Argentina, Buenos Aires

This bustling city is full of AMAZING restaurants, winetasting, barlife and local tango milongas, artisan markets and colorful streetlife - I love this!!!

First about the restaurants, since the cuisines here a really worth the hype; I never usually eat red meat, but here I had to try some good old stake, since our Gap Adventure trip guide Marcela was explaining with such passion, how great the local meat food is, how I never after this will taste as good stuff…so I had to try, and YES - she had a point, make sure you ask locals the best restaurants and then it´s just culinary enjoyment. It´s a bit tought for vegetarians, but you´ll manage. We went to so many nice cafe´s too, one of them being Cafe Tortoni - worth going even if it has a reputation of being tourists favorite.

But Buenos Aires is also the city of Tango, so I decided to use my last evening taking tango class, learning the basics. I and other people from the friendly Milhouse hostel, which also helped to book this class, had so much fun trying to keep the sexy "tango face"…The evening was perfect and we saw a passionate tango show too. After trying the steps yourself, you really appreciate the beautiful moves of the professionals. And the music…the wine..the food…
I and my new Mexican-American friend Lupita went to see a local football game too by the Boca stadium, and that was a WILD experience, because the portenos love love love football, and they go loco seeing it. Samba drums made the beat for the audience to sing along and dance as the game went on…man, this was cool experience even if I´m not the biggest football fan.

I and Lupita made some explorations in the city in pouring rain by rented bikes. Our Brazilian-professional-bellydancer-guide showed the routes. Despite the rain, it was a cool way (as always with bikes) to see the city - recommend this to everyone, but just make sure you won´t get lost in wrong neighbourhoods because it can be dangerous too..

There´s plenty of bike rental places, with cheap guide services. Milhouse hostel helped us to get our trip. If I had stayed longer in the city, I´d rented my own bike. Cool places to see here are e.g. La Boca neighbourhood with artists selling crafts and the Recolleta cementary with Eva Perone´s grave. But then there´s the nightlife, great music, tango milongas…well, you just don´t want to go home from this Latin America´s New York.