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Buenos Aires, Argentina – April 2007

November 7, 2008 at 1:37 pm · Filed under Argentinia

 We arrived in Buenos Aires early in the morning and after checking into the Waldorf hotel, we were whisked away by our tour operator for a sight seeing tour of the city.
  
We visited the very colourful La Boca area where the poorest of the poor used to live in times gone by. Today it is a tourist attraction with buildings painted in various colours.
 
Mervyn and myself among the buildings of La Boca
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 La Boca is also famous for its huge soccer stadium.

 
Here Mervyn is posing next to a statue of a soccer hero
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Our hotel was situated in a side street just off the famous Florida Street.

 
Various performances can be viewed here day and night; from musicians to tango dancers to mimic artists.
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The most beautiful architecture can be seen in many parts of Buenos Aires, but specifically in Florida Street.

 

No vehicles are allowed on this long street, only pedestrians.

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At a salad bar in Forida Street
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Outside one of the many museums. We read in a travel book that there was a real mummy kept at this one, only to be told that it is against this country’s regulations to display mummies!

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Mervyn at the main post office, buying stamps for Kobus

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St Martin Park is in the centre of Buenos Aires and a very popular place for locals and tourists to take walks or to sit and relax. The trees were full of pink flowers that fell to the ground to form a thick carpet.

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Mervyn and I at the foot of a huge statue of Saint Martin, Argentina’s Liberator!

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Included in our trip was a tango show with traditional dinner.

Here is the view from the restaurant’s balcony.

 
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The Argentinians are very friendly people and we made many aquaintances wherever we went. 

 
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Mervyn and Daniel, one of the waiters at Florida Tea Garden!
 
Argentina was an unforgettable experience – a place to which we would love to return one day!
rvyn and Daniel, a waiter at Florida Tea Garden on Florida Street.

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