Buenos Aires - 2005
In January-February 2005 we visited South America before and after our Antarctic Cruise.
49-days - Melbourne - Auckland - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Ushuaia - 10-day Antarctic Cruise - Ushuaia - El Calafate -
Perito Moreno Glacier - El Calafate - El Chalten - Puerto Natales (Chile) - Torres del Paine NP - Chilean Fiords ferry - Puerto Varas -
Lakes crossing - Bariloche (Argentina) - Buenos Aires - Auckland - Melbourne
An excited couple on board the 3½ flight with Air New Zealand to Auckland.
We had 2½ hours in transit and then a 12½ flight on the Aerolineas Argentinas jet to Buenos Aires.
The presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Casa Rosada.
The Casa Rosada balcony from where Eva Peron energized adoring crowds during her heyday in the 1940s.
Madonna also crooned from here for the film, Evita.
There are many fine buildings in Buenos Aires, the "Paris of South America".
Very fine coffee and cake while watching the impromptu tango dancing in Recoleta, one of the fashionable areas of the city.
The name Recoleta comes from a local church and convent. The name is derived from spiritual recollection.
The Recoleta order built its convents on the outskirts of cities.
You can even be lucky enough to have a tango dance with Leticia!
Eva Peron's mausoleum in the Cementiro de Recoleta.
María Eva Duarte (1919 – 1952), better known as María Eva Duarte de Perón, Eva Perón and Evita, was the wife of
Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
She became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights.
She received great support from the low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones".
She suffered much opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie, and she died from cancer at the age of 33.
Floralis Generica - una neuva flor en Buenos Aires
A massive metal sculpture which is set in a fountain pond. It mechanically closes at night.
We could clearly see it from the jet as we were coming in to land at the nearby airport.
It was constructed in 2002 and the arquitecto was Eduardo Catalano.
After a night in Buenos Aires, we flew to Ushuaia to prepare for our Antarctic cruise.
In January-February 2005 we visited South America before and after our Antarctic Cruise.
49-days - Melbourne - Auckland - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Ushuaia - 10-day Antarctic Cruise - Ushuaia - El Calafate -
Perito Moreno Glacier - El Calafate - El Chalten - Puerto Natales (Chile) - Torres del Paine NP - Chilean Fiords ferry - Puerto Varas -
Lakes crossing - Bariloche (Argentina) - Buenos Aires - Auckland - Melbourne
An excited couple on board the 3½ flight with Air New Zealand to Auckland.
We had 2½ hours in transit and then a 12½ flight on the Aerolineas Argentinas jet to Buenos Aires.
The presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Casa Rosada.
The Casa Rosada balcony from where Eva Peron energized adoring crowds during her heyday in the 1940s.
Madonna also crooned from here for the film, Evita.
There are many fine buildings in Buenos Aires, the "Paris of South America".
Very fine coffee and cake while watching the impromptu tango dancing in Recoleta, one of the fashionable areas of the city.
The name Recoleta comes from a local church and convent. The name is derived from spiritual recollection.
The Recoleta order built its convents on the outskirts of cities.
You can even be lucky enough to have a tango dance with Leticia!
Eva Peron's mausoleum in the Cementiro de Recoleta.
María Eva Duarte (1919 – 1952), better known as María Eva Duarte de Perón, Eva Perón and Evita, was the wife of
Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
She became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights.
She received great support from the low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones".
She suffered much opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie, and she died from cancer at the age of 33.
Floralis Generica - una neuva flor en Buenos Aires
A massive metal sculpture which is set in a fountain pond. It mechanically closes at night.
We could clearly see it from the jet as we were coming in to land at the nearby airport.
It was constructed in 2002 and the arquitecto was Eduardo Catalano.
After a night in Buenos Aires, we flew to Ushuaia to prepare for our Antarctic cruise.
