Argentina

19 July 2009, Buenos Aires: Elan arrived on July, 19th at Buenos Aires airport.

During her three-weeks-stay we'll discover Buenos Aires, colonial cities and the hinterland of Uruguay, German south Brazil and the waterfalls in Iguacu as well as Jesuit estates in northeast Argentina. I hope that we'll manage to spend some time in places in Brazil where I have been in 1996 already.

Photo: Elan and Fabian on a boat to Uruguay, Rio Plata, Arg.

 

15 July 2009, Buenos Aires: Finally, I arrived in South America - two months later than expected.

Buenos Aires is a huge city with a population of about 13 million - four times the total of New Zealand and half of the whole of Australia. But it's easy enough to get around on foot. I stay in San Telmo with its cobbled streets and aging mansions, a 15-minute walk from the city centre, Microcentro. I already walked around the blocks and paid my respects to a few sights like the Casa Rosada with its famous balcony from where Evita energized adoring crowds during her heyday in the 1940s. Nearby is the neoclassic Catedral Metropolitana where national hero and liberator Jose de San Martin is buried.
Photo: Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires, Argentina

At the same time I am busy figuring out where to go next. It'll probably be Uruguay - Southern Brazil - Paraguay and back to Argentina for the next four weeks.

 

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