BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
I got up early this AM and watched the ship sailing into the harbour and dock. This is a massive city, 3 million directly in the city and another 10 mill in the suburbs.We were booked on an all day tour today through the city. The first visit was to the Cemetery to visit the grave of Eva Peron (Evita) This cemetery is like a city with small houses (Chapels). It is quite the tourist attraction. After this visit we zig zagged through the city for various photo opportunities. We stopped at the la Boca neighbourhood for a 1/2hr stroll and look at all the coloured houses. Drove by the famous Boca Juniors soccer stadium. For lunch we were taken to an Argentinian restaurant where we were being served a great meal followed by an hr long Tango show, that was fantastic. After this lunch we drove by a few other neighbourhoods. We made it back to the ship by 5pm. We were so tired, we had to take a nap before carrying on for the night. We didn’t do much for dinner as we were still full from lunch. For the night there was an local Argentinian show performance in the ship theatre. Very good show by the way. If I look back on the City visit today, it is a very big city with a lot of old buildings. The traffic infrastructure looks pretty good. There are a lot of green spaces in the city. These spaces are being well used by joggers, bikers and family’s walking. We were warned before going of the ship by the staff to be very carefull out there, and be aware all the time of pickpocketers and muggers. Don’t show any jewelry, watches and expensive camera’s. As it was, we heared of a few people getting mugged and their stuff stolen. We also had new passengers coming on board today for the Amazon portion of the trip. For tomorrow we have another day in this port.
Cheers
“South America” “Buenos Aires” “Cruising”
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