FUN:travel – Buenos Aires, Argentina – 4 days
February 4, 2013 by Susan Clarke
The ABC’s of Argentina
A = Awesome
B = Bummer
C = Celebration
Day 3 – Friday, February 1 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – 95 degrees & feels like 102!
La Boca
- A – 9:30 wake up – slept great
- 11:30 – “hop on hop off” Bus Touristico picks up 2 blks from hotel
- $120 pesos (around $24 each) for 24 hrs
- want to go back to La Boca (we were here in 2009) lots of colorful buildings & oversized sculptures of odd looking people
- B – city doesn’t look as pretty – lots of graffiti – dirty
- 1:30 – get to La Boca – walk around – meet nice couple from LA
- lots of outdoor cafes w/live music & couples Tango dancing
- 4:30 – get off bus @stop 15 – not too far from hotel – takes about 20 mins
- B – really too hot for good walk
- 7:00 dinner @ Puerto Cristal in Puerto Madero
Bar Sur Tango
- A – grilled provolone w/oregano & olive oil, spinach, lentil, veggie salad – VG – pink salmon overcooked & Alamos malbec wine – $108
- 9:00 – Bar Sur for Tango – short walk from restaurant (10 blocks)
- A – only 10 tables, very intimate – 2 couples dance, 1 singer, 3 musicians – $126
- 11:00 – take taxi back – $10 seems to be the average to get around town
- A – get to hotel just as rain starts pouring down
FF – (FUN-fact) – Buenos Aires has lots of big grand parks.
