We arrived early in the morning, but it took some time to transfer to the city from airport. We got to our accommodation at 11am and went to bed to catch some sleep after night flight from Lima.

Afternoon we went to city tour with (will be updated when Zuzka returns and tells me the name, I don't have it in my notes). It felt like a private tour because we were only 2 visitors. Well, not only 2 of us, there was also a guide and a driver of air conditioned micro bus. The guide was very knowledgeable, interested in history (he teaches it at university) and whole experience was very good.

Plaza de Mayo

Our first stop was at Plaza de Mayo. The guide talked a lot about dictators, oppression and missing people. But fortunately, the plaza was very nice, so my memories are not only about sad history of Argentina.

Then we got back into bus and went to see Obelisk of Buenos Aires. We did not stop, just passed along it on wide avenue and went to La Boca.

Caminito

We have seen La Boca mostly from bus. I liked it's serene streets with the oldest buildings in Buenos Aires (also built over previous demolished colonial buildings). They were much better than busy avenues we just left or dirty streets of district our hostel was at.

We stopped in Caminito, favourite tourist area. It is just small area, but it is full of restaurants, tango dancers and painters selling their works. Plus all buildings are brightly painted. That was done in 50's by a painter Benito Quinquela Martín.

We looked around only for 15min so we could not taste food and atmosphere around. Apart from this area La Boca is not safe for tourists especially at night. But during a day and inside air conditioned bus we felt pretty safe :-)

To the north

Rich people used to live in southern parts of the city, but they moved to north after outbreak of yellow fever at the end of 19th century.

We went around, but we had only 2 short stops. Following photos are just random snapshots. I regret I did not ask the guide to stop at some place with nice panorama of modern city. I just expected it will happen until it was too late.

Steel Flower - Floralis Generica.

Recoleta cemetery

Our last stop was at famous cemetery. The mayor of Buenos Aires got a very good idea in the past - to sell land of cemetery to rich people who started to compete which family will build more pompous tomb.

It has many streets, with small plazas. Most of tombs are really interesting. Many famous people are resting there, one of most known is Eva Perón. There was a small crowd next to her tomb.

And that was end of our tour. We got pretty nice overview, but it would be nice to spend there more time. We asked a guide to take us somewhere near metro station instead of returning to place we started from, because it was a bit inconvenient for us. BTW I like metro in Buenos Aires. Pretty good (being the first in South America) and cheap (most of metros in South American cities are pretty cheap).

It was time to eat something and then take some rest, because we were tired. We are flying to Iguazu Falls tomorrow!