Tour Day

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We took a bus tour as a class and stopped at a few key places in the city...we also spent some time over in San Telmo (an interesting barrio in BsAs best explored by day...gets a little sketchy at night...). Pictures from the trip!

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Photos

Balcony in San Telmo
The figures are Evita, Gardel (the tango singer), anddddd someone else important....

Que linda!
In the really tourist-y, crafts-y section of San Telmo, all the houses/cafes/stores are painted like this

Not quite Keystone...
Quilmes, actually - but apparently Argentines like their kegs too

Tango anyone?
dancers at the cafe where we stopped for empenadas

Warming up
"gaucho"-esque dancers

Old Government
when Argentina was governed by viceroys, this was the seat of government power

Plaza de Mayo
That's the "Casa Rosada" (literally, 'pink house') in the background - current home of the president

Ovelisk
at the plaza

Madres de Plaza de Mayo
messages from the "madres" (about "los desaparecidos" - those that were kidnapped/ "went missing" during the rule of the military junta of Videla, 1976-1983) surround the ovelisk in the plaza

Malvinas
more political messages - these are in remembrance of the soldiers who fought in la guerra de las malvinas vs. Britain in 1982

The "Flor!"
A big "flower" that collects solar energy...it opens in the morning and closes at night