After all the buses and camping and moving around we had been doing all through Patagonia, we decided to spend about two weeks in Buenos Aires to relax, plan out the rest of our trip and explore enough of the city to feel like we actually lived it, instead of just touring it.
We decided that the most cost effective way to stay in Buenos Aires would be to rent an apartment. While in Pucon earlier in the trip, we learned (through a fellow traveller) of a website called airbnb.com, where you can view and rent apartments pretty easily. After our 48 hour bus trip into Buenos Aires, we stayed at a hotel for a few days, and literally booked our apartment from there 1 day before “moving in” for 2 weeks. It was an amazing place, had everything we needed and then some, and was close to everything that we had planned to visit on our trip, as well as being 1 block from the subway!
View from our porch
Other pictures from around the Palermo/ Olleros neighborhood where we stayed:
We went on a walking tour of the city to try and get a little history…
The ‘Casa Rosa’… Argentina’s equivalent of the White House.
The balcony where Eva Peron gave her famous speeches to the public.
Congress building:
As our tour guide told us, “No, that’s not a guy eating a sandwich… it’s a mural of Eva Peron speaking into a microphone!”
One thing we really came to enjoy about where we stayed in Buenos Aires was its location to many public parks:
The Rose Garden
Japanese Gardens
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