Argentina: Buenos Aires

Snapshots from the metropolis.

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The microcentro skyline, Buenos Aires' financial district, captured from the window of my hotel.

On Calle Florida, the main shopping street

Wealthy porteños (as the inhabitants of Buenos Aires are called) leave their dogs in custody to "professional dog-walkers"

In front of the Catedral Metropolitana, in the central Plaza de Mayo

The newly refurbished posh neighbourhood of Puerto Madero

"Places of memory that we should never forget" - the infamous stages of the Argentine dictatorial military regime of the late 1970's

Tango show

Spring rain

The botanical garden in the Palermo neighbourhood

Saturday afternoon in Palermo

In the taxi, on the way to the airport