Good For One GalaxyAfter a nearly 15 hour flight from Sydney we were excited to finally touch down in Buenos Aires.
The city was not as we expected, but in a good way. It’s multicultural and eclectic, with its colonial style buildings and a cafe on every corner, Buenos Aires felt more like a city in Europe than somewhere in South America.
The Plaza de Mayo is at the heart of this city, serving as a meeting place for workers at lunch, pigeon feeding and of course the numerous protests (there was one held just about every day).
Pigeon feeding at the Plaza de Mayo
Just outside the city centre is where you see the best of BsAs. The suburb of San Telmo features some of the coolest graffiti and mural art and well as an antique market with the highlight being an elderly couple dancing the Tango to a Spanish guitar.
Further outside of the city is La Boca. A strange place with houses and cafes painted in all different colors, making otherwise normal corrugated iron look quite interesting.
To the north is Recoleta where the city’s most notable characters are buried in elaborate mausoleums that look more like houses than grave sites. Our guide showed us a Nobel prize winner who first created lactose free milk, the political figures of Argentinas’ past as well as a few ghost stories, and Evita Perons’ grave.
La Recoleta Cemetery — resting place of Evita Peron, First Lady of Argentina and “Spiritual Leader of the Nation” as they called her.
By the end of our stay in BsAs we had walked almost every mile of the city, feasted on our fare share of steak, wine and empanadas. And so, it was time to move on to our next stop — beautiful Córdoba Capital, 8hrs north west of BsAs towards the magnificent Andes.
Stay tuned for the next post, where we explore Córdoba and begin to learn Spanish.