I spent my first day in Buenos Aires exploring on my own. The first photo shows the famous cemetery in Buenos Aires – The La Recoleta Cemetery – where Eva Peron and other either famous and/or fabulously wealthy are buried. These crypts house the dead, some above ground, some below, and it is jammed pack – with dead and tourists.
The second photo was taken at the Teatro Colon, the famous theater in Buenos Aires, where I spent US$85 (!) for a front-row orchestra seat to the opera.
What visit to Buenos Aires would be worth it without the tango? These two were demonstrating and busking outside a local restaurant.
I spent a day walking around Buenos Aires, and came across a few examples of these larger than life-size paintings on the sides of buildings. Great fun.
A&K offered a few day trips from Buenos Aires; I opted for a trip to the Argentine Pampas region and a visit to La Bamba de Areco, one of the oldest estancras (ranches) in Argentina. We got to see a cowboy and riding demonstration – amazing stuff – and where I captured this mate thermos and mug.
The day after, the entire A&K tour group caught a charter flight from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia, at the southern tip of Argentina and the capital of Tierra del Fuego Province. It’s the southernmost city in the world; this would be our take-off point for our cruise to Antarctica. After landing, we headed off to a local hotel for lunch, where I caught this pic of me and the Martial Mountain Range in the distance. After lunch, we headed for our ship.
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