FIRST IMPRESSIONS of ARGENTINA 🇦🇷 Ep3: Buenos Aires is GORGEOUS

FIRST IMPRESSIONS of ARGENTINA 🇦🇷 Ep3: Buenos Aires is GORGEOUS

Welcome back everybody and welcome to  a brand new adventure in today’s video   we experience the very best of Buenos Aries  from its delicious Cuisine to its historical   streets and much much more this is incredible  so let’s not waste any time let’s pick things  

Up in the park I’m doing my morning walk and I  have something very quick but very important to   tell you about that you will experience when you  come to this [Music] country so the currency here   in Argentina is struggling they are suffering  incredibly High inflation right now so much so  

That they actually have to update and change  the prices of things like milk and bread and   eggs during the day so the price of milk in the  morning might be different to the price of milk   in the evening what that means in real terms  for us as Travelers as foreigners coming here  

Is that there are two rates of of the currency  there are two conversions the official rate   according to the US dollar is around $300 per  $1 but the unofficial rate which they call the   Blue Note rate is around 800 maybe 900 recently  last week people in our traveling WhatsApp group  

Said they were getting over ,000 per $1 at the  rate of $300 per US is an expensive city but at   the 9900 to 1,000 rate per dollar this place  is cheaper than Thailand so Paddy tell us how  

We get the bloody blue note rate then will you I  hear you ask I experienced two different methods   the first was to pay for everything using Visa as  they allow foreigners to purchase items near or  

On the Blue Note rate or and this is the main way  to do things guys you can exchange 100 us notes   in person with vendors who work on the streets  of Buenos arees I will show you how to do that  

In a minute in summary if you can get the blue  note rate this place is incredibly affordable   but if you get stung with the official rate well  you just might shed a few tears so that’s the  

Money situation bit of a strange one but I just  thought we’ get that out the way I’m going to go   back to the hotel after I’ve enjoyed my morning  walk go wake up Michael and then we’re going to  

Start our exploration of this city Buena arees  it’s cool it’s hip and the weather’s gorgeous so let’s go okay this is our little apartment  found this on booking $100 a night and they   gave us complimentary coffee and hot chocolate  and some pastries under here some delicious  

Quasons uh very basic but it’s nice to have a  fridge and we’ve got some local beer in there   for emergencies and some water and then in  here this is the living room and uh we didn’t   realize but out this door they’ve actually got  a washing machine so we’re doing a little bit  

Of laundry aren’t we all all that darling two or  three days yeah three days basically we’re going   to be here in total not enough time not enough  time yeah cuz it’s so cheap yeah I was telling  

Them about the two rates and uh we’re going to  go get some money so that we can get the good   rate some things might be it might be cheaper  than Thailand yep definitely I mean obviously  

Not you can get a p kaow and some patai on the  street for a dollar but to get the prices that   we saw last night for the quality of the food  and the fancy neighborhoods and these fancy  

Restaurants how much was the steaks massive steaks  between $7 and $10 yeah and like you’ll see later   cuz we’ll going for steak tonight cheap cheap  as chips yeah but it was only going to remain  

Cheap if we could get our hands on some pesos  at that blue note rate that we talked about so   we jumped in an Uber and headed over into town  to find one of those Street vendors we had read  

About online that exchange Us doll at that higher  rate that we need and after a quick taxi ride and   a little wander on the streets we found one of  the many vendors and exchanged our dollars in the  

Back of a wine store it sounds dodgy I know but  honestly guys it was easy peasy okay we got the   money couldn’t have been it couldn’t have been us  we got a rate of $800 800 pesos per dollar which  

Is a lot better than the official rate of 30050  Okay so we’ve just over doubled our money if we   had been using debit card the best is Visa and  MasterCard is just below that American Express  

Is best yeah which is tied to my Uber oops think  for this part of the adventure we’re just sort of   walking aimlessly around downtown and uh checking  out what they’ve got I just wanted to pop in and  

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Day I got to South America I left my good pair of  sunglasses on the on the airplane like a complete   idiot and Michael’s let me his but they’re very  expensive so if I lose these I’ll be much more   comfortable I go through about three pairs of  sunglasses on every trip it’s terrible it’s  

Like the one thing that I’m just so careless with  we’re just crossing the street here cuz we want to   have a good look at this uh massive Obelisk and  like the zebra Crossings are in the Argentinian

Flags there’s a huge bu sign made out of a bush  there’s a very orderly queue of people awaiting   their turn to take a nice picture and Michael  being the American that he is has just G straight   to the front [Music] you’ll have a lot of fun  exploring the streets of wena series especially  

On a beautiful day like today this gorgeous  area is actually one of the widest Avenues   in the world Avenida no de Julio it’s called  home to this huge iconic Obelisk and a great   way to know that you’re bang in the middle of the  [Music] city there’s a real called Cafe culture  

CAF is selling delicious coffee almost on every  corner loads of street art and of course this   is the Tango Capital being the birthplace of one  of the most famous and historical dancers in the   world visitors can experience Tango in various  forms you can go see shows in the theaters at  

Night or you can just get a little glimpse of  it for free on the streets okay we’re enjoying   ourselves just aimlessly walking around the  different neighborhoods of downtown and you   sort of passed through older areas and it’s  sprinkled in with little sections of Modern  

Skyscrapers and it’s just a really nice place  to walk around enjoy [Music] yourself I do love   Michael you know he’s a colorful fruit loop but he  brings the best out on people give me a pose come On definitely has a bit of a European  Vibe here the Spanish Colonial routes   coming through compared to other areas of the  city but yeah really nice oh God I see a cafe   with some outside seating with yeah it’s qu 12  padd’s got a little bit of a peckish [Music]

Belly you might think that the Hard Rock Cafe  isn’t exactly an Argentinian staple and of   course you would be right but they did sell a  chicken burger made by the legendary Messi and  

Being a huge Messi fan that I am I insisted that  I tried it and to be fair it was pretty decent   and just the energy boost we needed to keep  our exploration of buen aeres going and after  

That quick bite we stumbled across a gorgeous  Cemetery it’s called LA receta and it’s one of   the most famous and historic cemeteries in the  city it holds huge significance to the people   here and its architectural heritage even when I  was a kid I used to love hanging out at the local  

Cemetery outside the back of the church near my  old house just is just to sit there and look at   the names of the people and just imagine who they  were and what they did but this is on another  

Level I’ve never seen anything like this it’s  the Labyrinth of [Music] death and the caskets   are out here in the open it didn’t bury many of  these people underground because of flooding they   bury them overground in these tombs oh okay  so there’s a doctor and his wife downstairs  

And I can see through the floor just below my  feet and then upstairs there’s a child buried   here wow this is really interesting if you’ve  ever seen the movie aita with Madonna remember   she had that song Don’t Cry For Me Argentina  she’s buried here the woman that uh Madonna was Playing she D on her honeymoon in analan  and then a dog died a dog died plus little   old cotton socks as you can see apart from  its primary function this cemetery is a big   popular destination especially For Tourists and  we were really happy that we stumbled across it  

This one’s fancy and modern look steady on guided  tours are available you don’t need to just walk   around aimlessly like me and Michael but to be  fair getting lost in this Labyrinth and this   Maze of tombs and graveyards it was just yeah  it was a really beautiful place and definitely  

Put it on your list if you’re coming to brener  to explore the history and some of the culture   here oh no no no no no no no no no don’t go in  the ghost no it’s how you get in the subway no  

Dude you’re going to get haunted and for the rest  of the afternoon me and Michael continued walking   the colorful historical streets of the city and  after a while it was time to find a place to rest  

Our feet open a cold beer and just so up some more  of the incredible atmosphere thank you gracias a   beer and a poring jug yes please we’ve had such a  lovely afternoon and uh we found this little Piaza  

And there’s a bloke playing Oasis on his acoustic  guitar and we thought this is the perfect place   to have a little bit of a rest and a a paint or  two H Salo you sexy bastard emphasis on B [Music]

For the past few years I’ve been traveling  quite a lot guys but there was just something   about buaer that just clicked with me I love  it here and I really think that you will as   well and I love the apartments the parks the  atmosphere just really appealed to me and I  

Could certainly see myself living here and being  very happy the other thing that I love is the   food particularly the steaks you just can’t beat  the flavor and you can’t beat the price either I   mean just look at this place okay super fancy  packed out great wines great decor and a place  

That you might think we charge a fortune right  but nay we had a delicious starter we ordered   a smoked mackerel we had wine and Cocktails  throughout and we had this huge 900 G T-Bone   and the whole bill was under $100 for the both of  [Music] us this is incredible affordable livable  

This city is perfect that was until the next  morning how however when our luck seemingly ran out morning brenes Dias bit of a stressful  morning what what’s the technical term we got Swifty so we didn’t know until  this morning that Taylor Swift   is in town she’s playing four nights here

And that means we can’t get a room the T the  Taylor Swift effect is a burst to the economy   but we’re aware of uh friends of his were they  were in Denver just because they were there in  

Denver and they had to pay $600 for one night  at a Super Eight Hotel we may be sleeping in the   subway we woke up this morning we really like  our little apartment so we text the guy oh can  

We stay exra T night and he said no sorry it’s  full we said okay never mind we started looking   on what website did you look at uh hotel tonight  nothing not not a single room one room $1,800 at  

The Grand Mali the same place we stayed at yeah  so nearly $2,000 so I said oh don’t worry don’t   worry um something must be going on one thing  LEDs to another and we find out Taylor Swift is  

In town starting tonight for the next four nights  or whatever so I checked on booking and there was   a lot of rooms available but you know like not  very cheap rooms to say the least so we’ve had  

A little bit of a Mad Dash Panic this morning um  trying to resolve the issue so travel tip for you   make sure to research is Taylor Swift playing  a concert when I’m going to this town cuz uh  

If she is you’re going to have to pre-book your  accommodation uh and not figure this out on the   day so anyway we’ve booked something we do have  to move to another town I think it’s cost 379  

USD for a twin room in a little hotel somewhere  nearby not too far we’re going to change location   dump our bags and continue our exploration of the  sea I apologize for for my snoring no yeah didn’t  

Snor not yet well actually in the apartment we  have separate rooms but after this trip we head   down south to get on a cruise or a boat and we’re  going on a 10-day trip to Antarctica together in  

A in a in a little cabin together so I’ll let  you know if he if he snores [Music] then so   with Taylor Swift putting an expensive spanner  in the works it was up to us to kill a few hours  

Before we could switch hotels and get used to  the new area of the city so we jumped in a taxi   and headed to an interesting shopping mall  nearby that has quite a unique story behind [Music] it so the first night we arrived in  Buena and we went for pizza we had a really  

Friendly waiter and we asked him for some  recommendations things and places that not   every tourist goes to you know a little bit of a  local spot and he recommended a bastos which is   this it’s basically a mall right but it’s quite  interesting it’s built underground and inside an  

Old train station so this used to be an old train  station on Once Upon a Time and theyve oh there’s   a they’ve just seen a little swinging ship and  they’ve converted it into this basically top  

Floor of a Wonderland for kids you’ve got this big  ferris wheel ride within the arch and then you’ve   got this Neverland arcade which is just packed  and there loads of kids having really good fun   and this food court here is huge and you’ve got  your typical McDonald’s and your Burger Kings but  

You’ve also got loads of different little hole in  the wall stands we’ve ordered some steak Michael’s   ordered a big platter and it’s a great use of an  old building that obviously was no need no longer   needed and instead of knocking something down so  historic and beautiful they turned it into a you  

Know a good space for the [Music] locals yeah it  was fun to explore this historical and quirky mall   and just like most malls around the world it gave  us just enough things to see and do to kill the  

Few hours we needed before checkin which when it  rolled around meant we could check in to this new   room which by the way was really nice it was just  a shame that we had to pay way over the odds for  

It so a big thank you to the swifties for that  one the best part about the hotel however was   the numerous parks in the area so in classic Patty  Style I put my walking shoes on and headed out to

Explore okie dokie our time in Buenos arees  is slowly coming to a sad end it really has   been an incredible few days in this city I don’t  say this very often on this channel but from the  

Second I’ve got here and for every minute that  I’ve been here with Michael and the the little   opportunities that we’ve had away from each  other just to enjoy the city on our own I’ve   enjoyed every single Street Nook cranny and  moment in this city honestly guys I would if  

Things went tits up in Thailand I think I would  move here if it was possible I haven’t checked   the Visa situation buies is such a livable  City clean modern relatively safe there’s   a few neighborhoods that they tell you not to  you know explore too too late at night there’s  

A little bit of a homeless problem you know it’s  not perfect but it is so incredibly beautiful I’m   going to leave you with some scenes of these  Parks I hope you enjoyed this little chilled   out travel Vlog of weres tomorrow and in the next  video me and Michael will document our flight to  

The very south of the continent and I’ll see  you from the very south of Argentina in the   next episode thanks for watching again  [Music] CIA [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Welcome, fellow travelers, to the vibrant and sultry streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina! In this enchanting city, where tango beats resonate through historic neighborhoods, every corner unveils a story waiting to be discovered.

Our journey begins in the heart of the city at Plaza de Mayo, where the iconic pink-hued Casa Rosada stands proudly, echoing tales of Argentina’s tumultuous history. As we meander through the charming cobblestone streets of San Telmo, the air is filled with the passionate notes of street musicians and the colorful street art adorning the buildings provides a visual feast, blending seamlessly with the eclectic and bohemian atmosphere of this district.

Our exploration continues to the elegant Recoleta Cemetery, where grand mausoleums and ornate statues pay homage to Argentina’s historical figures. As the day unfolds, we savor the rich flavors of mate in the serene Bosques de Palermo, where locals gather to relax and unwind. Buenos Aires, with its fusion of European elegance and Latin American passion, is an enchanting city that promises a tapestry of experiences for every traveler.

Chapters:
00:00 – 00:33 – Intro
00:34 – The Currency Concern
02:32 – The Apartment
03:53 – The Hunt for Money
05:04 – Squarespace
06:04 – Exploring downtown
08:47 – Messi Burger
09:13 – Historical Cemetery
11:45 – Evenings are the BEST
14:03 – TAYLOR SWIFT
16:50 – Change of plans….
19:01 – Afternoon walk

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