After all the moving around in Patagonia, Dennise and I were ready to stay in one place for a while. The Patagonia tour ended in Buenos Aires, and we stayed on for a while longer. Buenos Aires is a huge city, and we did many different things. I will try to sum it up with some pictures and stories.
Because we were staying so long, we took the advice of the Canadians we had met in Mendoza, and decided to rent an apartment for a week. Our flat was in a great neighborhood, Palermo Soho, which had many great restaurants and bars.
Buenos Aires is very into Tango. Especially ín the neighborhood of San Telmo, where this picture was taken, but also in other parts of the city, you can find many free tango demonstrations in squares or restaurants. We also caught a fun tango show at the famous Cafe Tortoni.
Cafe Tortoni is an institution in the center of the city. It has been there for a long time, and it is known for the famous people who spent a lot of time there, such as Ernest Hemingway and national political figures. It´s a beautiful, old-school cafe, where you can sit and have churros y chocolate while soaking in the history, or have dinner and catch a tango show.
The theater, Teatro Colon, is a beautiful building that looks incredible inside. We didn´t get to see a show there, but we took a tour. Architecturally and phonically, it is on par with the most famous theaters in the world, and the basement expanded far underneath the building and the adjacent street, containing the many workshops where the sets and costumes are made.
Puerta Madera, or the docks, is a recently upgraded area down by the water, which has a nice promenade for walking, great restaurants, and a public art project of cows with different designs, similar to the hearts in San Francisco. This building looked like a squashed version of the Sydney Opera House.
Semana Santa, Easter week, is a huge deal in SA. Many people leave Buenos Aires, booking up every hotel within a two hour drive, and there are large, city-wide events. On Good Friday, we watched the Via Cruces, a recreation of Jesus´crucifixion starting with the last supper and going through the 14 stations of the cross, as a crowd 50,000 strong followed from one city square to another.
After we saw Jesus die on the cross, we did what every good Catholic would and went to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the cultural center. Neither of us had seen it in a long time, and it was fun watching it in Spanish and seeing the crowd here participate with different props.
Because we were staying so long, we took the advice of the Canadians we had met in Mendoza, and decided to rent an apartment for a week. Our flat was in a great neighborhood, Palermo Soho, which had many great restaurants and bars.
Buenos Aires is very into Tango. Especially ín the neighborhood of San Telmo, where this picture was taken, but also in other parts of the city, you can find many free tango demonstrations in squares or restaurants. We also caught a fun tango show at the famous Cafe Tortoni.
Cafe Tortoni is an institution in the center of the city. It has been there for a long time, and it is known for the famous people who spent a lot of time there, such as Ernest Hemingway and national political figures. It´s a beautiful, old-school cafe, where you can sit and have churros y chocolate while soaking in the history, or have dinner and catch a tango show.
The theater, Teatro Colon, is a beautiful building that looks incredible inside. We didn´t get to see a show there, but we took a tour. Architecturally and phonically, it is on par with the most famous theaters in the world, and the basement expanded far underneath the building and the adjacent street, containing the many workshops where the sets and costumes are made.
Puerta Madera, or the docks, is a recently upgraded area down by the water, which has a nice promenade for walking, great restaurants, and a public art project of cows with different designs, similar to the hearts in San Francisco. This building looked like a squashed version of the Sydney Opera House.
Semana Santa, Easter week, is a huge deal in SA. Many people leave Buenos Aires, booking up every hotel within a two hour drive, and there are large, city-wide events. On Good Friday, we watched the Via Cruces, a recreation of Jesus´crucifixion starting with the last supper and going through the 14 stations of the cross, as a crowd 50,000 strong followed from one city square to another.
After we saw Jesus die on the cross, we did what every good Catholic would and went to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the cultural center. Neither of us had seen it in a long time, and it was fun watching it in Spanish and seeing the crowd here participate with different props.
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