Buenos Aires
Location Description
124 photos
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Some cool vintage travel posters in our hostel in Buenos Aires.
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Home sweet home!
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Some really, really good yogurt I wish they sold in the...
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Doing a little shopping on Avendida Florida. We were...
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Buenos Aires ice cream and gelato is famously good. ...
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I was very excited about this ice cream. The best type...
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Homer Simpson poster spotted on Calle Florida.
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Jay and I go to see the Pink Palace of Evita fame.
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Pink palace up close. Sadly not open to the public as it...
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Cool statue in the light.
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Guards of the Casa Rosada.
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It was a hot afternoon.
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Jay taking a breather in the afternoon heat.
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Sadly don't remember who this guy was. West of the Casa Rosada.
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Jay and I spent the twilight hours roaming the...
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Simpsons garden gnomes! There were so many interesting...
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Che Guevara chucks. Nice.
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Havana Club rum. Not going to find that in the States.
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Dead animal parts in a market in San Telmo.
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Church in San Telmo.
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Jay looking at a church in San Telmo.
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Just looked like a yummy cafeteria.
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Imprisoned poodle. Spotted in San Telmo.
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Typical Buenos Aires street scene. Rough around the...
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Hanging out near the Obelisco on Avendida 26 de Mayo,...
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Cute Reebok commercial featuring a play on Buenos Aires gelato.
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Jay hanging out by the obelisco.
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The obelisco at night.
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John in front of the obelisco at night.
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Dinner at a vegetarian organic restaurant in Palermo. ...
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Elevator shaft in our hostel.
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Jay, on the streets of Buenos Aires.
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Jay, hanging out in the Buenos Aires subway, one of the...
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Jay in the Buenos Aires subway.
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Jay at the Evita museum in Buenos Aires' exclusive...
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I really liked this pantry in the Evita museum.
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Everything is labeled, even Yerba, for Yerba Mate, the...
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Photograph of refrigerators being built in a factory in...
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Jay and I get lunch after a long morning of museum-ing.
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Close up of our pie. Really decent pizza.
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And next we went to go get ice cream.
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Who would have thought Blockbuster would be a thing, in...
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Ice cream at Persicco.
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Jay, in sweet rapture.
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Jay had actually said he didn't want ice cream before we...
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Yay for creamy sugary treats made from dulce.
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Uh oh I hope it's not getting in my beard!
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Ingenious! Persicco even installed sinks along one wall...
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Ice cream delivery scooters. Apparently if you want an...
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Bizarre Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina...
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The feeling of disrepair at the library was made to feel...
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Snack time!
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This guy doesn't look like he misses many meals!
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Next stop was the Cementerio de la Recoleta, an amazing...
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Strange to see so many well kept up mausoleums as well...
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Jay surveying the surroundings at Cementerio de la Recoleta.
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Creepy glass window covered with cobwebs on the front...
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Cemeteries are creepy!
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Self portrait in a mirror of a mausoleum.
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There were lots of creepy spooky photograph opportunities here.
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Pretty fancy!
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Yep, there are dead people inside those. Way creepier...
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Jay, wandering the grounds.
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Architecturally, this cemetery was a bit of a hodgepodge.
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Jay, looking at some dead people.
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I think Jay liked this particular mausoleum.
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The symbolism is overwhelming.
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Many of the grave sites had fallen into disrepair.
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Crazy wrought iron wreath.
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Jay photographing something or another.
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Pretty great bronze door.
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This guy had an even better beard than me!
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I wonder what the blue glass is for.
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This translates as "I shall not completely die" and is...
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Stairs with dead people at the bottom.
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A lot of the mausoleums were just fasçades with nothing...
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Lots of coffins.
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Cool window shape.
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Jay, taking a breather, with Buenos Aires' Recoleto in...
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Some mausoleums even had wildflowers growing out of...
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This place was big. At this point, we wanted to just...
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This crumbling tenement seemed out of place in this...
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Finally we find Evita's grave. Not surprisingly it was...
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Close up of several of the plaques on Evita's mausoleum....
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Another cool skull and crossbones, or cross half-bones.
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Crowd milling around Evita's grave.
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Neat cypress trees, that symbolize the spirit rising to...
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Very Tim Burton-esque statue.
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Jay, taking a breather. We've seen about as much as we...
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Neat statues.
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This was a fun place to take pictures. It would have...
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Another cool view of these same statues.
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More rows of graves.
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After leaving the cemetery, Jay and I took a long walk...
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Next we passed by this enormous sculpture called...
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Wow, my beard used to be so big.
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Floralis Genérica as we start to lose sunlight. ...
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Funny looking tropical bird sitting on the edge of...
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Bird flying around in the giant flower.
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If you look closely, you can see our reflection in...
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Jay and I walked by Canal Siete (Channel 7) one of the...
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Finally, we arrived at MALBA. Outside MALBA was a neat...
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Some non-latin American art in MALBA. Picture...
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Flash forward to 3am or so that same night: after a nap,...
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John and Jay with the Buenos Aires school teachers that...
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Jay and I had planned to stay until things wound down...
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Even turning on the fluorescent lights didn't help to...
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This couple was very talented, and good looking.
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After hailing a cab back to our hostel and getting a...
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Not to be defeated by the rain, we ducked into a Havanna...
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Cue sad trombone tone. Patagonia is ony open from 10-1...
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It was a rainy, rainy afternoon.
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More pictures of Jay in the rain.
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Here was a memorial to the Fauklands War with the U.K....
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Some tower near the Retiro train station, that was...
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Jay and I were both about to fall on our noses from...
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And enjoy he did.
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Jay looks hungry!
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A couple seated near us ordered a parrillada para dos,...
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Jay doesn't like onions so this was my doing only. Wow,...
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Buenos Aires washed bright and shiny by the rain.
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Boarding our flight to Ushuaia. It's a 4+ hour flight...
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It was a brand new good looking Boeing 737.
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Jay and I settle into our beautiful brand-new...