One Week in Buenos Aires and the Mighty Iguazu Falls, Buenos Aires, Argentina

We arrived to freezing Buenos Aires and eventually managed to find the subway system after a couple of false starts and confusion over all of the other different types of trains.

We found our little hostel, outside the tourist zone, and left our bags there before going in search of coffee. The friendly guy working at the hostel recommended a cute little place nearby which had lovely coffee and great pastries.

We were still feeling pretty tired from the night bus (you never really get used to them) but decided because it was such a nice sunny day that we would visit the Recoleta Barrio, the glitzy part of BA with a world famous cemetery which holds Eva Peron’s tomb.

It has a weird set up and it is hard to tell where Recoleta starts and finishes. Apparently it is the area around the cemetery which has some nice parks but not much else that we could see.

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is also in Recoleta but unfortunately it wasn’t open yet when we got there.

The cemetery was very beautiful and reminded me of Pere Lachaise in Paris, a mini city of the dead with elaborate and expensive tombs that looked like little houses (some the size of actual houses); the last ostentatious act of the ridiculously moneyed. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).