Looking for a musical way to spend a Monday night in Buenos Aires? Sure, you can always find some milonga around town to dance some tango, but maybe you’ve already done that…or maybe you’re looking for something a little less cliché.
La Bomba del Tiempo (the time bomb) is a percussion group with around 17 members [...]

What do Belgium and Argentina have in common, besides an affinity for eating fries with mayonnaise? Cows! Yup, we’re back from our big Ardennes getaway…and the first thing that came to mind as we drove through field after field of brown cows, white cows, black cows, gray cows, black and white cows….. was La Exposición Rural [...]

Colonia de Sacramento is a small town located a one-hour ferry ride away from Buenos Aires, across the Río de la Plata. Historically, it has switched hands between the Portuguese who founded it and the Spanish numerous times. The Barrio Historico (the historic neighborhood) is now a UNESCO world heritage site. It has small cobblestone streets [...]

San Telmo is the oldest barrio (neighborhood) in Buenos Aires, full of colonial brick buildings, tango halls, cafés, old churches, and a gritty, authentic feel that all reflect the area’s past as the most multicultural and bohemian neighborhood in the city. So it’s no wonder that you can find tons of small shops selling antiques [...]

The Feria de Mataderos is the real deal.
There are other basic Sunday markets in the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of Recoleta, La Boca, and San Telmo where you can get cool jewelry, handcrafts, paintings and caricatures, etc. But the Feria de Mataderos is a real experience and worth the 45-minute bus trip from the center. Colectivo [...]