It took 19h to browse 1300km separating Puerto Iguazu to Buenos Aires. But we could get some sleep because the bus was very comfortable with service aboard dinner and breakfast (bus company Rio Uruguay). Federico and Ingrid, the couple from Buenos Aires that we took a ride on the island of Chiloe in Chile where they were on vacation, have come to expect a bus station. It's been awfully pleased to be expected somewhere! D so far as it was already well sympathize all 4.
were housed in downtown Buenos Aires, on Avenida de Mayo immense, and our window we see the Avenida 9 de Julio, one of the largest in the world (up to 140m). Buenos Aires Federal Capital has 3 million inhabitants and 13 million when including the surrounding area: c is the 2nd largest city in South America after Sao Paulo in Brazil and one of the 10 largest in the world. Buenos Aires is situated on the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, 290km long and wide of 48km. It separates Argentina and Buenos Aires from Uruguay and Montevideo. Buenos Aires has some tunes from Paris with his Hausmann style buildings. It s is walking in the pedestrian streets Florida and Lavalle very lively evening, full of restaurants, cafes ... With our friends Porteños (c is well known that the inhabitants of Buenos Aires) and 2 students in Lille lodges couchsurfing by Federico and Ingrid and Francois-Xavier-Tiphaine we visited the neighborhood of Boca with its calle Caminito, its colorful houses, souvenir shops to the taste of tango and its many bars with street performances of tango. Puerto Madero is a chic, old docks Recently refurbished to the edge of the Rio de la Plata with a nice little port and a beautiful sail boat dating from 1899 visit. A very pleasant walk along the river, lots of greenery, all dominated by new skyscrapers to homes. It was lovely these two districts, each in their way. Puerto Madero, you can reach the Plaza de Mayo and the pink palace of government across the Puente de la Mujer on the Rio de la Plata. The district of San Telmo is itself rather bohemian with its cobbled streets and its many street performances. On Sunday, the fair takes place: it was thought that he s acting of a flea market but c is not the case, the main street in San Telmo which starts from the Plaza de Mayo is filled vendors of crafts. The district of Palermo Viejo fairly quiet, do not leave us a lasting memory, and fortunately we ny houses because it is not far from subway stations and therefore offsets from the center city. He chose Recoleta with its cafes and its enormous ficus plant in 1800. The Microcentro is the business district with the Central Bank of Argentina and lots of other banks in figures that show the values of light euro and the dollar. The Buenos Aires metro is quite quaint! And for good reason: this is the first subway in the southern hemisphere to have been commissioned in 1913. It is always crowded, c is a horror ! The interiors of cars of certain lines is as in our old wooden trams. Nothing to do with the super metros that were known in Hong Kong or Sydney.
We could not leave Argentina and Buenos Aires without seeing a tango show! So we spend an evening that began with a course of one hour of tango with the sequence of four steps of 6 or 8 times with gancho (movement of the lady's right leg between those of the gentleman) and turnstiles the lady in the arms of her man ... not so easy not to step on toes and avoid hitting the calves! Then a great dinner show with this watered red wine, a Syrah from the Mendoza region. The tango is a dance very sensual and crotch are impressive ...
One starts May 12 for Uruguay with a first stop in Colonia del Sur, 3 hours by boat from Buenos Aires across the Rio de la Plata.
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