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Tastemakers' Recommendations on Buenos Aires

Travel guides are great and useful but only to a certain extent. They cover all the possible must-see’s and must-do’s that you don’t even know what is really worth checking out anymore. Not to mention, the used-to-be cool spots might have turned into a tourist trap without the proper ‘evaluation’ in the [...]

Monedas Are Good But SUBE Card Is Better

It’s not a secret among the people around me that I absolutely love taking los colectivos (buses) here in Buenos Aires. When I first arrived in Buenos Aires, learning how to use the Guia T, figuring out my way in all the one-way streets, going from point A to point B was like playing my [...]

San Telmo Sunday Market

Each Sunday in Buenos Aires, the San Telmo feria spans a nearly mile-long stretch of Calle Defensa, beginning at the iconic Plaza de Mayo and culminating in an antiques flea market at Plaza Dorrego. Vendors pack the cobbled streets of Defensa and crowds of tourists and Argentines browse through the goods, picking up items here [...]

The Final Act for Teatro Gran Splendid – The Great Bookshop of El Ateneo

El Ateneo, Santa Fe 1860, Palermo, is the bookshop to end all bookshops. Built in 1920´s and was originally opened and ran for 80 years as a theatre named Teatro Gran Splendid, included shows from the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel and composer/musician Francisco Canaro. In February 2000, the theatre was officially leased by Grupo [...]

What Do You See When You Cannot See?

There are a myriad of shows, acts and musicals overflowing in Buenos Aires and they are all jostling to get under the lime light. Last weekend, my eyes were opened, so to speak, to a new phenomena as I went to experience the “Theatre for The Blind”.

“Theatre for The Blind” sounds like a strange oxymoron [...]

Living the "extranjero" Life

In three days, I will have officially been in Buenos Aires for two months.

It’s not like I haven’t felt it coming, since that’s one of the first questions I get when striking up a conversation with locals: “How long have you been here?” It comes right after, “So, where are you from?” and “Do you [...]

Wander into the wild side of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires has a zoo in the city but actually not too far from the city, there is another zoo, or more accurately a bioparque called Temaikén. It is only an hour bus ride from Plaza Italia and the bus will drop you right off at the entrance.

Compare to the zoo in the [...]