Living in Buenos Aires and wanting to learn Spanish? Lucem Institute is offering special 15% discounts for groups in the month of July.
Lucem Institute is known for using the latest teaching techniques and materials, and putting a high emphasis on communication. They also organize a number of cultural and recreational activities to help students immerse themselves in the culture and the language.
Courses are 20 hours per week, or you can sign on for private lessons. Teachers are all University educated in the field of teaching Spanish and highly experienced with what they do. Private lessons are $45.00.
Some friends have informed me that the Argentine government has actually gone through with increasing the fee for overstaying your tourist visa from $50 pesos to $300 pesos for non-Mercosur residents and to $100 pesos for Mercosur residents. The change, which went into effect on April 21st, 2009, affects all foreigners in Argentina on tourist visas.
Tourist visas expire after 90 days, and there are three common ways that most choose to renew their tourist visa and continue residing in Argentina. They are the following:
1. Go to the Migraciones office at least a day before your visa expires and pay $300 pesos to extend your visa for 90 more days.
Cafe Tortoni is more than famous in Buenos Aires, it’s iconic. If it isn’t on your list of places to go, it should be. Even if just to say you had a cup of coffee there.
If you are looking for more on a night out to Cafe Tortoni, come and see the tango shows. Sure, there are plenty of tango shows in Buenos Aires, many of them better quality (and more expensive) but seeing a tango show at Cafe Tortoni is something special, and quite affordable.
Tango shows at Cafe Tortoni cost only $120 pesos for 2 people, and the show is quite enjoyable. The only complaint I have heard is that there simply isn’t enough dancing. Only about Read more
Dulce de leche is practically everywhere you turn in Buenos Aires… I mean, they even offer a special Oreo that is filled with dulce de leche instead of the regular cream filling. If you really want a sweet treat though, skip the Oreos and head to the famous Cafe Tortoni, known as the meeting point for some of the city’s greatest literary minds.
Cafe Tortoni offers a lot in the way of typical light food… but today we are focusing in on the sweet stuff. Dulce de leche, for those of you who don’t know, is basically caramel, but with milk mixed in (depending on which country and who is cooking, it varies, of course).
The on-hand summer’s guide to Buenos Aires is now available.
TimeOut Buenos Aires for Visitors Summer/Autumn 2009 edition takes you to the most popular places to see and things to do in the hippest city in South America.
The magazine is 150 pages of over 500 up-to-date reviews. Features include a list of the 25 best places to shop in BA, the best restaurants to eat at (including newly opened ones!) and the wildest places to party.
Check out the Buenos Aires for Visitors Summer/Autumn guide by clicking here.
Art is Buenos Aires can be found in many forms showcased in a variety of galleries and museums. For the “not exactly traditional” art crowd, check out Appetite, which specializes in a sort of punk-rock-style art.
If you’re into the avant-garde style Appetite has to be on your list of things to do in Buenos Aires. It so readily holds to the punk-rock ideals and showcases talented Argentineans and more.
Although it is located on one of the less exciting blocks in San Telmo, once you walk inside you are immediately transformed into the coutner-culture created by an underground movement much bigger than the walls of this gallery can contain. Everything from the ceiling to the floor is a Read more
When it comes to restaurants in Argentina, there is no end to the variety in both food and atmosphere. But one, for me, stands out from the rest as being unique, and that is Casa Saltshaker.
Casa Saltshaker is a closed-door restaurant where dinner menus are presented weekly, and served to an audience of no more than twelve in the apartment of Chef Dan Perlman and his partner and host Henry Tapia.
Dinner starts at 9:15, and guests are asked to arrive between 8:45 and 9:00. Part of the idea is to mix and meet new people, and so groups of 3 or 4 are usually the max. The plus side to that is there are 8 or 9 new Read more
Interested in peering into Buenos Aires’ past? Start at El Zanjón de Granados, a 175 year old mansion that leads to a series of underground tunnels that connect back to the city’s early settlements.
El Zanjón offers 1 hour tours through the museum housed there and the different levels of the city, leading all the way back to its earliest settlements, which date back to 1536. The tour costs $36 for adults and $18 for children under 16 years of age.
You can find El Zanjón de Granados at Defensa 755 in the San Telmo neighborhood.
The official web-site is http://www.elzanjon.com.ar/, although that doesn’t provide you with much information.
Despite the price tag for the tour, even a visit Read more
A friend recently tipped me off to an interesting little shop on Pasaje Rivarola, a block that is only about 100 meters long and is home to only 2 French style buildings, one mirroring the opposite. It is on that street that you will find El Cementerio de los Relojes (Clock Cemetery).
The fantastic little clock shop houses some amazing time keeping pieces, and is a nice little charming store to browse through, even if you aren’t a collector, it is a cool place to look around in.
The street is Pasaje Rivarola is located two blocks north of Av de Mayo. It is right between avenidas Mitre and Peron and between Uruguay and Talcahuano, tucked away.
There are plenty of fantastic ice cream joints to choose from in Buenos Aires, but for a reliable chain, head to Freddo. There are countless branches around town, and the chain has high standards that are upheld throughout the different locations.
Freddo started in 1969 as a family business, which was sold in the early 90s. After that it started to expand, and expand it has! Not only do they have a whole host of new flavors, they also have a Kosher line, and a gluten-free line, and serve Aerolineas Argentinas’s business class. You can even purchase ice cream online! (www.freddo.com.ar)
If you want the original goodness of Freddo, head to Perssico, the ultrapopular Read more
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