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Our Scavenger Hunt through Cementario de Recoleta
Yesterday, we took our first outing as tourists. We went to Recoleta's Cemetery which was first founded in November of 1822 and it is the burial place of choice for many of Argentina's elite- presidents, artists, generals, aristocracy, and most famously, Eva Peron (photo below).
The cemetery is located in walking distance to our apartment, so we set out with our guide books and took to the streets. When we arrived at the cemetery we purchased a really terrible map for AR $6 that was completly unorganized. We were told to look at Eva Peron's mausoleum and then go and wander around to the back of the cemetery to see the more artistic ones. We took the person's advise, but then after looking at our guide books we saw that there was a Top 10 Features list of other important people whose mausoleums were definitely worth seeing. We set out to find the other 9 listed in our guide book. However, by the time we decided we wanted to see these other features we only had the unorganized map to rely on so we didn't really know where we were going, but somehow we were successful in finding 7 features. I think a new goal might be to go back and find the other 3 features...perhaps we wait to take on this task with our first visitor!
Yesterday, we took our first outing as tourists. We went to Recoleta's Cemetery which was first founded in November of 1822 and it is the burial place of choice for many of Argentina's elite- presidents, artists, generals, aristocracy, and most famously, Eva Peron (photo below).
The cemetery is located in walking distance to our apartment, so we set out with our guide books and took to the streets. When we arrived at the cemetery we purchased a really terrible map for AR $6 that was completly unorganized. We were told to look at Eva Peron's mausoleum and then go and wander around to the back of the cemetery to see the more artistic ones. We took the person's advise, but then after looking at our guide books we saw that there was a Top 10 Features list of other important people whose mausoleums were definitely worth seeing. We set out to find the other 9 listed in our guide book. However, by the time we decided we wanted to see these other features we only had the unorganized map to rely on so we didn't really know where we were going, but somehow we were successful in finding 7 features. I think a new goal might be to go back and find the other 3 features...perhaps we wait to take on this task with our first visitor!
Amy,
ReplyDeleteTu y tu amiga parece que no saben que hacer con su tiempo libre. No puedo creer que lo pasaron buscando difuntos en un cementerio!!
Necesitan ir a una cafe al aire libre para conocer a nuevas personas y platicar con los habitantes para aprender lo que hay que hacer en BA especialmente para las jovenes como Uds. No te parece de mi sugerencia?
I'm so in. God knows I love a good scavenger hunt.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about you two this morning. I was on a call to a contact in Madrid who didn't speak English. I was using Google translator to "speak" to her. I'm 100% sure she told me my Spanish AND pronunciation was superb before handing the phone to an English speaker.
xo