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October 16, 2007
Day 2: Buenos Aires
Palermo hosts another weekend crafts fair (I love crafts fairs) so we decided to go to Palermo the following day. For those of you who don't know me, I also have a weakness for clothes shopping and our first stop was Alto Palermo Shopping Center. I was pretty impressed by the mall but, as I was to soon learn, Argentinians, or at least Portenos, love to shop so stores are frequently crowded, particularly during the weekend, and they seem to run out of items quickly. We made our way south to Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, which I had heard was the best Latin American art museum in South America. The museum was nice but small but they did have an exhibit on Joaquin Torres-Garcia which I enjoyed. We made our way back north and stopped off at the Japanese Garden (surprisingly large and nice), the botanical garden (disappointing), and the zoo (nice but crowded). We walked further north towards the fair which was not as nice as the fair in Recoleta so I decided to check out the clothing stores in Palermo but, much to my disappointment, many were closed (it was Sunday). It was too early to eat dinner in Palermo and Adam really wanted steak so we headed back to San Telmo and, after being turned away from La Brigada, went to Desnivel. Adam's steak was good but I made the mistake of ordering the steak with marsala sauce--the steak was o.k. but the sauce was pretty bad. On our way back to the hotel, we heard techno music and walked in the direction of the music to find a bunch of tango dancers dancing to techno music. It was pretty wild to see and I wish I had caught it early enough to tape because they then switched back to more traditional tango music. It was still nice watching the tango dancers--neither Adam nor I are into tango but watching tango in a less formal setting is nice.
Botanical garden
Tango dancer
Posted by Jennifer at October 16, 2007 03:33 PM