Pictures and Friday 8/6

Ok so here's the pictures that I said were coming in the last post as well as yesterday's activities. There's also 2 videos from the San Telmo market! Enjoy!

Friday-8/6/2010

Yesterday I started off the day by going to Museo de Bellas Artes which is in Recoleta- a part of Buenos Aires. For one of my classes, I was required to go here to check out some of the paintings we have been talking about in class. This museum was really cool and it was free! From here a group of friends and I went to go eat some pizza which was probably some of the best pizza I have ever had! After lunch we strolled over to the United Nations Plaza. I didn't even know this existed, but we stumbled upon it! The U.N. Plaza is dedicated to being a free, welcoming green space that everyone can enjoy and it houses the Floralis Generica, which is a huge flower made out of metal. I guess it closes with the sun and opens in the morning like a real flower and it sits in a sea of water. After the flower we ended up going to Jardin Japones. Jardin Japones (Japanese Garden) is a garden that is really famous here. This place is beautiful and it exactly what it sounds like: a Japanese garden! So it has a lot of Japanese architecture and plants. It's a very tranquil space and just gorgeous. It has a huge pond running throughout the whole garden and there's tons of koi fish. There's also a museum and a Japanese restaurant in the garden. All in all this day was probably one of the best yet!

A whole view of Jardin Japones-- kind of hard to see

Jardin Japones continued

Jardin Japones (Japanese Gardin)-- very famous here!

Torrey and I in the midst of all of the beauty that is Jardin Japones!

Floralis Generica-- In the United Nations Plaza!

Recoleta (Part of the city)

In front of the Museo de Bellas Artes in Recoleta.

Sunday-- San Telmo Market

The first thing I have bought off the streets: they taste like honey roasted peanuts!

Some of the art being sold

Me with the Tango dancers of San Telmo

Mate gourds.. of course!

My new church! It's so beautiful!

Last Friday:

This is the art museum that we went to- MALBA

The group in front of MALBA

This was a bench that literally wound around the whole museum. Pretty cool!

My roommate Julie and I in front of Fabrica del Taco-Mexican food!

The inside of Fabrica del Taco- pretty festive!

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Videos from San Telmo:

These are both just of some of the street performers that come to San Telmo!