Buenos Aires Attractions

"I will return and I will be millions."

Advantages: a fabulous district to visit
Disadvantages: all tourists agree

...barrios for visitors is exclusive Recoleta, a thoroughly well-heeled area which fronts onto the Rio Plata. Porteños, the residents of Buenos Aires, seem to have three great passions in life - tango, football and Evita, and it is in this district, in the vast Recoleta Cemetery, that the remains of Eva Peron found their final resting place. For many people Evita is the only reason to visit Recoleta, for some the only reason to visit Buenos Aries. The ...
...the smart streets of nearby Recoleta, are most simply navigated on foot. Alternatively, all organized city tours tend to terminate outside the cemetery, due to its status as the number one tourist site in the city, and also the high concentration of quality cafés and restaurants nearby. THE CEMETERY Since its establishment in 1822, an estimated 350,000 people have been interred at La Recoleta Cemetery. The name Recoleta derives from the meditation ...

VC81 09.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Recoleta, Buenos Aires

walking tour with CICERONES

Advantages: amazing old town feeling
Disadvantages: some areas not the best at night

Instead of doing the touristy San Telmo sunday fair, see this amazing neighborhood with someone who actually lives there!!! I had the great fortune of finding CICERONES, a non-profit organization that matches visitors with local residents who volunteer with Cicerones as tour guides. If you want a walking tour of San Telmo, or any neighborhood, just contact them on their website (www.cicerones.org.ar) and you will get matched up with a porteño (local ...
...incredibly friendly, outgoing, and super knowledgeable! Everyone knows the best way to get to know a city is to see it with someone who lives there. You not only get a more authentic view of Buenos Aires, learning about the city's hidden treasures, but you also get a completely personalized tour. It´s also FREE! Because it is a non-profit the guides are volunteers and the service is completely free. www.cicerones.org.ar ...

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Review of San Telmo, Buenos Aires

The oldest cafe in the Paris of South America

Advantages: Good food, lots of history, lovely setting, easy access
Disadvantages: Very touristy. Food quality a bit inconsistent for the price

...Tacuari and Piedras. This beautiful cafe is easily accessible from the subte (underground) stations of both 'Plaza Mayo' and 'Av. de 9 Julio'. It's location make it perfect as a lunch stop following sight seeing in La Boca, San Telmo or around Plaza Mayo. If you are further afield, take the subte or any of the numerous buses thatl pass it- just ask locals,as listing all of them would take all day. HISTORY: Established in 1858, Cafe Tortoni is the ...
...visit and one of them is the fact that many famous bohemians used it as their regular haunt. This includes Carlos Gardel, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges and Benito Quinquela Martín. Yet there are many more reasons than just that MY IMPRESSION: Tortoni is beautiful. As you entre, old fashioned waiters rush around fulfilling orders. What strikes you is how much of it has remained in it's original stile. With high ceilings supported by mahogany ...

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Review of Cafe Tortoni, Buenos Aires

La Boca- the colourful tourist trap

Advantages: Colourful, full of souvenir shops, touristy
Disadvantages: Part worth seeing is v. small. Tourist trap

...bus from Plaza Mayor towards La Boca. Make sure you get the right one as there are more than one 86s. Other buses also go there including the 23 and the 64. Please check with the bus guide. The 86 does not take you all the way to Caminito so I had to walk about 8 blocks to reach it (remember a map is ALWAYS handy). What struck me initially was the poverty in the area. The houses were grey and drab and the people simply clothed. La Boca is an area ...
...in the heart of the La Boca neighborhood. Once a poor living area now it is a typical tourist spot.The colorful houses were very pretty but somehow a complete FARCE following the poverty I'd witnessed getting to it.. Next to Caminito there is an open air market for sculptures, artwork and handicrafts. The only shops lining the street are cheap souvenir shops selling the usual tourist gear - T-shirts, cups, etc. plus tango tapes and CDs. Walking around ...

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Review of La Boca, Buenos Aires

If you only do one thing in BsAs, make it this

Advantages: Must see site with great tour and super cafe, cheap performances
Disadvantages: You can't take photos inside, tours only run twice a day

In a five day visit to BsAs this was definitely the highlight. Location It is easy to get to, located just off the main street that runs through BsAs Tour I took the English language tour which costs the equivalent of about 2 pounds and lasts for an hour. The tour group was about 12 people and we went through the main auditorium, around the boxes and down to a maze of caverns and rehearsal rooms underground. The guides were excellent, answering ...
...tour. The only minus is that you can't take photos. Cafe On the ground level of the theatre there is a small cafe which serves cake, sandwiches and coffees. It is complete with a piano and when I was there one of the waitresses gave an inpromptu singing performance, amazing! Performances The performances occur most nights and you can buy tickets in teh box office on the ground floor. The tickets are a fraction of the price you would pay to see the ...

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Review of Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires