Recoleta Cemetary

Buenos Aires - Dogs & Dead People

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October 3rd 2008
Jetlag is a funny thing. We both woke at 2am and couldn’t sleep again until 4ish despite being tired. We got out of bed around 7.30am and had breakfast at the hostel before heading out by Subte to Plaza Italia in Palermo. We walked a few blocks to find the apartment block that Che Guevara once lived in but found it in the late stages of demolition. 2 or 3kms north we hit Av del Libertador - ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more