Buenos Aires – We are in Argentina!
homer| July 19, 2025 4:39 pmWe left Uruguay this morning and landed in Buenos Aires in the afternoon. After checking into our hotel we stopped at the club lounge for tea time then went for a walk about.
Views from the tower.
For dinner, we found Vietnamese food! A food that I sorely have been longing…
First up egg rolls!
Next up Pho Ga! Yipeee!
Let’s talk money. The meal cost $59,900 Argentine pesos and the card was charged $49.51 USD. According to the exchange rate app, the charge should have been $46.60. We were warned that we would get “ripped off” if we used a credit card to pay for things here in Argentina but I think that is odd because banks typically set the best rates amongst themselves.
What I think is happening is that the exchange rate is so volatile that it does move in very rapid directions up or down on any given hour. As I typed this post, the exchange rate changed again from when we did the initial charge a few hours ago.
On our walk back to our hotel we stopped by a busy market street with lots of shops and lots of people. There were tons of leather goods, restaurants, and other shops selling various wares. It’s a busy bustling market place on a Saturday night.
Got back to the hotel very tired….more to do tomorrow.
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