Buenos Aires Pictures

The pride of the city, the world's biggest road, Avenida 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires.

Where else would be so short of sights that the world's widest road, 20 lanes of gas guzzling madness [some lanes are not visible in this picture, they're on the other side of the trees to the left and right] running right through the city centre, and loaded with cars and stinking, roaring buses is a sight in its own right?
And on the subject of cars, don't even think of driving in this city, where taxis are brutal if you're driving, but dirt cheap if you're hiring, and parking is the usual nightmare, only in Spanish, and the police are famously - shall we say - unsympathetic and poorly paid.

Originally built in 1889 but redeveloped in 1992, Galerias Pacifico, off the popular pedestrian street Florida, is one of Buenos Aires' most popular shopping malls.

For those lucky few with money to spend Argentina is a shopping paradise, with high quality, sophisticated goods on sale for silly prices by European or North American standards. Leather goods are naturally a favourite purchase with all the steaks on tables out there, but also silver and gold jewellery, wonderful antiques and silverware in the San Telmo area, designer clothing in Palermo Viejo, and Avenida Alvear or Santa Fe for just about anything.
Guys may be especially interested in leather jackets and trainers, girls in matching shoe/handbag combinations.
And don't forget to ask for a bill and tax receipt [cheque de reintegro] for big ticket items so when you leave Argentina you'll get up to 16% of the 21% tax back at the airport's puesto de pago.

Caminito, La Boca, Buenos Aires.

Probably the number one tourist sight in Buenos Aires is Caminito - in the La Boca barrio - a short, narrow block of cheap and ancient housing painted in effervescent colours, apparently begged off shipcrews docked nearby. Caminito is, however, something of a tiny tourist trap with buildings outnumbered by tourist buses and does not at all represent the city, nor does it take long to see. However...

Caminito, La Boca, Buenos Aires.

There are some particularly fine murals in the vicinity, such as this one, or soccer fans might like to walk a couple of hundred metres up to....

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