Dienstag, 3. April 2012

Buenos Aires

The journey to Buenos Aires you can denote like a trip to the past. We left Auckland on the 22.3. at 20h and reached Buenos Aires after a 12 hour trip on the same day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. From the airport we took the public bus #8 (for 2Pesos) to the city center.
In BA we spent 11 days. The hostel Millhouse where we lived offered also a "communication room" where we met travelers from all over the world and from whom we have gotten advices for our upcoming Peru and Brazilian trip. It was also great to enjoy there, after NZ cheap beer. Unfortunately this room was also sometimes the reason for sleepless nights, because it was under our room and open till 2am.
On the second day I signed up for a one week Spanish course and Julian took tango lessons. In the evening and on weekends we walked around trough the different districts. (About the different districts I will describe below more).
Once we booked a Tango show inclusive dinner and before this event I had also the chance to make first "tango steps".
On an bicycle tour with guide a learned more about the different districts and history.
On the two weekends the main streets were always closed once for a demonstration where also bottles and other things flew around. On the last weekend there was a car race.





Tango dancer everywhere on the street

Argentiniens love to demonstrate



Dinner before Tango show

Tango show
Here we have not been in a brothel, this was also part of the Tango show

Plaza de Mayo and Casa Rosada
Cabildo was at colonial times the town hall
Puerto Madero the newest (since 1996) and most expensive destrict of BA.
Puerto Madero
Women bridge desinged by S. Calatrava

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again demonstration

Lesson

Our Spanish teacher Tatiana
Group photo "My Spanish class"

Congresso de la nacion

Car race in the center
Artist in San Telmo
Street market in San Telmo


Memorial for the fallen soldiers from the "Falkland Island War "


Destrict "La Boca", The oldest part of BA.

La Boca

For the soccer fans: Stadion of the club "Boca Juniors"


Russian orthodox church




La Boca

La Boca


I do not know who he is, but it seems he was also builder

Landmark of BA: Obelisko

In Argentinia they are also selling big bottles of Corona:)

Palermo

Palermo

Palermo

Palermo



Cementerio de la Recoleta
Cementerio de la Recoleta

Cementerio de la Recoleta

Technical University

1 Kommentar:

  1. bernhard, you'll never give up learning languages, huh? :) spanish now?! what a boy! :)

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