2 Weeks in Argentina

We spent just over two weeks traveling Argentina during end of January, beginning of February and it’s been one of our top trips we’ve done! We visited Buenos Aires, Bariloche, El Calafate, El Chalten, and Ushuaia. We hiked, ate amazing food, experienced the culture, went white water rafting, walked with penguins, and saw so much beautiful scenery.

In this blog I’m going to go over each location, what we did, travel tips, and what we loved/didn’t love about each place.

Buenos Aires

Day 1: Arrive, Settle in,

We started off our trip in Buenos Aires, arriving around noon, and checked into our airbnb in Palermo. I highly recommend staying in this neighborhood! Good location and close to so many cute cafes, restaurants, wine bars, etc. It’s an artsy, young neighborhood.

We walked to Birkin Cafe, roughly 20 minutes from our airbnb and had a wonderful meal and delicious lattes. Afterwards we walked through Jardin Botanicals (free) and absorbed all the beautiful nature right in the middle of this city.

One thing that surprised me about Buenos Aires is how much nature is in this city. Just naturally. It feels like they built the city in a jungle. We loved this about Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires is SUPER HOT, so pack accordingly and carry water with you.

We spend the evening at Wine Window, super cute place that has a wine window similar to the wine window in Florence but they actually have seating. We sat inside, ordered some snacks and wine then headed to La Cabrera for our dinner reservations. The meat here was incredible, this would definitely be my top recommendation for dinner in Buenos Aires.

Wine window and La Cabrera are pretty close, I think tying both of these together make for a really fun, romantic evening in Palermo.

Day 2:

We started off by heading to Cuervo Cafe in Palermo, highly recommend! We came here multiple time during our few days in Buenos Aires. Great coffee, good breakfast but not a lot of options, and I loved the vibe of this cafe. We then headed to El Atenea, the theater/book store in Buenos Aires.

This was our first day trying to use the bus system and it was very hard for us to find the card we were supposed to buy so honestly we just ended up ubering a ton in Buenos Aires, and I was shocked how cheap ubering was. Literally every uber we had in this city was only a few dollars. So I admit, we failed at the bus system in Buenos Aires…

El Atenea was cool to see but nothing I’d highly recommend. I wouldn’t go out of your way to come here. There is a cafe we tried to order some coffee at but the service was terrible. We ended up leaving because no one took our order after about 10 minutes of waiting.

Afterwards we walked to Recolleta, a neighborhood known as the Paris of Argentina. I kind of felt like a lot of Buenos Aires looked like Paris. We had some coffee and relaxed at a park for a little while.

We headed back to our airbnb, relaxed, then headed out to the Playo de Mayo area. We first stopped at Purple Wine nearby for a glass of wine then walked around this area. Playo de Mayo is the main square in Buenos Aires and all the buildings around here really make you feel like you’re in Europe. Really beautiful area.

Down the street we had our tango show and class and I was so excited for this! A tango show is a must do while in Buenos Aires, I mean tango was pretty much invented in Argentina!

We booked a show that came with a class, dinner and drinks. The class was super fun, it was about 30 minutes and it was all about having fun and socializing. I think we danced more with people other than our partners! And if you don’t dance you’ll be fine, like I said it was really more about socializing and we did learn a few tango moves. It was super fun.

Then our dinner was being served, food was decent, nothing amazing but good enough. Pretty typical for a big activity like this. We were also served wine which was a big plus.

Then around 9:45pm the show started. It lasted an hour and let me tell you it was incredible! The dancers, the singers, the band. These people are so so talented! We couldn’t take our eyes off of them. I highly recommend a tango show in Buenos Aires.

Day 3:

Today we had another slow morning and for the afternoon we had a 9 course meal at Fogon Asado. We booked this through Get Your Guide, and while this was expensive, all the food was amazing and such a unique dining experience. You watch the chefs prepare each meal, they give a break down of what it is and how its cooked, and everything was just so delightful. The ambience, the people, the food, the drinks. We did get a welcome cocktail but did not book the wine pairing (makes it much more expensive) however I did get a glass of wine that was one of the best glasses I’ve ever had.