Buenos Aires (BA) absolutely rocks! Its got class, fresh air (well good for a capital city anyway!), awesome colonial architecture, fascinating history with some class A characters such as Evita and Peron, lots of good looking people and its dirt cheap (thanks to the currency crash in 2001)! As South America goes I understand from other travellers that its the most westernised of them all. That being said, as with all metropolises there is those that have and those that have not, and there is also alot of poverty in parts of BA, mostly in the 30 villas (shanty towns) that are dotted around town. On the whole I felt pretty safe and there is a huge police presence in all the nice parts of town, including the microcentre (the centre of town). For a
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