Buenos Aires – We are in Argentina!

We 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.