Things To Do In Buenos Aires

[Travel Guru]

There are so many things to do in Buenos Aires. Of all the tropical vacation destinations in South America, Buenos Aires is probably our favorite because it is so easy to have fun there.

They value their European heritage highly--Italian and German names outnumber Spanish. This complex, energetic, and seductive port city, which stretches south-to-north along the Rio de la Plata, has been the gateway to Argentina for centuries. Portenos, as the multinational people of Buenos Aires are known, possess an elaborate and rich cultural identity. Buenos Aires' physical structure is a mosaic as varied and diverse as its culture. The city has no dominating monument, no natural monolith that serves as its focal point. Glass-sheathed skyscrapers cast their slender shadows on 19th century Victorian houses; tango bars hazed with the piquant tang of cigar smoke face dusty, treasure-filled antique shops across the way. Instead, Buenos Aires is composed of many small places, intimate details, and tiny events and interactions, each with a slightly different shade, shape, and character.

A typical day for a resident of Buenos Aires can be described as, "Like most other porteños (residents of Buenos Aires) I get up very late on Sunday morning - staying up until 05.00 on weekends is typical in this city-that-never-sleeps. A slow start at the local cafe is the order of the day, so I score a sunny sidewalk table and order a cafe cortado (coffee with milk) and some medialunas (croissants). Now energized, I grab my bike (I'm feeling suicidal enough to fight speeding taxis and buses today) and pedal to San Telmo. The crazy-popular antiques fair is happening, as it does every Sunday, and I dodge buskers, craft stalls and distracted tourists. I may as well enjoy my wheels, so I veer east to the Reserva Ecológical Costanera Sur and lay tracks down the dirt paths while checking out the Río de la Plata - the 'widest river in the world' (it's actually a delta). Filling my lungs with fresh air, I now point my bike northwards to Recoleta, stopping by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes for a glimpse of some of my favourite Impressionist paintings. The nearby Cemeterio de la Recoleta also beckons, and I follow the crowds to Evita's sarcophagus for more artsy shots. I wind my way past the crafts market outside, buy a home-made snack from a local vendor, and hop on my bike once more to cycle towards Palermo's parks, where a ring road is closed off to motor vehicles. It's stuffed full of everyone else, though, and I so I join the in-line skaters, four-passenger pedal bikes and joggers for an easy spin around the boat-filled lake. Then it's time for a pre-dinner drink, so I change into my sexiest outfit and join my friends at ultra-chic Casa Cruz. It's now time for some serious shopping, so I head southwards, barely come out of traffic-choked Plaza Italia alive, and cruise into Palermo Viejo. This is the place in BA to check out a plethora of designer clothing boutiques, novelty gift stores and fun houseware shops."

Our favorite museum in Buenos Aires is probably the Museo Fragata Presidente Sarmiento / Presidente Sarmiento Frigate Museum. This is frigate of war school , with more than one hundred years old.. Its, preserve the argentine martime tradition. Mondays to sundays from 9 AM to 9 PM. / Neighborhood: Puerto Madero, Alicia Moreau de Justo ave l 900 ( and Peron street ) – Dique 3 - Tel: +54 (11) 4342.9976.

We also love the Tortoni Coffee House (Café Tortoni): Avenida de Mayo 829. This Art Nouveau building was built in 1858, and it houses one of the oldest literary cafes in the city and where tango and jazz bands still play at night. Personalities such as Benito Quinquela Martín, Molina Campos, Raúl González Tuñón, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Baldomero Fernández Moreno, Roberto Arlt, José Ortega y Gasset among many others, have frequented this place.

Buenos Aires is a great European city in South America. You won't have a hard time finding things to do here!