We will dock in Buenos Aries around 8:00 am. We have a Tango Show and dinner with Maria tonight and don't expect to get back to the ship until around midnight.
We have nothing planned tour-wise, but Stephen expressed an interest in visiting the Recoleta Cemetery (Cementerio de la Recoleta). This is a very impressive area of huge musoleums and where Maria Eva Duarte (Evita Peron) is buried. Son-in-law Stephen and I visited this when were where her in December, but son Stephen did not.
The plan for the day therefore became that we would walk to the Recoleta area (about 2 miles), which is also the location of the Alvear Palace Hotel where Maria is staying, and visit the cemetery. Then we would walk over to the Hard Rock Cafe for a light lunch, and tees shirts for the grand kids, before meeting Maria in the afternoon. Maria and Stephen have never met, so I wanted to give them some time to get acquainted.
We have reservations to be taken to the Rojo Tango Show at 8:30 pm. After the show (around 11:30 pm) we would be taken back to the hotel where Stephen and I would Uber back to the ship. My only concern was to be able to communicate exactly where we wanted Uber (or a taxi) to drop us off.
We passed the bus station and rail stations on the walk up to the cemetery.
It did not take too long to find Evita's tomb. There is always a crowd of people hanging around it.
Our light lunch consisted of a plate of nachos which we could not finish!
We met Maria at 3:00 pm in the bar of the Alvear Palace. We had a drink and chatted. Then we took off to visit the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Muesem).
After the museum, we returned to the hotel and went to the bar on the roof. Maria said that it was voted one of the best roof bars in the world by the readers of Travel and Leisure Magazine. Frankly, none of us could understand why?
Finally, it was 8:30 and time to start for the show. The show did not actually begin until 10:30. We arrived around 9:00 pm and had our dinner. When we visited Buenos Aires back in December on the Viking cruise, we attended the show at La Ventana. It was crowed, noisy and the food poor. I was led to believe the Rojo show would be different. It was. In contrast with the hundreds of guests at the La Ventana, there were probably 60-70 guests and there were no empty seats. At the La Ventana, we sat should to should at "picnic" like tables. Here, we were seated at a table for four. The La Ventana was so loud, you could not carry on a conversation. Here, it was very quiet and very calm. The food here was good.
As was the case at the La Ventana, no photography was permitted during the show. It was a good performance. Maria said it was better than she expected and Stephen said he enjoyed it as well.
We found our driver waiting for us outside and on the way back to the hotel, he offered to drop Stephen and I off at the ship terminal, saving us the trouble of Ubering back from the hotel. We got back on board about midnight.
