Buenos Aires, Argentina

The food is amazing. Gets lots of Argentine Beef, good stuff. Also the people are amazing. Very open and friendly! You gotta love the Argentine accent!

One of the must see places in Buenos Aires is Recoleta semetary. It's not just an ordinary semetary because the graves have been put into these very small houses that have been built by their relatives. The houses usually go under ground where the coffin is laid and there can be several layers or storeys of coffins, even 7!! Think how deep they go!

What's really interesting is that Eva Peron is buried in this place. The pic here is from her grave.

Strange but true, there is a big zoo in the middle of Buenos Aires! The fee for the whole park is 44 pesos (~8€ per person) which is not much regarding how much animals the zoo consists of..

Fun part is that you can buy food for animals so that you can feed them yourself! You can also feed the sea dogs with fishes :) The most memorable animal were propably the baby alligators that can be also seen in the pic.

One of the zoos' tapirs made an unforgettable impression on me by first walking slowly past and then peeing on me with a huge pressure.. Nice.. It was good that I keep cleansing wipes with me :)

One of my favourite destinations: lot's of action, day trip possibilities, bood public transportation, affordable prices. Stay min 2 weeks and rent an apartment instead of a hotel room.

Rent an apartment instead of a hotel.

Club 69!! Crazy but fun club

I’ve really enjoyed studying in Buenos Aires. I just wish that I had longer than a week here! I feel that I’ve learned a lot considering the short amount of time. The course was really well structured, the teacher we’ve had was brilliant. She was really patient the whole time, very clear and encouraging. All the lessons were interesting and engaging and at just the right level to be challenging but not too difficult.

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Grand Hotel Argentino.

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It's very common that living in a big city everything tends to cost a bit more. Food, apartment, transportation and so on.. But when you're trying to live with little money, it's good to know a few things when visiting Buenos Aires. Transportation is quite cheap, especially with the underground. It costs only 1,1 pesos (1 € ~ 5,4 pesos) to travel even long ways. The only problem is that the underground network is not that good, there's only 6 lines in the city.

There's always expensive restaurants to eat in. But there's also many good quality restaurants with reasonable prices. You just need to walk from the bigger roads from the tourist places and wander there to find the real local restaurants :)

There was also this pasta place where I bought pasta to be cooked at home. They were so cute! Here's also a pic of it. It cost little over 10 pesos and it was enough for 2 people. But of course you can buy pasta at your nearby store. There's usually good varieties to choose from :)

If you want to travel outside Buenos Aires, the cheapest way to travel is propably the train. But you should buy the tickets in well advance. Especially during the summer holidays (january for example) the tickets can be sold out as early as 2 weeks before.

Other possibility is to travel by buss. The buss terminal is right next to the train station and it's one of the places where you really should hold on to your belongings. If you have a bag, keep it in front of you so you can see it all times. In case you're carrying a bag in your back, turn it around so you'll carry it in front of you on your chest. You're no stranger, many people do it as well :) There's lot of buss firms to choose from, depending on the destination of course. Go around the desks and ask for prices, there can be lot of variety in times and rates. You can usually choose from two different busses. There's semi cama (s/c) and cama (c/c). There's usually more services in c/c and the benches can be lowered down more than in s/c so you can sleep.

When buying the tickets be prepared that they don't take cards, I mean any cards. Me and my boyfriend were lucky since we had just taken some money out from the ATM :)

Did you know that you can order the grocery store to deliver the stuff you bought to your apartment? It's really handy especially at those times when you're buying lots of water or other heavy things. The price depends on the amount that you're buying from the store. If I remember it right, the highest rate is somewhere between 20-25 pesos (~4-5€) and it decreases if you're buying more.

A good souvenir to buy from Argentina is definitely different leather products. There's bags, jackets, cloves and so on.. But you should also know that there's also products sold as they are leather, but aren't. Give some special attention when buying stuff from the street.

As a girl I'm drawn to bag stores :) So it's not a surprise that I bought a bag from this trip. A good quality brand, products from Argentinean leather is Rossi & Caruso. The bags are a bit pricey but what you should really focus on is the quality, that's what you're paying for :) If you can't get a tax free coupon from the store it's worth while to ask if they can discount the purchase at the same time.

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Trips worth considering are the ones where you get to visit the vineyards. There's many areas in Argentina where you can visit them and get to know the accurate process of wine making. You can either participate to a group trip or just call the vineyard yourself.

Recoleta cemetry is fascinating!

Learn Spanish at Spanish School Expanish in Buenos Aires. They do crash courses so you can learn the basics and how to get by

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If you are visiting Buenos Aires, DEFINITELY visit Tigre. You can take a train (takes just less than 1 hour) and find yourself in a quaint river town. Take the river boat tour to see a lovely change from the urban buzz of Buenos Aires. Little houses and docks dot the river banks and you can get out and do some real exploring. We were there in February (Argentinian summer) and we saw so many beautiful flowers and magical places in the jungle-like environment. Also, you have to try Fruitlandia Fruit Juices. You can buy one in the plaza near where you board the boats.

Fun plaza for relazing and people watching. Great shopping in the area.

The place to visit on sundays. Marketplace for antiques and whatever. Tango dancers.

On of my favorite restaurants. Great casual modern Argentinean food.