Buenos Aires, Argentina
I am sure that the with number of miles we have walked in this city, we could have crossed the entire country by now.
In addition to our own random wandering, we have now been on two actual walking tours. The number of interesting or downright odd buildings, along with their stories, is fascinating. The architecture continues to be an astounding mix of inspired beauty and extremely uninspired ugliness.
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| United Nations sculpture - closes up at night |
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| Planetarium - closed for renovations |
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| The Cathedral that the Pope calls home |
One district, not far from our hotel, is Puerto Madero, the site of the original port for the city. Now it is a lovely, gentrified home to upscale businesses and pricey high-rise residences. There are two marinas here, the yacht club that would not let scruffy looking vagrants like ourselves near enough to see, and another that is situated such that it could never be very private, being right in the middle of one of the old "Dikes" of the former port, now surrounded by trendy restaurants and such. We were treated to the spectacle of one of the swing bridges opening, holding up a huge amount of traffic, to allow a single small sailboat passage to the outer harbour - pretty cool!
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| 1906 |
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| 2015 |
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| Pedestrian bridge |
We visited an old navy training frigate, now set up as a museum. Also pretty cool.
One other museum that caught our eye was the Bicentennial Museum, where we got a glimpse of the last 200 years of history for Argentina. Suffice it say that they have had their share of turbulence over the years, a lot of it very recent - and there is nothing to say it is over yet. Economically, this country is still very messed up. I would not recommend converting all your money into Argentinian Pesos.
Today, we wandered down to the bus terminal and got some tickets out of here. Tomorrow we will be travelling upriver to the city of Rosario, the Salsa Capital of Argentina. Yah, that sounds like fun!
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