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Calle Florida in Buenos Aires - a bit disappointing, note the abandoned Harrods
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Buenos Aires Cabildo on Plaza de Mayo
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Plaza de Mayo
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Pirámide de Mayo - constructed to celebrate the first anniversary of the May Revolution
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Casa Rosada, office of the President of Argentina
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Equestrian monument to General Manuel Belgrano
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a guy asking for money said this was a rubber tree
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Plaza San Martín
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graffiti is big in B.A.
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tango in Plaza Dorrego
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in the San Telmo barrio; I had lunch in a nice cafe on this square
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Subte
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Avenida 9 de Julio - apparently the widest avenue in the world
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Teatro Colón
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Obelisco de Buenos Aires - built to commemorate the fourth centenary of the first foundation of the city
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Palacio Barolo - when it was built it was the tallest building in South America
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view of Argentine National Congress from Palacio Barolo
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Casa Rosada in the distance - at the other end of Avenida de Mayo
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Don Quixote
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parrilla I ate at on Paraguay Street
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the next day, at Iguazu National Park
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view from the Sheraton lobby
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I did the Lower Trail first
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coati
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amazing
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San Martin Island on the left - usually closed due to water levels
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video
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San Martin Island
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then moved onto the Upper Trail
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rainbows very common here!
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looking back at the Sheraton Hotel
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this is all the Argentinian side
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map of the area
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train to the Garganta del Diablo walkway
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1km walkway over the river to see the biggest of the waterfalls that make up Iguazu Falls
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Brazil on the other side
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video
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on the walk back to the Sheraton
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lighthouse
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back at the Sheraton after a full day of walking
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at sunrise the next morning
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amazing breakfast spread
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Lower Iguazu River after taking a jeep through the jungle
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boat tour up to the Falls
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Brazil on the left
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starting to get wet; the cameras went in the waterproof bag after this
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in the airport; map showing Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
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back in Buenos Aires, this was my hotel for all 5 nights
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ate here a couple times
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crepe with dulce de leche
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ferry terminal for day trip to Uruguay
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leaving Buenos Aires - couldn't go outside on the ferry
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bus in Colonia to take tourists from ferry terminal to city center
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tourist bus, with a bit of a boring route
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old bull fighting arena was the most interesting part
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beautiful Old City Centre, even the HSBC bank has a nice courtyard
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chivito
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City Gate
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Colonia changed hands between Portugal and Spain several times
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lighthouse behind ruins of Convento de San Francisco
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Buquebus terminal in the distance
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historic city center
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Río de la Plata, Argentina on the south and Uruguay on the north
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the next day, back in B.A. on a Parrilla Tour; these are empanadas at our second stop. Sausage sandwich was the first stop
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fried cheese at our third stop
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thick steaks
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thin steaks
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run by a family that doesn't need new customers, so the closed sign is always up
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Evita tomb in Recoleta Cemetery
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unlike Canadian cemeteries!
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on the flight from Santiago to Punta Arenas
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