Cycling around the parks of Palermo

Trip Start Mar 03, 2009
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Trip End Apr 10, 2009


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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Buenos Aires is generally a very beautiful city, with itīs wide, well designed streets & little parks & squares dotted everywhere but Palermo is particularly fabulous.

There are miles & miles of parkland in Palermo - seperated into different themes with a Japanese Garden, zoo, lakes & a gorgeous Rose garden.

I explored them by bike on a tour with http://www.biketours.com.ar/ing/index.html and as the only person on the tour that day got to mooch around at my own pace. The one way system & wide streets & pavements make BA quite easy to explore by bike & once you hit the extensive parks you barely see a car. 

I parks were all strangely quiet when I cycled through on a Thursday but when I returned on the weekend with the girls for a picnic they where jam packed with families enjoying the sunshine. There is a wide track around the riose gardens which was full of runners, walkers and roller bladers.
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