views from the bus, towards mendoza
a sure sign of boredom
tango at "la ventana" in san telmo
foot move ------ accordeon experts
the main plaza by night ------------------ and day
a strange looking mobile book shop -----------------from our balcony
the market in san telmo ---------------- musicians in the streets. a sunday regular
an antique building in san telmo ---------- seb living it up
la boca area
seb and the boca junior team
thumbs up from maradona (thanks buddy, i hear you)
el caminito area
la recoleta cementary, where evita peron is buried
graves in one of the housetombs
empenadas heaven
nat and her blood sausage -------------- seb and his chunk of beef
puerto madero
some grafitti
the bus trip on the way back to santiago (argentinian pampa)
mendoza wineyards by bus (w andes in the background)-- the argentinian/ chilean border
Cette petite escapade a Buenos Aires valait vraiment le détour. La ville est très étendue et ressemble beaucoup à Paris par certains aspects. Chaque quartier a sa spécificité :
San Telmo avec ses rues pavées, sa vie bohème, ses artistes de rues et ses magasins d'antiquité ressemble a Montmartre.
Palermo avec ses restaurants de parillas (barbecue argentin) excellents et ses bars un peu plus classe, et ses espaces verts
La Boca et son stade mytique jaune et bleu (ou jouent les boca juniors) ainsi que son quartier du caminito (quartier ou les artistes ont repris possession des lieux, les facades sont colorées et du tango est joué partout dans la rue, d'ailleurs le nom du caminito provient d'un célèbre tango!)
Outre les énormes festins essentiellement à base de steaks, on assiste à une représentation de Tango mémorable à la Ventana. Cette danse est vraiment superbe, c'est la grande classe. Les danseurs suivent le rythme des accordéons et les petits pas a grande vitesse, les portés, les envolées sont spectaculaires (cf la petite vidéo)
Enfin, on a pu retrouver nos deux amis belges Nat et Morgan, eux aussi en tour du monde, et qu'on avait rencontré en Bolivie et avec qui on a partagé plusieurs apéros dinatoires dans la ville.
et aussi, petit numéro de boules de cire sur fond musical péruvien:
what a wonderful city buenos aires is...and especially after 20 hours of bus...and no wonder!! i think arriving on a sunday was a good idea too (not that we had much of a choice considering the amount of time we had left) as there was the weekly antique street market in the area of san telmo. for me, it was absolutely wonderful although seb, i felt, was dying a slow death so i had to speed up the dwarling process to the maximum.
we explored the surrounding areas which was nice as each was really different. la boca was a favourite, along with san telmo (of course), as even though it was a tad too touristy, there was a vibe. the houses were painted bright colours and the tango was being played and danced in front of almost every restaurant. unfortunately, it was not all hunky dory as on our way back to the centre of town, we were stopped by a three-year old warning us not to walk any further as we would get robbed if we did. not really listening to the kid, we continued walking until the mother, we presume, bellowed from her window for us to turn back. with that said, we walked extremely fast to the closest bus stop. as luck would have it, we could only pay for our tickets by a machine that took only coins and of course, we didn't have any... a long story short, we rode for free -
we also met up with the morgan and nat, with whom we spent a few days on the salt flats in bolivia which was mighty festive. we had apéros on our balcony and dinners in many a meaty restaurant (i was lucky enough to find meatless gnocchi almost everywhere).
on our last evening there, we treated ourselves to a live tango show at la ventana which was worth every dollar (indeed, it was somewhat pricey). whilst we sipped play-play champagne (we all know where the real macoy is produced), we watched the dancers do their stuff.
just as quickly as we'd arrived, we were off again - back to chile but this time, valparaiso. one of the most beautiful cities in chile.
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