Day 7: Buenos Aires

According to our tour guide, the three most famous cemeteries are Père Lachaise in Paris, the cemetery in Genoa Italy, and the one we visited today in Recoleta. It has the largest collection of marble in the world. It was like a little city with maze-like streets.

Cemetery main “street”
The family actually owns the land and the mausoleum in this cemetery
Eva Peron’s grave. She is still so well loved here.

People love Eva Peron because she did so much for the poor in education, housing, wages, and working conditions. She was only 33 when she died of cancer, and many think it’s some kind of sign that she died at the same age as Jesus.

Then we traveled to a town just outside of Buenos Aires, called Tigre, and took a boat ride down the delta. We passed pretty homes, restaurants, a church, expensive hotels, and more along the shore.

An amusement park!

Then we had a marathon food walking tour that was five hours of serious eating. The food was so good and so plentiful.

We started with empanadas
Next, to honor their Spanish history: baked Provolone cheese, a tortilla de papas, and chicken,
Baked cheese
Tortilla de papas
The traditional wine decanter here is a ceramic white penguin. So cute!

But we weren’t done yet!

At our THIRD restaurant
We had another full meal—starting with this amazing bread…
New York steak and skirt steak. So good!

By this time we were in pain, but we weren’t done yet! More food!

Gelato for dessert!!! (Italian history)

One thought on “Day 7: Buenos Aires”

  1. I am so envious I can hardly stand it. The Food Tour is basically all I would ever want to do. Especially the walking from restaurant to restaurant. Oxnard had a thing like that where you took a boat to the different restaurants in the Harbor. Did that a couple of different times. Such a joy to see you enjoying yourself so much.

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