starting out in Buenos Aires capital of
Argentina Buenos Aires is a very urban
place a very sophisticated city you'll
find a lovely mix of parks and shops and
apartment buildings restaurants and
cafes all throughout the city one of the
most colorful neighborhoods of the city
is La Boca and particularly this little
street called caminito there's the
really artists gather to sell their
original works of art and of course
there's more shops nearby another of the
stops on our city tour is the Cathedral
of the city right on the main square the
Plaza de Mayo fronting on the same
square that the presidential palace is
on and some other government buildings
our guide tells us about the history of
the place the Casa Rosada in the
background the president's office
building as we continue along on our bus
tour a large Cemetery is a visitor
must-see in Buenos Aires it's like a
city of the Dead here beautiful
structures you really must visit the
recoleta cemetery when you're in Buenos
Aires the most famous grave here is that
of Eva Peron one of the most popular
political leaders in the history of the
country she was the wife of Juan Peron
and a great champion of the poor the
music of Buenos Aires is the tango which
you can find all over town they even
have tango on the shopping mall downtown
it's a free show that's put on every day
at about noon in front of the big
shopping mall you're going to find that
the dollar is quite strong in Argentina
and one of the best values is a meal at
a restaurant we visited Las Na Serena's
for lunch and had a fantastic steak meal
along with vegetables and potatoes and
then the same evening we went to
yet another steak restaurant cabanyal is
Leila's over at Porto Madero and this
was excellent not expensive even though
it's a fancy restaurant and we had our
choice from the menu and a grand time in
a beautiful atmosphere at this
restaurant in a new part of town
recently developed along the waterfront
next morning we enjoyed breakfast at our
Swank
hotel as Splendora and then took a
morning walk over into the Alvear and
ricky'll let the neighborhood's great
shops in this part of town and all they
are there's antique shops there's
high-fashion great shoe stores funny to
see these dog walkers out it's a real
industry in Buenos Aires where you have
so many people living in apartments and
the owners are too busy to take the dogs
out for a walk so these young guys have
made a part-time career out of walking
the dog the Parliament of Argentina is
quite a remarkable structure it's
something like the US Capitol building
but with an elongated dome that made a
nice stop for us and a photo-op on our
walking tour and in continuing along to
cafe tortoni in business in the same
spot for a hundred and fifty years
walking along the widest street in the
world the nueva to Julio with the
obelisk right in the center and it's a
busy commercial area with several
pedestrian malls running through the
heart of town the Florida Mall is a lot
of fun it's a pedestrian only street
just around the corner from our hotel
maybe pick up some inexpensive items
from the sidewalk kiosks and of course
there are some spectacular pastries in
the coffee shops we stopped in to this
grand classic Belle Epoque cafe for some
morning refreshments most enjoyable and
then you can also take the metro to get
around town it brings you right back
into the center very convenient
then there's the tango
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