Buenos Aires is one BIG city

I haven't had a chance to update our whereabouts since we have been on the go exploring Buenos Aires for the last week. We've been touring the city mostly on foot.  We usually leave the apartment around 11:00a.m. and return to the apartment around 11:00p.m. It is a very fast paced life in the city. You just have to keep going or else you just might miss something! Buenos Aires is a city with 15.2 million people. It is a city that is always on the go, with streets filled with people day and night. I personally would like to relax once in awhile. It's very hard to do that here! But we will enjoy it while we are here and try to see as much as we can.

 The neighborhoods are very eclectic with their own personality. The neighborhood we ended up in was called Palermo.This is the largest neighborhood with many nooks and crannies. This was an area with hip boutiques, upscale restaurants and wonderful cafes and museums. If I were to live in Argentina that would probably be the neighborhood I would want to live in.

 Very cultural by nature,  museums and theatres can be found on almost every corner. Bookstores line the streets along with musicians sitting on sidewalks playing their songs. We visited a beautiful bookstore which was housed in previous theatre. Check out the photos below:

Another must see in Buenos Aires was the Recoleta Cemetery. It is a beautiful cobble stoned city of it's own with extravagant mausoleums of Buenos Aires rich and sometimes, famous families. This is the cemetery which Eva Peron is buried in. Unfortunately, the cemetery was so massive that we could not find her grave. Here are a few photos of the beautiful adorned grave sites:

 

Art is a very important component of Buenos Aires culture. Here is a picture of a metal sculpture in the United Nations Park. It is called "Floralis Generica". It is actually 75 feet tall and 52 meters wide. It opens at 8:00a.m. to simulate blooming, and at dusk it closes and glows red.

City street 6 lanes wide