Auckland to Buenos Aires
(I’m afraid these photos are all scans of prints taken from the pre-digital days, so the quality on here is worse than the originals.)
On New Years Day 1999 we took a very empty Qantas plane to Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was Qantas’ second flight to South America and the pilot had never flown that way before, so we had an interesting flight and even more interesting landing. We took a taxi to our charismatic hotel – oops – driving on the other side of the road and very flexible driving with respect to road rules and in particular lane markings.
Buenos Aires is called the ‘Paris of the South’ It has grand buildings, wide roads and kerb-side dining.
We spent two days in Buenos Aires, walking around mostly, then waited at the airport for our late afternoon flight to Lima.
We also spent 2 days in Ushuaia, the very south of Argentina, the town failed to excite enough to even take a photograph !
Conclusions
Argentina is a big country and all we saw was a small portion of Buenos Aires and Ushuaia, hardly enough to have an opinion. Although we enjoyed Buenos Aires, there are many other exciting places to visit as well, and not enough time to do everything.
Ushuaia – well there are no pictures and no storey. Although we spend 2 days there, there was so little to offer I cannot have an opinion. I would back and explore the very south of South America.
Next – Peru