We are in BA and all of our luggage is too!! We arrived on time after a 10 hour flight. Managed to get about 4 hours of sleep on the plane, but our seats were right in front of a toilet and so we could hear those quiet flushes all night long.
We had a few moments worry when there seemed to be no new bags on the carousel and ours were not there yet. Fortunately they started putting more out and our bags were there, right next to each other! Made it through customs, everyone's luggage gets x-rayed? Then out the door to find our driver. Again, no problem! Andrea, the bilingual guide was there to meet us and take us to our car. There was not a lot for her to do as we were in a bit of a brainfog, but we will get to see her again tomorrow when we go to an Estancia.
Traffic was good and we were at our hotel within a half hour. We are staying at the Savoy Golden Tulip or Golden Tulip Savoy. The room is great, plenty of space for us and wonder of wonders- in room WIFI. The room was ready, so we were able to check in at 9:30 AM. Linnea is asleep beside me and I am going to try and nap as well.
The iPhone alarm is set to wake us up at 12 so we can have lunch before we go on a tour of the city.
I will report back here later, hopefully with photos!
After a nice lunch in the hotel restaurant, we headed out on our City Tour. There were 5 other Americans on our tour including one couple who was just finishing 25 days of travel in South America and a family of three who also just arrived this AM.
Since we had decided not to bring our umbrellas, it decided to rain pretty hard at the first place we stopped! Our guide, Lucia, was a wealth of historical information and we saw the pink palace, the Camenita, the Recoleta, and several different parts of the city.
Buenos Aires reminds my partly of a European city- lots of big apartment blocks, main streets filled with shops. It also reminds me of Mexico- the poorer parts of town are just kind of cobbled together in a hodge podge way. I was not able to get any pictures of the poorer parts of town, we seemed to just pass them on our way elsewhere.
Two interesting stops were the Camenita, a colorful area where artists hang out and the Recoleta, a graveyard. The Camenita is interesting because the tradition of the houses being colorful comes from when the area was a port area. The people would paint their houses with the left over paint from painting the ships.
The Recoleta was a city of the dead. It is filled with crypts and vaults and cats! Many of the crypts you could peek into and it was very interesting. Some were well cared for, some looked like they had not seen a human hand in years, make that generations.
We enjoyed our day but we are tired, now we have to try and stay awake until
We had a few moments worry when there seemed to be no new bags on the carousel and ours were not there yet. Fortunately they started putting more out and our bags were there, right next to each other! Made it through customs, everyone's luggage gets x-rayed? Then out the door to find our driver. Again, no problem! Andrea, the bilingual guide was there to meet us and take us to our car. There was not a lot for her to do as we were in a bit of a brainfog, but we will get to see her again tomorrow when we go to an Estancia.
Traffic was good and we were at our hotel within a half hour. We are staying at the Savoy Golden Tulip or Golden Tulip Savoy. The room is great, plenty of space for us and wonder of wonders- in room WIFI. The room was ready, so we were able to check in at 9:30 AM. Linnea is asleep beside me and I am going to try and nap as well.
The iPhone alarm is set to wake us up at 12 so we can have lunch before we go on a tour of the city.
I will report back here later, hopefully with photos!
After a nice lunch in the hotel restaurant, we headed out on our City Tour. There were 5 other Americans on our tour including one couple who was just finishing 25 days of travel in South America and a family of three who also just arrived this AM.
Since we had decided not to bring our umbrellas, it decided to rain pretty hard at the first place we stopped! Our guide, Lucia, was a wealth of historical information and we saw the pink palace, the Camenita, the Recoleta, and several different parts of the city.
Buenos Aires reminds my partly of a European city- lots of big apartment blocks, main streets filled with shops. It also reminds me of Mexico- the poorer parts of town are just kind of cobbled together in a hodge podge way. I was not able to get any pictures of the poorer parts of town, we seemed to just pass them on our way elsewhere.
Two interesting stops were the Camenita, a colorful area where artists hang out and the Recoleta, a graveyard. The Camenita is interesting because the tradition of the houses being colorful comes from when the area was a port area. The people would paint their houses with the left over paint from painting the ships.
The Recoleta was a city of the dead. It is filled with crypts and vaults and cats! Many of the crypts you could peek into and it was very interesting. Some were well cared for, some looked like they had not seen a human hand in years, make that generations.
We enjoyed our day but we are tired, now we have to try and stay awake until
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