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Trip to Buenos Aires with Michael Warner and a group of tango friends from Mpls/St. Paul area. Photos aren't "appreciated" at milongas (dances) but we did go to many milongas to dance the Argentine Tango!

Date(s): 11/7 - 11/18/2007. Album by Irene Erickson. Photos by Irene Erickson. 1 - 18 of 85 Total. 3503 Visits.

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1 Michael and Irene on the first day. Corner of Rivadavia and ??	2 Wax figures of famous guests at the famed Tortoni restaurant. Many great poets, song writers, artists, philosphers and politicians would meet here.	3 View of inside Tortoni Restaurant	4 View of stage area in Tortoni's where they have tango demonstrations.
5 Claudette points out the beautiful floor in the Cultural Center.	6 Jacarinda trees were in bloom...oops a bus...	7 Ah...better shot of the Jacarinda tree in La Plaza de Mayo.	8 This triangular building sits at the corner of the Diagonal Norte, a major street in BsAs.
9 There is a legend of an Indian girl who died and her beauty turned into this beautiful flowered tree (at Plaza de Mayo).	10 Monument at the Plaza de Mayo. The mothers of the missing children march around this monument.	11 The scarves in the stone plaza are for the mothers who wore white scarves while they marched in the Plaza for the 30,000 missing and/or dead children killed by the government.	12 Irene, Michael, Claudette in a well known San Telmo cafe. There are so many names of patrons carved into the wood that there is barely any uncarved spaces!
13 Irene and Michael in San Telmo cafe.	14 La Boca area on El Caminito, the famous street where Tango has its roots. The figures depict scenes from the era.	15 Irene and Michael on El Caminito in La Boca. (It was raining so the photo appears a bit blurred.)	16 Well known boxers came here to train and to fight during the hey day of this area.
17 The first subway train in BsAs. It's wood and the windows open.	18 Couldn't resist...the dog looked very funny!