¡Hasta pronto Argentina!-saying goodbye

In a few hours my flight is starting back to Frankfurt, Germany. I can't really believe everything is over now. Especially the last month passed by so fast! It was a great time I will never forget-saw so many beautiful places, met many nice people and could learn a lot of spanish. Gracias especialmente a mi familia en Argentina por todo que hicieron para mi. ¡Nunca voy a olvidar mi tiempo aca en Buenos Aires y voy a extrañarlos tanto! Besitos <3

Top Museums in Buenos Aires

I went a lot by myself to some museums here in Buenos Aires because this city has a huge offer in culture, music and art.

1. MALBA -> Museo America Latina de Buenos Aires
A great museum with modern art with artists like Frida Kahlo. It was my favorite museum here.

2. arteBA -> the second edition of an exhibition of young and modern art. Always from the 24th to 27th of May. The hall is placed in Plaza Italia and you really need two days to see everything.

3.Museo de Bellas Artes->old, antic art from mostly europe.

4. Arte Argentino PROA-placed directly in the touristic district La Boca, this museum impressed me too with its young and crazy art.

Puerto Madero

The modern site of Buenos Aires, where tall building with spectacular architecture are placed, is "Puero Madero"-you can't miss it in one of your visits because it belongs to one of the most famous part of the argentinian capital.

The bridge right in the middle of the port, "La puente de la mujer", designed by the spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.

When you take a walk around the port its really a beautiful atmosphere because its kind of reallt silent there and the buildings are impressive. Puerto Madero is not far from the "Casa Rosada" and "Plaza de Mayo" so you will find it really quickly. Eating there is expensive so just take a walk and search something somewhere else to eat. With my hostsister and their friends I had a great day at the port. 

another german girl, me, my exchange partner and a friend

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Schaut euch mal den Blog von meiner Freundin Lilly an! Lilly, voll suess von dir die lieben worte ueber mich <3 So schade, dass wir nur so kurz hier zusammen sind :( 

Top 5 Eat&Drink in Buenos Aires

After 2 and a half months of Buenos Aires, my knowledge about some good spots has developed, especially regarding vegetarians. You might think its impossible to find good places to eat something without meat and fish included but your wrong: I found much more opportunities, vegetarian and vegan, than I thought I would and that made my stay even more comfortable.
The famous district Palermo for example contains some good adresses for organic and vegetetarian food. For meat-eater an argentinian asado is probably one of the most important must-do's in Buenos Aires.

Number 1: Gorriti 5657, Palermo Hollywood
Buenos Aires Verde- everything a vegetarian heart desires.

Number 2: Jerónimo Salguero 3075, Palermo 
Le Pain Quotidien-sweet, little organic french cafe with vegetarian and vegan breakfast, lunch or bakery. Such a good atmosphere! (and placed next to the amazing MALBA-Museum)

Number 3: Echeverría 2102, Belgrano
Tea Connection: placed next to a beautiful park where you can enjoy tea from all over the world

Number 4: Arribeños 2137, Belgrano
Porteño Dragon-chinese restaurant in Chinatown with easy and cheap chinese food.

Number 5:Cabrera 5127, Palermo
La Cabrera-Considered to be one of the best spots eating argentinian meat. 

The Tigre Delta

Not far away from Buenos Aires city a beautiful water scenery takes place: the rivers of Tigre-a small town just about 30 minutes away from the centre. The paradox thing is that you feel so far way at this place, as if you were in the middle of land surounded by nature even though the big city's not waiting far away from you.

The Tigre Delta is the place where many rivers run out from the big river "Paraná" which flows right from the Iguazú falls.

On the weekend, my hostfamily and me met their really nice friends and drove with their motorboat deeper and deeper over the rivers. I had so much fun on the boat because the friend drove so fast, the wind almost blew me away and the boat was going up and down.

Passing beautiful landscape with stunning trees and the endless water, I felt again, like so many times before, astonished by the pure beauty of nature. While crossing many houses placed near the shores to the river, always with a small bridge in front of it, my hostmother told me some things about this place.

The rivers were not very crowded at that time because winter is starting but, regarding my hostmother, in summer its full of boats and people in canoes.
Another important thing I noticed was the change of the air-it was fresh and appeard much cleaner to me than in the big city.

Along the river, apart from private houses, there existed restaurants, cafés and supermarkets as well-everything being reached by boat of course. Even a boat, crossing the rivers up and down the whole day, selled petrol and other important things like food. A taxi boat was also shipping people from one point to the other.

Arrived at the property of Martin, the father of the other family, a beautiful place expected us:. A cute house with two fireplaces, rooms for everyone to sleep in and a great view over the enormous garden planted with natural orange and manderine trees, palmtrees and other trees already colored in yellow and red because of autumn.

In the evening I ate a "Milanesa de berenjena"-like a german schnitzel only with aubergines, tomatoes and mozzarela. Really yummy!

The following and last day of my trip to tigre, we again drove by boat to the grand "Río Pananá", listened to some good argentine music and just enjoying, luckily, the good weather. As we returned back to the house, we made a barbecue-asado-the most tipical thing a "portenño" is doing on sundays. Apart from meat, they grilled potatoes, aubergines, pumpkins and paprika with eggs.

The few hours that were left untli we would return back to Buenos Aires, we spent our time on the shore, relaxing or reading and after the afternoon tea -"merenda"- we started packing the things on the boat...

2 weeks left of my argentinian exchange!



the "asado" house



driving fast with the boat...



relaxing on the beach...



friends & family <3

San Telmo & Plaza de Mayo

A trip before the Iguazu adventure, our german group went to the oldest "barrio"(district) of Buenos Aires. Its called "San Telmo" and is pretty popular to tourists. Its located very central and near the obelisc and famous "plaza de Mayo".

San Telmo is also the district of tango and I was so happy watching a pair dancing tango to great music in the middle of a plaza.

You could notice that it was old: the buildings werent that tall and there even existed an old market hall full of antiquitatic shops & fruit and vegetable stands.










the old marekt hall







a shop full of old stuff



a beautiful church we walked by



la pareja baila tangooo

On our way back to the "subte"-the subway-we crossed the famous square "plaza de mayo" with a great view to the most popular sign of Buenos Aires: el obelisco.



there it is!