Friday, 21 March 2008

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).







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