La Boca, the colourful Buenos Aires neighbourhood
La Boca is a neighbourhood in the south of Buenos Aires. Neighbourhoods are called barrios and barrio by barrio is a good way of getting to know Buenos Aires. Travelling through the different neighbourhoods, gives a good idea about the people of the city, their relation with their surroundings and the barrio’s formation.
La Boca is said to be one of the poorer neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, with rentals much lower than the rest of the city. On weekends, a street in La Boca called Caminito comes alive with art, dance and music.
Cafes in La Boca
Tango, the biggest attraction of the weekend in LA Boca
La Boca and football
The locals of La Boca sometimes refer to it as La Boca Republic, like they are a country itself! Their families have lived here for generations. They were born here, went to schools here and worked here. Their friends and families are all here. This is where they played their football! There is no reason for them to step out of the comfort of the colourful La Boca!
The tickets for the matches of La Boca Juniors sell out almost immediately after they become available. You have to buy them in the street markets. The fake sale of these tickets is a flourishing market in Buenos Aires, one that the tourists need to be aware of!
San Telmo, the oldest barrio of Buenos Aires
Antique markets of San Telmo
Street performers of San Telmo
The San Domble group in San Telmo barrio of Buenos Aires
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Sao Paulo, Brazil and the beginning
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Ilha Grande: Paradise on an island
How do you combine blue, green and white and make the most beautiful thing ever? Of course, by making the island of Ilha Grande! We decided to head to Ilha Grande for our next stop. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, it is part of the area called “Costa Verde” meaning the “Green coast”.
Devil’s might at Iguacu waterfalls
“Don’t say it like it’s a bad thing” a co-traveler consoled us when we told him it was time for us to exit Brazil. Our visa for Argentina was running out and it was time for us to start putting it to use.
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Lovely impression! 🙂
And thanks for the follow 😉
Thank you, Nil!
The shop with all of the necklaces and the orange boa looked so interesting. I’d have loved to be there. I would have walked out with so many things (that I probably would wind up not wearing but loving anyway. 😀 )
The picture of the children watching the puppet show was so cute. Children are so sweet and entertained by the simplest of things. We tend to lose that as adults where we require more than just a simple puppet show to entertain us, which is sad.
Hey Tina, true about the children, every set of children we saw was seeing the puppet show with amazement. Hat’s off to the artist as well, who kept the same energy level show after show! for us, it was fascinating, just walking down a street and seeing these things happen, in the middle of a big busy city like Buenos Aires!
Looks like you had a fun weekend. Nice pics.
Visiting the San Telmo and La Boca neighbourhoods was indeed a lot of fun!