Buenos Aires - Icaro Suites
We woke up to a hot Sunday in Buenos Aires and decided to do something that in all our travels we had never done before - take one of those hop on, hop off double decker tourist buses. We first disembarked at Caminito in La Boca, the well known brightly painted section of town. It is quite a small area of only a couple of blocks and obviously all about the tourists. It was full of tourist shops, restaurants with tango dancers out the front and tourist stalls. It didn't take us long to decide we had seen enough and time to jump on the bus again, M tried to persuade K to demonstrate her tango skills but without success.
Next stop was the Puerto Madero which was a very new area quite like our Docklands in Melbourne - new buildings, expensive restaurants, and very quiet. After lunch and a long wait for the next bus we headed to Recoleta for our next stop. It was very busy with a weekend crafts market and by now the temperature had soared. After taking in the second oldest church in Buenos Aires we found the famous Recoleta cemetery - there aren't many cities in the world where the number one tourist attraction is the local cemetery! However this isn't any normal cemetery, as well as being the place where Eva Peron is buried it is a still working cemetery with amazing, massive, ornate mausoleums.
Then back on the bus to complete the circuit, this managed to take up the whole day. As it was Sunday the city was very quiet all day, nearly everything was closed and there was hardly any traffic. We had read that no one goes out for dinner before 8.30pm so we headed back to the hotel for a while, however jet lag caught up with us and the next thing we knew it was morning, that Argentinian steak will have to wait another night!
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