Buenos Aires Stay has a favorite tour for either Saturday or Sunday. Our walking / taxi tour takes you south of the City of Buenos Aires to La Boca and back to the center of Buenos Aires to finish in Puerto Madero. Our tour includes La Boca, San Telmo, Plaza de Mayo and Puerto Madero – if you start early enough and if you are up to it, you can also walk the ecological reserve in Puerto Madero for one of Buenos Aires’ better photo opportunities.
We entertained guests last weekend and planned Sunday for our Buenos Aires sightseeing tour. Our Buenos Aires tour, if you start late morning, includes a stop for lunch in La Boca at our favourite pasta restaurant, Il Matterello, Martín Rodríguez 517, TEL: 4307-0529. We mention Il Materello becuase it is fabulous!
Alternatively, you may start earlier to arrive in Puerto Madero around 13h-14h and have a walk around the ecological reserve. You can choose to lunch in one of the many fine Puerto Madero restaurants or choose more cost effective (perfectly good scrum) al fresco dining along the marsh-side-promenade just outside Puerto Madero’s ecological reserve.
At 11h, we caught a taxi to La Boca, there are bus routes, but Buenos Aires Stay always promise to tell it as it is and we believe that the areas around La Boca’s tourist hub are dangerous – catch a cab and be safe.
Please be careful, outside of the well-policed streets around Caminito, which apart from petty thievery is quite safe.
We arrived and took a coffee and medialunas (croissant type pastry) ask for con manteca (butter) they are much nicer.
La Boca is a bohemian enclave of bright painted houses of wood and corrugated iron. Effigies of famous Argentines pose from balconies or their heads pop out of many windows. There are tango dancers, tango singers and lots of local artists selling their paintings and craft.
We then caught a taxi to San Telmo. Ask you driver to drop you on Cochabamba y Defensa.
We walked the entire length of Defensa towards Plaza de Mayo. There are always thousands of people, all the local antique and fashion shops are open, and hundreds of stalls sell bric-a-brac and local art. We love San Telmo at the weekend. Once at Plaza de Mayo, you have even more Buenos Aires sightseeing, Casa Rosada, Metropolitan Cathedral and the Cabildo.
We left out Plaza de Mayo for another time and headed over the Puerto Madero for a walk around the Ecologiocal reserve, a wonderful marshland oasis, which has wonderful photograph opportunities looking back at the high rises of both Puerto Madero and the City of Buenos Aires.
This walking tour of Buenos Aires is about balance. The busiest tourist centers of Buenos Aires City, tempered by the clean air and natural beauty of the nature reserve, we love it!
If you intend to pack all your Buenos Aires sightseeing into one day and eat, you need to plan carefully. We only try to cover three barrios in one day when our guests are pushed for time and we rarely sit down to eat if a walk of the nature reserve is on the cards because it closes at around 18h.
If you want further information about our walks or more precise details on street names and directions, just contact us and expect a reply in 24-hours or the next working day.
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