Friday, January 28, 2011

Exploring Buenos Aires - 22nd-23rd January

We always find a great way to get your bearing in a new city is to take the touristy open top double decker - stopping at all the main attractions in the city, with a running commentary.

In Buenos Aires, this was a 3 hour tour, with 12 stops that you can jump on and off at, including:
The famous Recoleta Cemetery, with many elaborate marble mausoleums, where Eva Peron is buried (along with some of the most important Argentines)

The Boca where the tango originated

San Telmo and the famous sunday market, with all the street performers:

There are some fantastic buildings and architecture and some of the streets are very wide (we counted 9 lanes going one way on one street! the city looks very Eurpoean.

We used the pass over 2 days doing a total of 3 circuits! By Monday afternoon we were tired but felt we had a much better idea of the city.