ARGENTINA #3 . . . In the last few days, we've spent some time doing touristy things: on Friday, we spent some of the day at Puerto Madera, one of the newest and most modern areas of Buenos Aires; then on Saturday, we took a bus tour that gave us our first look at the neighborhoods called La Boca and San Telmo. Finally, on Saturday afternoon, we made our first visit to Recoleta Cemetery, which is only a half block from us and one of the most famous parts of Buenos Aires.

Near the giant-metal-flower-thing (the Floralis Generica), near our apartment in Recoleta (note: it closes at night and opens in the morning) --

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Typical Buenos Aires apartment building -- (nearly all the buildings, at least in our part of town, are apartments, with stores on the first floor)--

A Buenos-Aires dog walker--

Sam and Andrea walking towards the port area, Puerto Madera--

Sam at Puerto Madera--

A group shot by some girls from Brazil (in the background on the left is the bridge called the Puente de la Mujer by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, see here)--

Water and boats--

In La Boca, some tango-dancing models posing for a professional photographer--

The same scene, zooming out--

Sam and Andrea on the street in La Boca--

A hanging menu in La Boca--

Sam and Andrea sitting on a curb in La Boca. The curb is painted like a schoolbus. Sam spotted it, but then thought we'd get in trouble for sitting there--

Sam at the Recoleta Cemetery--

A typical tomb at the Recoleta Cemetery. Oddly, you can look through glass windows in many of the tombs and see the coffins inside--

Sometimes, the glass fronts of the tombs are broken, and you can see inside. I took this photo of stairs leading down, with coffins on both sides--

Watching the wild cats at the cemetery--

More wild cats--

One of the plaques on the family tomb of Eva Peron--