Adventures in South America

Adventures in South America

21 Days and counting!!

We are making the final preparations for our trip to South America. In exactly three weeks, we will be heading down to Buenos Aires for a few months. After much nail biting, we finally have our apartment situation straightened out. We used bytargentina's service to book an overpriced apartment (by argentinian standards). It has taken us some time to pick an available apartment - we chose a couple of other apartments, but lost out on them because other people were ahead of us and got the apartments. So, our housing situation is as follows:

Jan 12th- 17th we will be staying at the following apartment. It is a small studio apartment located in a trendy district called Las Cañitas. This area has lots of restaurants, cafes and bars (think East Village).

The main draw of this place is that it is in a good location and affordable while we are waiting for the place we really wanted to become available. There is no AC in this apartment... we will really get to experience that BA heat firsthand :-)

Jan 17th - April 1st we will be staying at this apartment at Oro and Paraguay streets.
This location is a little more centralized - closer to the subway, closer to other neighborhoods but still close to the "action" of Palermo Viejo. Palermo Viejo, which is next to Las Cañitas, is also an area with a ton of restaurants and things to do.

The other neighborhood that we were considering living in is Recoleta. This is an exclusive, safe neighborhood.... think Upper East Side. More families as opposed to young people. Recoleta is a nice area. The infamous Recoleta Cemetary is here, which has Eva Peron's grave, among other famous Argentinians.

posted by Kathy T @ 10:34 AM