Our 10.5 hour overnight flight to Argentina was so much easier on my jetlag than flights to Europe! Although long flights are never fun, it definitely helped flying south and to a similar time zone.
BENS L’Hotel Palermo is located in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The hotel and the neighborhood are beautiful – tree-lined streets, steak houses, Serrano street market, and galleries.
I hired a private guide for a 4 hour city tour. Juan with De Passeios Tours picked us up at our hotel and we started at El Ateneo Bookstore, a gorgeous former theater. Plaza de Mayo had beautiful Jacaranda trees in bloom. I really liked the colorful buildings and amazing street artists in La Boca. The Cathedral was Pope Francis’ home church before moving to the Vatican. Recoleta Cemetery is most famous for Eva Peron’s tomb. Juan dropped us off at San Telmo Market for dinner at the end of our tour. The market had antique stalls, fruit and spice stands, and grills that smelled so good.
