Buenos Aires Travel Blog

photo by Elizabeth Gleeson Everyone likes a lunch deal – save a few bucks during the day and splurge on your supper, and BA ought to be full of them. With the favorable 4 pesos-to-the-dollar exchange rate, one would think that a dirt-cheap lunch is easy as pie. The truth is, Argentina’s inflation...

photo by Wagner T. Cassimiro "Aranha" Although soccer is hands-down Argentina’s national pastime, the sport is treated more like religion than some weekend diversion. Friendly debates over which player is responsible for giving up that last goal can turn into shouting matches in a heartbeat,...

Check out these two sites detailing 2 fabulous independent documentary films about Buenos Aires: American director Julia Reagan has released her project, ArgenChino, into the independent film festival circuit, and is getting all kinds of acclaim. The film gets inside the story behind the ubiquitous...

photo by Elton Melo Four years after the closing and 2 long years after the expected reopening of the grandiose opera house smack in the center of Buenos Aires, the Teatro Colón finally pulls back the curtains once again to some of the finest performers and works in the world. The reopening of what...

Faena Hotel + Universe photo courtesy of Erin Williamson Anyone who has picked up a travel magazine in the past decade knows that Buenos Aires and its very favorable dollar, pound, and euro-to-peso exchange rate is the ideal destination for saving a few bucks while indulging yourself in top accomodations,...

It happened two centuries ago, though no one’s likely to forget it anytime soon: on May 25, 2010, Argentina rings in 200 years since the May Revolution sent the Spanish packing. And, being a country that loves holidays and needs little more than a suggestion to throw a big bash, they’re doing...