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ARGENTINA SUGGESTED ITINERARY 6 NTS / 7 DAYS
(Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, El Calafate)
 
DAY 01: BUENOS AIRES
After arrival to Ezeiza International Airport you will be received and taken to your Hotel.
 
Buenos Aires is a complex, energetic, and seductive port city, which stretches south-to-north along the Rio de la Plata; it has been the gateway to Argentina for centuries.
 
Porteños, as the people of Buenos Aires are known, possess an elaborated and rich cultural identity. They value their European heritage highly, and the lifestyle and architecture are markedly more European than any other in South America. One of the world's finest opera houses, the Colon Theater, flourishes here on the plains alongside the river.
 
But the city has also spawned its own art forms, notably the tango, for which Buenos Aires is famous.
 
Porteños are intensely involved in the life and culture of their city, and they will gladly share the secrets of Buenos Aires if you lend an ear and relate your own stories in return.
This afternoon you will explore South America's most sophisticated and elegant capital city, Buenos Aires, home to 13 million proud port city dwellers, or porteños.
 

 
The colonial heart of Buenos Aires, the beguiling capital, exudes the atmosphere of its illustrious and occasionally notorious history: nearby the bohemian quarter of San Telmo, birthplace of the city, the colorful port area of La Boca (the spiritual home of the tango),famous for ¨Caminito Street¨, the well-heeled “belle epoque” quarter of Recoleta, known for its Cemetery where Evita Peron is buried, Palermo, wide and beautiful park located in the heart of one of the most elegant areas in the city.
 
9 de Julio Avenue, Plaza de Mayo and Avenida de Mayo are added attractions.
 

Stop at Café Tortoni for a ¨Porteño Coffee¨ or a drink.

It is the oldest café in the city. The marble and wooden tables, the old pictures on its walls, the traditional menu, the waiters, and the customers turned it into the archetype of the bar in Buenos Aires.
 
A French immigrant called Touan founded it in 1858. Since the beginning of the 20th Century, the Tortoni is visited by artists, politicians, and office workers from downtown. Jorge Luis Borges, Luigi Pirandello, García Lorca, Julio Cortázar, Arturo Rubinstein, and Carlos Gardel used to visit it, among other people. Pictures, poems, and busts in the interior tell the story of this bar.

Dinner at Justo Corrientes Restaurante in Puerto Madero.

In the heart of Puerto Madero, where Corrientes St. meets modern Alicia M. de Justo Avenue, Justo Corrientes restaurant busted into with a bet to porteños' traditional cooking.
 
As an old bodegón, the menu offers those recipes that remind our Grandma: potato pastel, gnocchi with meat balls sauce, lentils' stew, milanesas… There are also gourmet dishes, but with the common characteristic of Argentine product, like the Patagonia lamb gigot with asparagus, baby grilled onions, small corns fried in thyme clarified butter, caramelized sweet potatoes and Porto sauce.
 
Apparently, the grandmother really existed, and she left them a way of eating as porteños do: everything homemade, abundant and well served.
 
Overnight at selected Hotel.
 
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