A house in San Telmo, a cute area with lots of colorful houses and a huge street fair on Sundays:
A house in San Telmo, famed for being the skinniest house in Argentina:
Having a midday cappuccino:
A food market in San Telmo, with Christmas decorations still up:
Buenos Aires taxi ride:
Consulting with our guide, Sol (in green shirt), after our walking tour of Buenos Aires on Saturday. She told us where to go for the amazing steak (this visit to the steakhouse is documented in scrupulous detail above):
The house where the president lives:
The balcony on this house where Evita and Presidente Peron spoke to the people:
The obelisk near the President's house. There was a dictatorship in Buenos Aires in the 1970s, during which about 30,000 people where kidnapped, tortured and usually killed. These people are called desaparecidos, which means "disappeared people". While this was happening, the mothers of some of the women who were taken who were pregnant at the time they were taken started looking for their grandchildren. There was a rule at the time that no more than 2 people could congregate in public, so one day they met at the obelisk and walked in pairs around it in protest so that technically they weren't breaking any rules. This became a society called Las Madres de 5 de Mayo (5 de Mayo is the name of this plaza). They started meeting at this obelisk every week to draw attention to their plight, and to this day every Thursday at 3pm Las Madres de 5 de Mayo meet there to walk around the obelisk. So far they have reunited 90-something children with their original families.
The 3 of us during the walking tour:
Kris & Glenn:
Street art:
A pretty fountain. Don't remember what or where it was though:
The national flower of Argentina, the Ceibo:
A house with a windmill:
The Congress Hall. They say this is the most expensive building in Argentina because the people in there make the most and do the least:
1 comment:
I love Argentina. when we were there we rent apartment buenos aires. We were near Cañitas. There you have lots of great restaurants and bars. The icecream of Freddo and Persicco is deliciouuuus. The flavor dulse de leche garnizado is the best!! It's like caramel with chocolate.
We went to the zoo which is really big, to Puerto Madero that is the luxurious area of Buenos Aires and San telmo, the place where the city was born.
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