Our first stop was the Botanical Garden. Occupying seven hectares (over 17 acres), the garden has a collection of some 6,000 tree and plant species, a botanical library, Roman, French and oriental gardens, a herbarium, and five greenhouses. The city government's gardening school also functions on the site, which was founded by French landscaper Charles Thays opened in 1898.
This was a little secret garden with benches inside.
I think we walked the entire 17 acres! It was beautiful with so many different types of flowers, lots of sitting areas, and sculptures and fountains.
Our next stop was the Evita Peron Museum. It opened in 2002 on the 50th anniversary of Eva "Evita" Perón's death. The museum gave us a fascinating insight into the life and times of Argentina's most famous first lady. There were dresses (which you are not allowed to photograph), objects and mementos that belonged to Evita, and some interesting videos showing different moments in her life, including her career as an actress, her relationship and marriage to president Juan Domingo Perón, and her political and social work. It also offers a window into Argentine national life at the time with displays of contemporary objects and photography. She was quite the political activist and was the champion of the workers and poor in Argentina. She was only 33 when she died of cancer in 1952!
I think we walked the entire 17 acres! It was beautiful with so many different types of flowers, lots of sitting areas, and sculptures and fountains.
Our next stop was the Evita Peron Museum. It opened in 2002 on the 50th anniversary of Eva "Evita" Perón's death. The museum gave us a fascinating insight into the life and times of Argentina's most famous first lady. There were dresses (which you are not allowed to photograph), objects and mementos that belonged to Evita, and some interesting videos showing different moments in her life, including her career as an actress, her relationship and marriage to president Juan Domingo Perón, and her political and social work. It also offers a window into Argentine national life at the time with displays of contemporary objects and photography. She was quite the political activist and was the champion of the workers and poor in Argentina. She was only 33 when she died of cancer in 1952!
We stopped for lunch and at VoulezBar and decided to share the special of the day even though we had NO IDEA what it was! We ordered on blind faith ... and it turned out mostly okay. We did add one extra drink, so our total was $2550. (about $8.50 USD)
It turned out that it was fish with a garlic/olive oil sauce - over beets, with orange and grapefruit slices. We both had one small beet and skpped the grapefruit which was soooo sour! I don't need to eat beets again for another 20 years or so. They also served us a bread basket with a black olive paste to dip it in and the dessert was good!
It turned out that it was fish with a garlic/olive oil sauce - over beets, with orange and grapefruit slices. We both had one small beet and skpped the grapefruit which was soooo sour! I don't need to eat beets again for another 20 years or so. They also served us a bread basket with a black olive paste to dip it in and the dessert was good!
Fortified, we moved on to the Japanese Gardens. The admission was $690 pesos each - less than $3. The Garden was built in 1967 by the Japanese Embassy and donated to the city to show the gratitude of the Japanese community living in Argentina.
Even though there were several visitors there, it was beautiful and we enjoyed our visit there.Monuments were next on the agenda, and there are many, many monuments in Buenos Aires!
These are only a few of the ones we took pictures of and I have to admit, I lost track of most of them, but this last one is the Spaniards Monument. It was donated by the Spanish to Argentina in 1910 to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the May Revolution which resulted in Argentina's independence.
We also visited the Rose Garden and some other city parks we didn't know the names of!
One scheduled stop was the Museo Sivori which was described as "The Museum of Plastic Arts." It was not at all what we thought it would be! Turns out it was more of a modern art museum and we were both glad it was only $500 pesos each! 
The drawing below is what my brain looks like at night when I can't fall asleep!
This was my favorite piece in the museum. All of the pieces were tiny folded paper hats stitched together with thread.
It was now close to 6pm so we headed back to the hotel for showers before dinner. We did stop at a bakery to pick up dessert for tonight. We got one of the round pastries on the left filled with dulce de leche. The filling was really good, but the pastry was pretty dry. Oh well, another opportunity to try again!
The drawing below is what my brain looks like at night when I can't fall asleep!
This was my favorite piece in the museum. All of the pieces were tiny folded paper hats stitched together with thread.
It was now close to 6pm so we headed back to the hotel for showers before dinner. We did stop at a bakery to pick up dessert for tonight. We got one of the round pastries on the left filled with dulce de leche. The filling was really good, but the pastry was pretty dry. Oh well, another opportunity to try again!
We had never heard of a Stepway car before ... have you?
I also wanted share some of the different streets we walked along today - and yes - we did have to cross most of these. The cars do not like to yield to pedestrians either!
After showers and relaxing we had dinner at a pizza place a couple blocks away. 
It was really good. Pizza, one empanada (which was a little better than the one we tried yesterday) and two drinks was only about $8.50 USD!
Tomorrow is our "official" guided city tour which begins at 9 am so for now, goodnight!
I also wanted share some of the different streets we walked along today - and yes - we did have to cross most of these. The cars do not like to yield to pedestrians either!
After showers and relaxing we had dinner at a pizza place a couple blocks away. 
It was really good. Pizza, one empanada (which was a little better than the one we tried yesterday) and two drinks was only about $8.50 USD!
Tomorrow is our "official" guided city tour which begins at 9 am so for now, goodnight!
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Carolyn, Sandy, and I looked at your blog this noon. Have fun! Your pictures are awesome.
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