More Buenos Aires
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There are frequent protests in Buenos Aires though they are usually peaceful. This one had a police escort. These people are Bolivian immigrants who are being exploited as cheap labour in sweat shops.
Living the high life in the elegant Tortonis Cafe
The evening Tango Show at Tortonis
Mausoleums at the incredible Recoleta cemetery
Evita´s body is now in this mausoleum at Recoleta. Ironically, in death she is surrounded by the upper classes who despised her working class background.
Another Tango show, this time at the famous El Viejo Almacen
Singer and accordianist at El Viajo Almacen tango show
Having lunch at Las Violetas restaurante/patisserie/confiteria
Stained glass windows at Las Violetas
Cheryl comes face to face with Eva Peron at the Evita muesum
Another protest on Sunday (or so we thought), it was at the university Law Faculty building and there had been student protests reported during the week because one of the nominees for the position of Chancellor served in the government of the military dictatorship in the 1970s. However, the next day we read in the newspaper that this was actually a large crowd of 50,000 Peruvians casting their vote for their countrys election. The riot police were out in force but nothing nasty happened as far as we know.
A corner of the Government Palace building
As you can see by the photos above we have been having a good look around Buenos Aires day and night. It is a very exciting city with heaps to see and do. The Tortonis Cafe was a surprise because we discovered that as well as the beautiful surroundings, they have a tango show every night for only AUD12.50 entrance. So we went along and it was great except for when the female performer started to pull people out of the audience to dance the tango with her and guess who got picked! That´s right, yours truely and I can´t dance a step of tango. To make it worse I was wearing my hiking boots as the only footwear I have is them and my runners. Anyway, it was all good fun even if it was at my expense...
There have been a few protests here, obviously the Argentinians believe in their democratic right to freedom of speech and assembly. Some protests are huge like the march by thousands of Bolivians who are being exploited. Others are tiny, one night we saw a group of only a dozen people marching towards the presidential palace with a police escort. They might of been small but they were loud because they had a mobile PA system that was blasting out their message and had us running from our hotel room to see what was going on. What a let down it was to see only a tiny group making all the noise!
There are frequent protests in Buenos Aires though they are usually peaceful. This one had a police escort. These people are Bolivian immigrants who are being exploited as cheap labour in sweat shops.
Living the high life in the elegant Tortonis Cafe
The evening Tango Show at Tortonis
Mausoleums at the incredible Recoleta cemetery
Evita´s body is now in this mausoleum at Recoleta. Ironically, in death she is surrounded by the upper classes who despised her working class background.
Another Tango show, this time at the famous El Viejo Almacen
Singer and accordianist at El Viajo Almacen tango show
Having lunch at Las Violetas restaurante/patisserie/confiteria
Stained glass windows at Las Violetas
Cheryl comes face to face with Eva Peron at the Evita muesum
Another protest on Sunday (or so we thought), it was at the university Law Faculty building and there had been student protests reported during the week because one of the nominees for the position of Chancellor served in the government of the military dictatorship in the 1970s. However, the next day we read in the newspaper that this was actually a large crowd of 50,000 Peruvians casting their vote for their countrys election. The riot police were out in force but nothing nasty happened as far as we know.
A corner of the Government Palace building
As you can see by the photos above we have been having a good look around Buenos Aires day and night. It is a very exciting city with heaps to see and do. The Tortonis Cafe was a surprise because we discovered that as well as the beautiful surroundings, they have a tango show every night for only AUD12.50 entrance. So we went along and it was great except for when the female performer started to pull people out of the audience to dance the tango with her and guess who got picked! That´s right, yours truely and I can´t dance a step of tango. To make it worse I was wearing my hiking boots as the only footwear I have is them and my runners. Anyway, it was all good fun even if it was at my expense...
There have been a few protests here, obviously the Argentinians believe in their democratic right to freedom of speech and assembly. Some protests are huge like the march by thousands of Bolivians who are being exploited. Others are tiny, one night we saw a group of only a dozen people marching towards the presidential palace with a police escort. They might of been small but they were loud because they had a mobile PA system that was blasting out their message and had us running from our hotel room to see what was going on. What a let down it was to see only a tiny group making all the noise!
posted by Laurie Barram at 5:32 am
1 Comments:
just want to say three cheers for Lorenzo and Cheryl, the piccies and commentary were very professional and just like from a travel magazine (maybe new career coming up???)
It was almost as if I was travelling along with them.
I'm still suspicious about that blonde lady doing the tango....looks a bit like you know who....Cheryl showing the BA's how to tango...oz style..luv ya..lyneece..xoxoxoxoxo
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