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Abril 7, 2010 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: backpackers in buenos aires, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina | # Enlace permanente
Puerto Madero is one of the undisputable destinations of Buenos Aires. People enjoy the traditional walk by its docks, a dinner in any of its restaurants or the chance to grab a beer with some friends in its pubs. A walk through the parks, a picture along the old port cranes or in the famous Women’s Bridge is also a Madero classic. Nothing new we could tell about this place. But there’s something we must warn you, something you might be missing: what’s “beyond” Puerto Madero.
Puerto Madero is accessible from Downtown, four streets that will take you to the Alicia Moreau de Justo Ave., the main street. Crossing the docks, you’ll get to the area called East Madero. Lots of restaurants and offices, a contemporary art museum and the boutique hotel “Faena” are its highlights. Behind this line, towards the river, it’s the other side of Madero, called the Costanera Sur (South Riverside Path).
Once a privileged walk for the Porteños, the Costanera Sur has regained importance as it’s been renew by the growth of Puerto Madero towards the River Plate. The Boulevard de los Italianos, the Calabria Ave., Hernán Giralt St. and Achával Rodríguez St. are the paths, surrounded by parks that frame the area. The kings of those streets are the most famous street food stalls, the “chiringuitos” that sell great Argentine meat and the superb
“choripán”.
Beyond Puerto Madero you’ll find the Nereidas Font, one of the most important sculptures of Buenos Aires, made by Lola Mora. An amphitheater that every weekend presents music and theater shows, a long concrete walk, the old city beach with its large streetlamps that lighten the grass lands that are occasionally covered by the river, and the City’s Natural Reserve. Beyond Puerto Madero there’s much to know, don’t you miss it!
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Abril 5, 2010 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: backpackers in buenos aires, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina | # Enlace permanente
The perfect company for a gathering with friends in Argentina is the “picada”. It’s a food formed by many different elements that offers a variety of flavors and ingredients. Similar to Spanish tapas, Italian bruschetti or Mexican tacos and quesadillas, the Argentine picada is the best option to accompany a drinking session, usually involving beer or wine.
Among its traditional offer you can find: every kind of cold meats (generally traditional and Parma ham and salamis), cheeses (we prefer the solid varieties as the local “Mar del Plata cheese”), olives (stuffed and pitted), peanuts and all kind of chips. It usually comes with different types of bread and may include any other ingredient that can be presented in a reasonable quantity.
The main idea of the picada is to present food that doesn’t need a knife, a fork or a spoon to be eaten. Things you can grab with one hand (that’s why napkins are also needed!) while you hold your drink with the other. The presentation of a picada is done in many different small containers, some large containers with small divisions and wooden boards.
The picada is a ritual that you share with your friends in pubs, at dusk or at night. It’s also the most common invitation if you visit a friend house and a necessary option before eating the Argentine barbecue, the asado. There are simple versions, almost minimal, with salami and cheese; and more refined ones prepared by caterers in gourmet versions. The thing is that you Porteño experience will not be complete until you have order a good picada.
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Marzo 17, 2010 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: backpackers in buenos aires, Boca Juniors, diego armando maradona, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina, Hostel in Buenos Aires | # Enlace permanente
The best football/soccer player of all times -according to a survey made by the FIFA web site- Diego Armando Maradona has many places in Buenos Aires that depict him. Although he was born in the outskirts of the city (in Villa Fiorito, Lanús neighborhood, south border of Buenos Aires), he lives nowadays here and has spent most of his active player life in its fields. Hostel Colonial suggests you three places to find Maradona in Buenos Aires.
Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, La Paternal: the home team here is Argentinos Juniors, the club where he started his career and where he played between 1976 and 1980. When the stadium was redesigned in 2003, both its President and the fans chose to name it after the current Argentine team coach to honor him. The club is located in the residential neighborhood of La Paternal. The main entrance is on 1271 Punta Arenas St. The outside walls are covered by paintings where you will find “El Diego” (as he’s called by his followers).
Boca Juniors Stadium and Museum, La Boca: perhaps the place that most identifies with Maradona. The team where he became world famous and the one he supports. He played there in 1981 (winning the local championship) and returned to end his career between 1995 and 1997. He has an Executive Box in the Stadium and assist to every game Boca plays there. In the “Pasión Boquense Museum” you’ll find different objects and memories of his years in the team. The Stadium and the Museum are located on 805 Brandsen St., La Boca.
Villa Devoto neighborhood: is a residential neighborhood in the northwest of the city. Maradona has always lived here while staying in Argentina. First, in a house (in José Luis Cantilo St., between Marcos Paz St and Segurola Ave), where his fathers live now, and in these days in a three floor apartment in 4310 Habana St. (on the corner of Segurola Ave). In front of his current house you can regularly find all kind of presents that his followers leave. Plus, this beautiful neighborhood is worth a visit.
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Junio 29, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Buenos Aires Blog, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina, Hostel in South America, Hostel in Tumblr | # Enlace permanente
Buenos Aires has everything and everything is all you need for this
Winter Season in South America. There are a lot of great places to visit in
Argentina but most are far away and would require more time.
Buenos Aires is the place to land and start to make plans, consider options thinks about where to go, make choices and decisions.
There is a lot of very good suggestions for you on translated local websites, this
blog , a real
Buenos Aires Blog is one of this, our
blog running on
#WP is other option in
Spanish and our
Tumblelog is 95 %
Buenos Aires photography, in French the
Routard. Lonely Planet,
Footprint are options in
English, or just in the front desk of the
Hostel Colonial that present lots and lots of information which you could get the fixtures for your trip and how to book tickets to different points, for example a day trip close by or you just could also go to
Tigre (by boat or by coastal train), the
Delta of Tigre is really nice and is about 1 hour on the train to the North. Maybe a little jump on a day trip to
Colonia,
Uruguay, (maybe even 2-day to
Montevideo),
Colonia is a
World Heritage Site and well worth half a day to see it. Or maybe even better if you haven’t been there, a trip to
Iguazú Falls.
Another option is to go to a typical “
estancia” for a day or weekend and do some horseback riding there and enjoying a good
Argentinean “
asado” (
charcoal grill cooked meat). There are some good ones in
San Antonio de Areco.
Social aspects
The
Buenos Aires winter may not be as frigid as in many other countries, but the way the “
Porteños” (the citizens of
Buenos Aires) complain, one would think they were in the Arctic Circle. The “
queja” or the complaint, in
Buenos Aires also a
Buenos Aires hallmark. In winter, the queja is extreme, while the weather might not be — which also introduces the queja’s best friend:
exaggeration. Is mix with sense of humor that gives a fun peek into the daily life.
You will also heard that quite often there are big international bands tours coming to the city- rock/pop/whatever, who come to Buenos Aires will be able to find anything like some very local sounding bands and
Tango. Talking about parties nothing change every day goes on in different areas of
Buenos Aires, the Federal District, the “
Porteños” in winter are more likely for parties and being among others in closed buildings.
While you could doubt for a moment for a simple luck of knowledge having a spare time and lodging in a
Buenos Aires Hostel named
Colonial for vacation you will exhaust the delights of
Buenos Aires.
Mayo 20, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: argentina, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina, Hostel in Buenos Aires | # Enlace permanente
Buenos Aires, locations for film. This is a promotional publication that brings together more than 300 photos and 350 pages to realize the great variety of places, sites and cities where you can shoot in the province of Buenos Aires.
In the official website you can read this:
“The province of Buenos Aires has a large territory with a wide variety of natural scenery, land and sea, rural and urban architecture, with the infinite possibilities that each of these categories contains. Account in their territory of more than 300 square kilometers, with a particular diversity of landscapes: seacoast and river, delta, islands, plains, mountains.
The varying density and different forms of life offer to the rural and urban architecture, both modern big cities and small remote sites and historic districts.
The great architects who left imprint on the landscape and the monumental architecture draws a map on its own province. These features reveal a multiplicity of styles runs the scenarios of the province, giving an advantage to secure a wide range of film locations.”
Undoubtedly it´s a great initiative, incidentally, a short distance from Hostel Colonial, for this reason I´m interested in spreading the places closest to the hostel and invite our guests you to know.
The city of Buenos Aires and the province of Buenos Aires are two different things, very close to each other, the borders are the General Paz Avenue and the famous “Riachuelo“. That all begins and ends.
If you’re staying in Hostel Colonial, we want you to know these two Buenos Aires.
Mayo 14, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Blog about Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Blog, Google, Hostel Blog, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina | # Enlace permanente
Hard work. I always think if you were doing well. I think so. Google Hostel Colonial Buenos Aires if you’re not sure, I tell everyone who consults me (and each day more), hum, well, my intention is to make life easier, so it was Google and these are the results:
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Need to know more about Hostel Colonial? 866 published posts, hundreds of photos of the hostel and the city of Buenos Aires, all the social networks in which I participate. It’s all here, in this blog, in this hostel blog, in this Buenos Aires blog, I like this.
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Mayo 9, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Buenos Aires Blog, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina, Hostel in Buenos Aires | # Enlace permanente
Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a well, nice and cheap destination. On Monday, in this blog, a topics series so you know why Buenos Aires remains one of the most beautiful and cheap cities in the world.
Prices and offers to Buenos Aires to be your next destination and Hostel Colonial your next accommodation in this city.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, your money is more money.
Abril 23, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Buenos Aires Blog, Buenos Aires Neighborhoods, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina, Hostel in Buenos Aires, Hostel in South America | # Enlace permanente
Breaking the blogging rulez again! A Buenos Aires neighborhood long post, today Chinatown.
Sunday is the perfect day to tour Chinatown in Buenos Aires. Asiatown actually be the most appropriate way to define these 4 blocks of Belgrano neighborhood Downtown, whose epicenter is Arribeños Street, near the railway station who´s name is Belgrano “C”.
Asiatown Why? Because, although dominated by Chinese traders there are also Taiwanese and Japanese (Dashi Restaurant), save the first mistake.
The second mistake, seen in some reviews, is believing that everything is written in Mandarin, something almost impossible because of the complexity of the ideograms and basically because Mandarin is more colloquial, as some traders consulted told me, which I´m guided by corner of their premises with great sympathy and seeks to integrate his universe, and something that many appreciated.
Traits of ancient culture and the feeling of having made a journey across the world but only a few steps from Hostel Colonial. So let´s Come for a walk …….
Within a radius of four blocks, with a focus on the Arribeños Street between 2100 and 2200, can be heard at least five languages, buy exotic fruits, see an acupuncturist to try and multi-ethnic dishes. Asiatown succeeds transportation to other different places of the planet. Some also believe that it should be named like; Eastern District of China, home to Taiwan.
Those who first disembark bring us back in the 80´ years when Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Thai add themselves too on the multicultural “Buenos Aires Asian District“, and while it is a minimal domain comparing to the Chinatowns of New York or San Francisco, it also doesn`t definitely lacks identity and there’s so much to see there that still someone with a curious spirit might take an entire afternoon wondering around or going for quiet walks during the week except Monday which is a rest day, although a Chinese program in essence represents a more populous, and these are Saturdays and Sundays, just behind the railway station. The first view: Gift stores are wearing Mao collar and fans make up a large and colorful repertoire to note some of glamour.
The Chinese markets, are a world within the world, where you can find what they are anywhere else in Buenos Aires. Casa China was a pioneer in imported products from the East with a variety and quality. Its shelves are popular with chefs, celebrities and tourists. What are the most searched Shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, green tea, tofu, sushi rolls, sesame oil, Szechuan pepper, sweet potato noodles and shrimp snack. The largest branch of China House (Casa China) at 2257 Arribeños Street that has a good selection of fresh fish at reasonable prices.
Also discover the litchi, a fruit pulp candy thin red skin and rough, the top floor is dedicated to the oriental dishes, tea sets are of clay, a few specimens of old China and porcelain cast iron teapots as well as Japanese porcelain. Central Asia, in Mendoza Street here you will find an exciting mix of rice and electric woks, and bag of rice (30 kg), which the Orientals loaded to three accounts is $ 150 out …
Apart from two temples, one Buddhist Kuan Chong and other evangelical Sinheng, which offers courses in Chinese, a couple of herbalists and houses dedicated to the sale of soy products, dominated by beauty salons with a customer 100% East.
You already know, this is the Buenos Aires Chinatown. A few days on Sunday. I think if you stay or live in Buenos Aires is a great program.
Abril 4, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Argentina | # Enlace permanente
A pocas cuadras de Hostel Colonial, bajando por la calle Tucumán hacia Puerto Madero, llegamos a la Recova de Além, viejo refugio de personajes tan disímiles como armadores de diarios, marineros y prostitutas, otra época de Buenos Aires, contrastando con la Plaza Roma y la modernidad los edificios de Catalinas Norte.
Abril 1, 2009 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Backpacking XP, Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel in Argentina, Hostel in Buenos Aires, Hostel in South America | # Enlace permanente
Without any doubts, as any backpacker, I have had a notebook of notes to immortalize and to retain the experiences and moments lived during the course of my trips.
This need to create record of the trips is a custom and very ancient fascination that shared some famous personalities of the history as Van Gogh, Hemingway, Darwin and Picasso among others.
This custom gave origin to the famous notebook “Moleskine“, of which I´m a fanatic it might say. Its more famous impeller was Bruce Chatwin, who used these notebooks in all his numerous trips. Chatwin’s original source of notebooks disappeared in 1986, when the owner of the distribution in Paris where he was buying them, died taking the secret of the manufacture to the tomb.
The modern Moleskine is formed thanks to Chatwin’s descriptions brings over of the notebooks that he used. Always I felt, the lack of a particular Moleskine with info of our city, enjoy this falling in love for the binnacles, tape-worm the sensation that something like that was absent.
Searching for the entrails of these bookshops that I´m in the habit of crossing in my few free moments to the end I found, the “Viácora“, a binnacle, of the city of Buenos Aires. Organized by zones, activities, planner with cards and maps, no doubt is a very good option that complements tourist information in local language and English with a space for personal notes.
”Viácora” is a travel book, a notebook for the one who wants to take a complete recollection of her/his own trips as Buenos Aires, with a simple format and handcrafted, with soft textures that it fulfills satisfactorily with its aim to enjoy.
To announce it not only I recommend it from our blog but we have incorporated to Hostel Colonial, offering the possibility to our guests of whom they leave their commentaries or regards us in this particular notebook. It´s very pleasant to hoard the impressions registered from the travelers who pass and leave their fingerprint printed in the Hostel Colonial.
Price in Buenos Aires bookstores $a 99
Puerto Madero is one of the undisputable destinations of Buenos Aires. People enjoy the traditional walk by its docks, a dinner in any of its restaurants or the chance to grab a beer with some friends in its pubs. A walk through the parks, a picture along the old port cranes or in the famous Women’s Bridge is also a Madero classic. Nothing new we could tell about this place. But there’s something we must warn you, something you might be missing: what’s “beyond” Puerto Madero.
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