Watch out Buenos Aires!

Our flight to South America was long and confusing (we ended up in Buenos Aires 3 hours before we left Sydney. Eh?) but the captain was very nice. We made friends with him:

Despite the jet lag we both fell in love with Buenos Aires. We stayed in an area called San Telmo which was a picturesque, working class area with cobbled streets, intriguing graffiti and tango dancers on every corner:

Tango show in Plaza Dorrego where we enjoyed fine wine and finer steak

Nearby, in the Plaza De Mayo was the famous Casa Rosada; where Eva Peron addressed the crowds. It looked bigger in the film.

And a short subte ride took us to Buenos Aires´ poshest area La Recoleta, where Argentina´s elite compete and pay exorbitant amounts of money on elaborate tombs in the cemetery. This is where Eva "Evita" Peron nee Duarte is buried.

We didn´t think Evita´s was as impressive as a lot of the other ones. After the cemetery tour, we had a stroll around La Recoleta taking in the nearby churches and art installments.

This flower was outside the Law university building and opens every morning and closes at night, like a real flower, using hydrolics powered by solar energy.

In the evening we visited the world famous Tango bar - Cafe Tortoni for some impressive dancing and musical performances.

It´s hard to tell what this is, but these two guys took it in turns to simultaneously tap dance and bang out complex beats on the floor with long weighted ropes. Muy Impresivo!

The next day we dug out our map and went in search of the artistic, dock area of the city called La Boca. This district grew up from immigrants arriving and setting up house near the water. They painted their houses with left over materials from the dock yard and today it is a bright, bohemian tourist attraction, though people do still live there!

(ed) Matt wishes it to be made clear that the salad 

here pictured was merely a precursor to the steak which was his main course

La Bombanera home of Boca Juniors

Here endeth our visit to Buenos Aires (though I think we could both come back and live here one day). That night we took a posh super cama bus to Cordoba.