a full sized tourist bus, which was a nightmare trying to navigate the congested streets of Buenos Aires. To add to the disappointing bus size we also had some
rather loud and obnoxious South Americans, who …

Our last day in Buenos Aires involved the final tick box of Recoleta, the most upmarket barrio which holds claim to the famous cemetry, which in turn holds claim to the grave of Eva Peron. The cemetry was an eery place. Entering through the iron gates you are met with what are best described as a series of streets; except each ornate ´house´ …

Well the adventure begins, the planning and paying completed, we have at last seated ourselves in the Qantus lounge for breakfast. Thanks to Danial, we arrived in plenty of time to go through a slow checkin process and convince the business lounge we are entitled to be here. Relaxed now and ready for the adventure. Well we arrived in Argentina and …

... most of the time was spent soaking up the atmosphere.  In the heart of San Telmo we came across something else that Buenos Aires is famous for, street tango.  Obviously it’s just for the tourists, and it was a little uninteresting when ...

... .  Even the bottle of malbec wasn't as good as cheaper ones we'd had earlier in the trip. Our last full day in Buenos Aires was also our first day of rain since Bariloche.  It came down hard all morning and into the early afternoon.  We ...

... or less every day. It's not like you have to wait until the next weekend before the city wakes up again. I arrive in Buenos Aires on a Friday morning, after spending 14 hours on a night bus from Mendoza. That same night I go to familiar restaurants, ...

... birthplace of Tango. It was vibrant and joyful and I really could have enjoyed it for much longer, if I had the time. OTHER BUENOS AIRES FAVORITES The rest of the tour was extremely enjoyable. The bus took us to water-front Puerto Madero, Paris-like ...

... , after almost two weeks in Buenos Aires. Next stop is Uruguay for a few days, before I head back into Argentina. I have had a really good time in Buenos Aires, how can you not have good time here? But since I have spent the last six weeks or so in big ...

... here and take in much of what the city has to offer.   One of the "must sees" when visiting Buenos Aires is the Recoleta Cemetery. The elaborate crypts are built to accommodate generations of families and quite a few were comparable in size to ...

... tried to kill me a couple of times, but that's all part of a healthy relationship, isn't it? During these last 2 weeks, Buenos Aires has captured me completely. From the antique markets in San Telmo to the designer boutiques of Palermo Soho; from near ...

... Patagonia, got slapped in the face by high altitude in Bolivia and befriended and eaten a sheep in Argentina glacier country! What possible adventure could Buenos Aires, the so called "Paris of the South" really bring me? I was extremely skeptical as I ...

Despite having already stayed in two cities since our Patagonian adventure it was Buenos Aires that made us really want to escape back to the wilds; a gut reaction to the overwhelming size of the city, the confining streets, imposing buildings, the ...

... I will be donning my stripy tights and split to the thigh dress and tangoing down the streets of Buenos Aires. We have also checked out the amazing Recoleta cemetery where the family crypts are about the size of some London apartments and resemble mini ...