Buenos Aires - The Facts

With nearly 3 million inhabitants in the city proper and about 13 million in the metropolitan area, a third of all Argentines live here! The capital is divided into 48 districts and lies at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, the estuary of the rivers Parana and Rio Uruguay.

Our short visit

We saw our 2 night flying visit to meet with mixed feelings. Of course, a trip to Argentina is not complete without the capital Buenos Aires to visit, but teeming pickpockets etc. so we have ergiffen certain security measures and, for example, remained the great camera and all credit cards and other valuables in the hostel.

But we were lucky and our visit coincided with the only introduced in the same year holidays together, so that the otherwise bustling city was almost deserted, no traffic, no harried workers and many closed shops.

Der Buenos Aires Bus

The Buenos Aires Bus a typical hop on hop off bus seemed like the perfect solution to as many impressions in a little time to get.

In a very pleasant way we were driven so over 3 hours through the city and were able to take a closer look at the most interesting sights throw.

Buenos Aires Must See

The Cemetery in the Recoleta district is probably unique in the world. Here were many famous Argentines such as President and stars their final resting place, is very often visited the grave of Evita Peron.

One of the landmarks of Buenos Aires is the Obelisk, of one of the widest avenues in the world, the Avenida 9 de Julio ziehrt.

The Plaza de Mayo houses some interesting buildings all around and is always the scene of numerous demonstrations and protests, because here also the Pink House, the President's seat is to be found.

The Theater Colon is according to the Sydney Opera House, the second largest theater in the southern hemisphere.

Most guide books recommend the visit of the district of La Boca for security reasons. Especially the area around the famous stadium La Bombonera Football Club Diego Maradona, Boca Juniors is particularly dangerous. We visited it without leaving them only with the tourist bus.

El Caminito within the same district is the oldest pedestrian street in the world and boasts a colorful houses. Earlier immigrants were housed here in this district and because they had no money to stroke their homes, color was used which remained from the painting of ships.

The Floralis Generica is a sculpture in the form of flowers which can be closed depending on the time of day or lit up with different colors.

The teueste and most modern area of ​​Buenos Aires is undoubtedly Madero Port, the former port where the brick buildings have been converted into luxury lofts and countless hotels and skyscrapers arose.