Wildlife and culture in Buenos Aires! It takes 42 to tango

Our third week opened with a surprising and welcoming Spring day. Against all ods, Autumn took the day off and our Sunday was beautiful and cheerful, ideal for our planned walking tour: Puerto Madero & La Reserva Ecologica. We learned and experienced a little bit about this new neighborhood and it's contradictions. Puerto Madero is the newest and most modern neighborhood in Buenos Aires, where all the streets have women's names. It is the most expensive place to live in the city, with fancy restaurants, but at the same time it coexists with much more humble, working class markets and foodtrucks. It has the most modern buildings and skyscrapers, but at the same it hosts "La Reserva Ecológica", 350 hectares of the biggest and most biodiverse green space in the city of Buenos Aires. So, we had lunch at "Barrio Rodrigo Bueno", a humble, warm and kind foodmarket inside Puerto Madero where we had some Parrilla and "Comida Peruana". While waiting for the food, some of the students didn't miss the oportunity to dance to Rosalia!

After lunch, we walked for only five minutes to enter a completely different world: "La Reserva Ecológica". We wandered around, inmersing ourselves into this wonderful wildlife. Every now and then, we got to see the skyscrapers and the busy city behind, which seemed unreal being surrounded by so much green.

On our way back, we passed by "El puente de la mujer" (Women's bridge), a famous bridge made by spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. A "Murga" was playing there, so, we enjoyed some minutes of percussion and some of us didn't miss the oportunity to dance a little bit again! We got the most out of this rare spring day in the middle of Autumn.

Monday arrived, and after classes and lunch we finally had an encounter with... TANGO! yes! On our third week we finally got face to face with real Argentinian Tango! So, we took some lessons with REALLY IMPRESSIVE RESULTS! Some of the students really got into it and were dancing after their first lesson! But, again, the highlight was to see how much fun they were having. Dancing, trying to dance, bumping into each other, laughs were everywhere!

And after our first Tango attempt, we got to be in a real "Milonga". So much fun and... this is just the beginning of our third week!