On Wednesday, we took the Buquebus monopoly ferry from Colonia to Buenos Aires. The one hour ride on the fast ferry cost a pricy 105 pesos, or about US$35.
Buenos Aires is a very big city – about 11 million people live in the city proper and the metropolitan region has almost 16 million. The city feels more congested and compact than São Paulo even though the latter is larger. In the evening we walked around the chic Palermo neighborhood and ate Mexican food (it has been more than three months).
I spent the first full day in Buenos Aires visiting some of the favorite places of my departing travel partner. We went to a very tasty bakery in the Belgrano neighborhood near her university and then ate the pastries in the 3 de Febrero park. Buenos Aires has lots of dog walkers, and I am happy to report that the (rich) residents of Buenos Aires have very good taste in dogs – lots of labs, retrievers, and German shepherds, and few if any yippy small dogs. At night we went to a Morrocan restaurant where I had an appetizer, an entree, dessert, coffee and a bottle of Malbec for less than US$25.
Buenos Aires is a very big city – about 11 million people live in the city proper and the metropolitan region has almost 16 million. The city feels more congested and compact than São Paulo even though the latter is larger. In the evening we walked around the chic Palermo neighborhood and ate Mexican food (it has been more than three months).
I spent the first full day in Buenos Aires visiting some of the favorite places of my departing travel partner. We went to a very tasty bakery in the Belgrano neighborhood near her university and then ate the pastries in the 3 de Febrero park. Buenos Aires has lots of dog walkers, and I am happy to report that the (rich) residents of Buenos Aires have very good taste in dogs – lots of labs, retrievers, and German shepherds, and few if any yippy small dogs. At night we went to a Morrocan restaurant where I had an appetizer, an entree, dessert, coffee and a bottle of Malbec for less than US$25.
Fountain on Libertador
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