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Day
13 (November 1, 2019) Buenos Aires
Before
This is an entire day in Buenos Aires to rest and
see what
is still missing from our list in the Argentinian capital city before
leaving the next day.
The plan for the first day was going to the furthest areas to make this
day as simple as possible. So, if that was accomplished by then what
would be left for this day would be a couple of strolls by hotel
nearby, like Recoleta cemetery.
The spots marked at map are:
0- Hotel Up
Recoleta
1- La Recoleta Cemetery
2- El Ateneo bookstore
3- Casa Rosada
4- Women's Bridge
5- Obelisco
6- Plaza Dorrego
7- Mafalda statue
8- Boca neighborhood (Caminito alley and Bombonera)
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After
We meet the sun still in Iguazu since we couldn’t
board
into our flight to Buenos Aires yesterday. Our new flight is at 2:10
PM, so we go to breakfast late and come back to our room. Our taxi
driver has been very surprised when I contacted him to agree on being
picked up at 11 AM to go to the airport, one more time.
We are at the airport very early to be sure we’ll
arrive
at Buenos Aires today. We need to go to the small new building in the
terminal for our flight, but access to boarding gates is not opened
yet. We buy some sandwiches to bring to the plane for our lunch and,
when they open it, wait in the room where the only boarding gate of
this building is.
Our flight leaves at the scheduled time and we can
see how
we’re leaving the jungle behind and, nearly two hours after that, the
Argentinian capital city appears.
 
Once at Jorge Newly airport we use the machines
available
to buy a ticket for the taxi to the hotel. We pay 252$ for it. We leave
the hotel soon, a few minutes before 5 PM, to go to La Recoleta
Cemetery nearby before they close it at 5:30 PM.
 
We walk by Avenue General Las Heras to reach the
cemetery.
The first sight we have of it is the domes of the highest mausoleums
appearing above the wall. We follow that wall to get the entrance.
 
We’re told there that they close at 5:15 PM, so we
only
have 5 minutes for the visit. Admission is free and, after a quick view
of the main path of this very peculiar small city of narrow streets, we
use Google Maps to go directly to Duarte family mausoleum for the most
popular grave here: Eva Peron’s.
 
When we arrive, we’re the only ones there but, for
some
reason, one minute later people appear generating a crow in front of
the mausoleum.
 
We keep exploring the cemetery while avoiding the
guards
that are looking for the visitors in the further places to tell they’re
closing. I think this daily procedure of going after the visitors is
the reason they’re saying they’re closing 15 minutes before the real
closure time.
   
When leaving we look for the shorted way to El
Ateneo book shop in our cell phone and follow it.
Once there we find the entrance part of the
building
façade is covered by scaffolding, but we’re coming to see the interior,
which looks like an old theatre, just like Colon. The stage is used as
a coffee shop. This book store is huge, and we buy some book we
couldn’t find until now.
 
Our visits are done with this, so we seat at the
terrace
of a bar nearby to see how it’s getting dark until we decide to go to
hotel.
We’ll go for dinner to an Italian restaurant just
across
the street that hotel staff has recommended to us: La Locanda. We both
order a fresh pasta course because we enjoyed yesterday’s dinner so
much. This is a bit more expensive, though.
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