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Buenos Aires Travel Guide: Reviews, photos, & videos
Buenos Aires, the glamorous capital of Argentina, is like an old-world cocktail with contemporary twist. Restrained and elegant on the surface, but underneath boils an unrelenting, sexy energy. It’s a beautiful city of broad, tree-lined avenues, neoclassical buildings, outdoor cafés, and a night life that just won’t stop. A wobbly economy has made Buenos Aires very affordable for travelers, but well-dressed porteños, as the residents of Buenos Aires are known, know how to keep up the good life even when the economy is down. Stroll the tree-lined boulevards of the upscale neighborhood of Recoleta and stop by the neighborhood cemetery where Evita is buried among marble angles and massive granite mausoleums.
Walk the historic Avenida de Mayo, designed to rival Paris' Champs Elysées. Shop for leather goods in stores with neoclassical facades in Palermo, and wander around the neighborhood’s leafy parks. Hunt for antique gaucho gear at the Sunday antique market in San Telmo. Get to the heart of Argentina by taking a tango lesson or enjoy the fiery dance at a traditional, 1930s-style milonga (tango salon). Or catch a fútbol (soccer) game—tango and fútbol are equally close to the heart and soul of Argentina. Dine on bife de lomo or bife de chorozo—hefty steaks from the Pampas, the fertile plains of the Argentine heartland—at 11 o’clock at night, then dance the night away at one of the city’s many clubs.
