Day 2 in Buenos Aires

Right now it's about 4pm here in BA. Another beautiful day, about 30 degrees. This is such a big, busy city. Very similar to Vancouver but the architecture is European and there's much more traffic. The downtown core is closed to regular traffic during business hours. Buses and taxi cabs only. All parking is underneath the city as the streets are so narrow. There are subways and trains as well.

This morning we went to the hotel buffet for breakfast and then started our hike around the city. We walked past all sorts of museums, embassies and of course statues. They love their statues down here. And they're always of a guy on a horse. Different people (Pellegrini, San Martin, etc.) but they all look the same to me. Buenos Aires has a much different feel from Santa Fe. Here everything is much faster. We heard they siesta here but we don't see any evidence of it. Business people on cell phones, tourists, a few homeless but not as many as in Vancouver or Victoria. No horses and buggies here. But there's definitely traffic, and lots of it. Mostly taxi cabs. The exhaust fumes are terrible.

We walked past the waterfront and found a geocache (Mark's 400th find). Back to the hotel for a quick change and then walked the other direction to a Recoleta (shopping mall) and went to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. Walked back to the hotel and now everyone's upstairs having a siesta while I'm in the hotel lobby blogging :-).

Tonight we're taking a cab to an Italian restaurant on the water and hope to get some photos of Buenos Aires all lit up for the evening.