Day 81-82 Buenos Aires 2

In Buenos Aires there's one of the most famous bookstores in Argentina, the "Ateneo". It's a huge, old theater that was restaured and transformed into this...
It's really amazing!

After this visit we went to one of the most touristy places in Buenos Aires: Barrio la Boca. This place was very popular in the beginning of the XX century because of the "milongas", the places where the "porteños" (people from Buenos Aires) went to dance tango accompained by famous live tango singers like Gardel. Right now it's an open-air museum, with coloured houses, cafés and bars.

The most famous street is "caminito" which was also used in a famous song. Here this is the first house of the street and then Caro next to the lyrics of this song.

We had a regular meal in one of the tourist restaurants, but at least the music and the show was great! And we could take some "touristy" pictures with the dancers!

Day 79-80 Buenos Aires 1

We finally reached our final destination :-(

Fortunately, we kept the best for the end! Buenos Aires lives really up to its image. Montevideo is comparison looks like a village.

The question is: where to start?

The place looks so much like Paris, sometimes it's almost disturbing...

These are some views of 9 de Julio, the main avenue.

Here this is a view of the new tramway, it's the same model as in Montpellier!

Although, here there are some different habits than in Paris: people queue to get to the bus. And after work it can last hours....

Our first excursion in the city are the train stations. We really wanted to know how it looks like, as the train stations in all the continent are disused (except from some in Chile)

So we realised that it looks just like in Europe....

We then went on to "Puerto Madero" which is the old harbour, restored into a super promenade with great restaurant and feeling.

We continued into the centre to get to know the local architecture which is sometimes really imposing.

This is the seat of the government, the so-called "Casa Rosada" (Pink house).

Day 78 Colonia del Sacramento

Colonia is a small village from the XVII century which is very well preserved. It is just accross the bay from Buenos Aires and was built by the Portuguese to sell goods to Argentina.

It is a very touristy village for people from Montevideo and Buenos Aires, and is just a great place to relax.

We stayed in a very nice hostel which had free bikes so we could go on a tour to enjoy the beach side.

Appart from that, there is not much to do or see, but in the evening, the place is full of nice restaurant with live music.

In the night, we took a ferry to Buenos Aires, just 50 min away. It is one of the only transportation mean which we hadn't used to cross a border.