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Buenos Aires
Argentina
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Buenos Aires
After more than three months on the road (15 000 km), I was glad to stop here for three weeks before my flight back home. I first took a room in the Hotel O'Rei on the crowded but interesting pedestrian Lavalle street but climbing up the stairs was hard on my knee so I changed to the King's Hotel, on Corrientes near Florida, where I enjoyed the luxury of an elevator.
This is looking west on Corrientes towards the Obelisk that you can barely distinguish in the distance. Below, two shots from my 12th floor window, looking east towards the Rio Plata and looking west towards the Obelisk.
It was a great location, in the center of the action and not far from subway stations.
I met a lot of people I had been corresponding with on the Internet but did not take pictures of all of them so let me show you a few more landmarks to add to those on the first page of this trip.
This is the elaborate Teatro Colon built in 1908, a world class opera, ballet and concert hall seating 2500 spectators in classic elegance of which porteńos (residents of Bs. As.), are justly proud.
Across Plaza Lavalle from Teatro Colon is the impressive Palacio de Tribunales, the country's supreme court.
North-east of the Teatro Colon at the northern end of pedestrian Florida street, is a quiet park with this monument to "El Libertador General San Martin" and the "Torre de los Ingleses" in the background next to the Retiro train station.
Moving north-west from the Retiro area along the Avenida del Libertador, we cross the fashionable Recoleta, Palermo, Belgrano and Nuńez barrios on the way to the elite suburb of Vincente Lopez.
The modern sculpture in the UN park on the left below is in Recoleta and the "Monumento de Los Espańoles" on the right is in Palermo.
Thanks to the Internet I had made the acquaintance of Mirta Lidia Schefini de Trefiletti who invited me to
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See photographs from:
Argentina Gallery
