Saturday night and Sunday in BA!

“Buenos Aires is like a cooler version of NYC. There is the same bustling energy and activity throughout the city, but Buenos Aires is more spacious, has more beautiful old architecture mixed with modern new buildings, and it frankly just smells better (NYC is just always filled with the smell of cigarettes, and I can't stand it). I loved walking around the city and seeing the different sites I researched during class these past 2 years. I finally got to see the obelisk, the casa rosada, the plaza de mayo, recoleta, and so much more. I adored the area around recoleta because it was filled with all of these little vendors that sold goods ranging from stuffed bread and empanadas to leather belts to artwork to homemade jewelry to maté and bombillas. All in all, my experience in Buenos Aires has been quite incredible and I am excited for what is still to come."

Rory

Obelisco:

Casa Rosada:

Somos ARGENTINOS:

Nos gusta el fútbol (we’re inside a giant football)

Primera cena en Buenos Aires:

Walking tour & Puerto Madero @ night: 10 miles!:

Today was, as promised, a day of intense walking. However, it was also a day of intense fun, a day of beauty and discovery and lots of good food. In addition to viewing several historically and politically important sights and learning about their histories, we also went to an outdoor market / fair that sold everything from hand crafted jewelry to original artwork to artisan stuffed breads and empanadas. After the market, my favorite part of the day was our tour of the Recolecta Cemetery, which was both spooky and fascinating and also highly entertaining. It looked sort of like a small city, only with mausoleums instead of buildings and corpses instead of citizens. Our tour guide, Mariana, told us many interesting stories about those buried in the cemetery and speculated that the dead rise every night to have a rave.

Laura

Tumba de Evita:

Frente al hotel con Mariana, nuestra guía de hoy:

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