On the final full day in Buenos Aires we took a jaunt down Avenida Corrientes. This is a big roadway that is comparible to Broadway in NYC. It hosts loads of theaters, bookshops, cafes and much more. From here we took the subway to Palermo, Buenos Aires´trendiest neighborhood. A considerable chunk of land has set aside here to make way for parks, botanical gardens, a zoo, a rose garden and a space dedicated to Japanese botany. In any of these areas, you can snag a sense of separation from the frenzy of the city.We spent a lot of time walking around the neighborhoods here and saw many upscale apartments, trendy bars/cafes and pricey restaurants. Remarkably, the stray dogs are nonexistant in this part of the city (which was disappointing to me since I had been carrying a bag of dog food around all day). The ice cream shop pictured was run by three older men (a fresh change from lazy, bubble gum chewing teenagers) and it served up the best gelato I have ever tasted. The first two photographs of this post are of a really quaint, original cafe that had quirky furniture and menus handwritten in notebooks. That night, we met up with some other American travelers and had our trip´s leading empañadas. Needless to say, it was really hard to wake up the next morning, knowing that I had to leave BA and hop on a 3-day bus ride back to Lima.
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