Exploring and Eating in Buenos Aires. An Incredible City! 

I spent 5 weeks in Argentina in 2022 and watching this almost made me cry. I fell in love with the country and the people. Buenos Aires is my favorite city in the world. Also, if you get a change, go to the North of Argentina - mainly Salta and Jujuy. These regions are absolutely STUNNING!

I just back from my South America trip, Buenos Aires was my first destination I stayed only 5 days and unfortunately wasn`t enough time to see and understand this gorgeous city. Buenos Aires is so beautiful and attractive city. I am planning going back to this beautiful country and this beautiful city.

That's an awesome video, James. When my mom's family left Eastern Europe, half of them settled in BA and half in NYC. I've always wanted to visit BA.

I miss Buenos Aires so much... I even cried warching this video 😍😭 The energy, the people, the food...

Teatro Colon is the best acustic opera house in the world! Welcome!

I agree 👍 💯 the architecture of buildings in Buenos Aires are stunning !!! 😍 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇦🇷✈️💕💞

Great video! We recently also moved to Buenos Aires and love it! ❤🇦🇷😍

Thanks for carefully filming and documenting and sharing your wonderful life experiences in Buenos Aires. This has really opened up my eyes. I didn't realize how sophisticated and beautiful this country is. Very different from the images I conjured up as a younger person. Thanks for helping to open my eyes. Really enjoy the great travel vlog report.

Wow, this country is so beautiful!! I am putting it on my list as a must travel to destinations. Just the bookstore alone I wanna go to Buenos Aires for. Thank you for this video. I really hope you had the chance to get a skirt steak when you were down there. They are legendary for making that.😊

Great video! Your assessment on BA has moved up on my list of cities to visit!

Gracias por venir a visitarnos! Definitivamente Argentina tiene muchos mas lugares para que visites. Te esperamos nuevamente. Si quieres un excelente traductor para hacer el video en español, no dudes en consultarme ya que un amigo se dedica a eso. Gracias y Saludos!!!😊😊

As an argentinian myself i want to thank all the people who took the time to write beautiful comments about our capital city. From the bottom of my heart thank you so very much. And welcome to Argentina🖐️🖐️🖐️❤️❤️❤️

Awesome, James! I really need to get to South America. I never sleep on planes, so I get that. When I lived in England I was back and forth multiple times a year and never slept. The architecture most certainly looks beautiful, and under $3 for an opera?! Lincoln Center is doing it wrong! 😂 Safe travels good sir!

The Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires is one of the most important opera houses in the world. Its rich and prestigious history and the exceptional acoustic and architectural conditions of its building place it at the level of theaters such as the Scala in Milan, the Paris Opera, the Vienna Opera, Covent Garden in London and the Metropolitan in New York. Throughout its history, no important artist of the 20th century has failed to set foot on its stage. Suffice it to mention singers like Enrico Caruso, Claudia Muzio, Maria Callas, Régine Crespin, Birgit Nilsson, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, dancers like Vaslav Nijinski, Margot Fonteyn, Maia Plisetskaia, Rudolf Nureyev, Mijail Barishnikov, directors like Arturo Toscanini, Herbert von Karajan, Héctor Panizza, Ferdinand Leitner, among dozens more. It is also common that, following the tradition inaugurated by Richard Strauss, Camille Saint-Saëns, Pietro Mascagni and Ottorino Respighi, composers come to the Colón to direct or supervise the premieres of their own works. Finally, since 2010, the Teatro Colón exhibits a building restored in all its original splendor, giving a framework of distinguished hierarchy to its presentations. For all these reasons, the Teatro Colón is a pride of Argentine culture and a reference center for opera, dance and academic music around the world.

Hermosa Buenos Aires, COMO TODA LS ARGENTINA. SOY ARGENTINA!!!🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷💯💯💯🙌🙌🙌😘😘😘

The description of getting the "second wind" and the thought of being in a new country, far from home is a really great and straightforward description of that feeling :)

The beef and olive empanada looked like a winner..yum. funvlog and an amazing price for opera!!

Que bueno tu vídeo me encantó y como sabés apreciar lo hermoso y encantador que es Buenos Aires una ciudad maravillosa e increíble gracias por apreciar todo eso de mí hermosa ciudad abrazos genio!!!

Gracias por visitar mi hermoso país . Ojala regreses pronto. Espero lo hayas pasado muy bien . Abrazos ❤❤🎉🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🙋‍♀️

OMG. That City seems so beautiful! Greetings from Buenos Aires

James your videos are great and you deserve so many more subscribers! Amazing portrait of Buenos Aires and I had a good laugh and how you wrote the places names in the video. Keep up the great work, you earned a new subscriber :D

Great video. Thanks for going and visiting Argentina. I love this types of videos where Americans shows Argentina and at the end they fall in love w it. I moved to San Francisco a few months ago and now watching this videos makes me feel good.

Awesome video. You should go to Palermo to the Bitanical garden, Japanese Garden and the place that used to be the zoo. Beautiful Area.

I'm glad you've enjoyed your stay and shared such gorgeous views and reviews of my hometown with the world. Concerning your choice of food and places to eat, I think it's natural to search for what's familiar in a new city or country, especially if it's your first time or you don't speak the local language. Something similar happened to me when I visited Paris and I ate at McDonald's many times because it was handy and open 24 hours and I knew what I would get, not because I wasn't interested in trying local eats. And just for the records, I'm not American and these days I may have fast food only once in a while. ☺

Now that place looks very nice man…glad u picked to go here and I’m ready to see what else you end up doin…good job man

Excelente video James!! Gracias por compartirlo. Recomiendo que vuelvas en Septiembre u OCTUBRE donde la ciudad se luce al 100%

Thank you for such a nice review of my city. Please be welcome to come back soon. Great video! 🙌

Wow I love your reviews thank you

Im from BsAs but im living for 5 years in Utah and I hope soon visit my family there. Thank you for your amazing video in my city! And Argentina is part of the America continent (little correction)

Excelente video amigo. Saludos desde Buenos Aires!!

You're so nice!!! thank you so much for visiting my country!! :D

Congratulations for the video, you looked happy! 👍

Mi Buenos Aires querido… ❤ Buenos Aires, my hometown! Missing it

11:23 que elegancia señor 😎🎩

Sean bienvenidos! Al pais de la libertad! Thanks for this video

The beat city un the word!!! Is simple amazing, saludos desde Villa Celina Argentina

Hi! great video! im argentinian from La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province, you should visit this city is really beautiful and close to Buenos Aires city. One detail it's spelled "Plaza de Mayo"

I laughed several times during this video cuz of all the mishap 😂 but I’m glad you enjoyed your trip!

6:40 omg i forgot we have those useless napkins in Argentina 😂 I haven't been there in many years and I was feeling homesick, then this video showed up. Hope you enjoy your stay 🇦🇷

Fun Fact about Mostaza, it has been said that they only open stores near by McDonalds, because they now McDonalds studies the area before opening one, so they just copie them and don t wast money in the logisitcs of where to open

Great video! Will you be posting more videos of your time in Argentina?

Hola James! Para que tengas en cuenta, la proxima vez que vayas al teatro, pruebes hacer la costumbre de cenar despues de la obra de teatro o el cine. Muchos argentinos lo hacemos. Cenar entre las 9 pm y 11 pm es muy común. Espero puedas regresar un día y recorrer todo el país. Un abrazo

What a beautiful video about such a special place! I didn’t know about “Americana”, will definitely add it to the list, but for your next visit I can recommend empanadas from “mi gusto” - it’s another level 🔥

We are visiting Buenos Aires in January. Looking forward to it. I enjoyed your video. I understand your trip to McDonalds, upon arrival in Venice, we did the same thing, it was across from the our hotel - sometimes it a matter of convenience!

Gracias por tu nota soy Argentina y soy 'PORTEÑA'.

I was reading the comment and was confused why people were crying but after not being able to go for many years this video made me tear up and made me just miss my beloved country 😭😭🇦🇷

This video is amazing!

I am glad to know that you enjoyed my neighborhood so much. I also live in Congreso (Monserrat, as it is really called) In front of the starbucks there is a very good coffee shop and, if you walk in the direction of the congress, on your right hand, in front of the square, there is another excellent place. Next time, if you want a really good empanada, you should go to Guerrín. It is on Av. Corrientes.

What a great city. greetings from Buenos Aires

Great video! Although I was waiting for a ALW’s Evita reference/joke lol.

Solid editing!

Waxy napkins seems like quite the culture shock! But I'm glad that your travels went smoothly after a less than ideal flight experience.

Thanks for your video visiting my country in which you get to explore our local Mc Donald's and Starbucks cuisine. Well done Gringo! Don't miss out Burger King and Pizza Hut, those are A M A Z I N G!

What a teacher! I am glad that you liked Buenos Aires there, I would also like to visit the United States. Greetings from Mendoza Argentina i am storm chaser

I don't want to be rude, but you are in one of the best capitals in the world due to its culture and mainly because of its people. If you are going to explore it you have to really do it, I mean, go to cafes and restaurants that are not international chains (i think they are cuter and cheaper, sometimes). go to its parks (Japanese garden) and the "Rosedal" garden, could be some ideas. You also have a lot of museums and soccer stadiums that make this capital distintive from others. Also there is tourist buses to see the city that offer the narration in your native language so you understand what surrounds you, that could be practical i think. You also have bioparks like "Temaiken" , guided walks through the government's own tourism page, which is why they are not that expensive, the buildings that you fell in love with such as the Barolo palace, for example (the most beautiful and emblematic in my opinion, they offer you a guided tour that you can pay on the spot and it's not that expensive, you can go up to its dome and see the whole city, it looks beautiful and you can do this with others ones as "Otto Wulff" or even the cultural center) there is A LOT to do in Bs As. You even have nearby coastal cities such as Mar del Plata (beautiful) but it would be better in summer or spring and you would also have to visit other uniques provinces such as Misiones, Salta, Mendoza, Cordoba that have specific tourist spots that are beautiful and due to inflation and the exchange rate respect to the dollar, arent that expensive for an American, very cheap for such amezing experiences, indeed. I hope you take it as advice not criticism and also I hope that you enjoy your stay in our country, great video!!

Ive never been to buenos aires and I already know its my favorite city in the world

Next time you have to try another places to eat. There are so many spectacular places to know!! Just ask us and we’ll let you know 😊

Amazing videos like always✨ Btw what's ur primary profession? It's amazing that you're able to juggle b/w that and a RU-vid channel so well!

You missed the sculpture of ' The thinker' of Rodin, at the Plaza de Congreso. I really liked the way you showed the city in this video.

Congratulations on just getting through that hot mess of an Opera ... you're a better man than I.

Your cinematography is great, and so are your eyes. What r u using to film. Opera is wonderful. Thanks for your video

Hermosa ciudad

First of all, I can’t believe you ate at McDs and Starbucks for your first two meals?!? I have been to BA twice, once for 3 months and 2 months. I am going back in January for a month. The last time I was there was 2019 and the blue rate wasn’t that drastically different but now inflation is just crazy. How hard was WU to get money? Did you have to set up anything ahead of time back home before you went to BA? I don’t know if I want to do a Camino or WU? I did the Opera House tour when I went the first time. It was so informative and beautiful. Plus at the end they gave us free tix to dress rehearsal of “Porgy and Bess” for that night. I had to go home and eat and change clothes. Not really an opera fan but at least it was in English!

Sure hope you do more then fast food a parrilla, Pasta don’t overlook Italian in BA Cafe Tortoni or other classic cafe’s and if you want fast food hunt out street food 👍

Thanks for your vlog of your adventures in Buenos Aires. Looks like you had a great time! Did you check out more residential neighborhoods like Palermo and Belgrano? These areas have a more relaxing vibe compared to hustle and bustle of downtown.

mi país mi país. 🇦🇷❤️❤️

Soy hombre , pero no puedo dejar de decirte que salvo por tu dedo pulgar que se dobla más de lo normal sos muy bello y agradable

I don't know if you already left, but you can go to the top of Palacio Barolo, there are guided tours.

It is interesting to see how ppl from the Us refers to South America as a different continent. It is not the first time I’ve heard it.

Hi James. I will be going to Buenos Aires late August. Just to compare, what month of the year were you there? Thanks.

5:15 that's an ombu, and is actually a giant bush native to the Pampas, not a tree. By the way, did you just eat US food and fast food while in BA or did you try the local foods? (besides empanadas).

Awesome. Thanks for sharing your experience. Meaning to go to Argentina next year. Btw, which Opera was being performed that night? And did you have any safety concerns? Thanks.

buenos aires is like an italian city, or a french city, but with its own personality, and has incredible food and things to do. Theater in particular in argentina is the best of the spanish speaking world

Jajaja muy bueno tu vídeo!, Bienvenido!!!

Hi, Plaza de Mayo is "May's Plaza" named after the Argentine's revolution.

Hi James! Bienvenido! espero que te guste ! Argentina ☺ 🇦🇷 .

You can see an ever bigger tree in front of Teatro Colón, on Libertad street. Also, next time ask for a fried empanada! it's much better! I think they call them "cuyanita" in La Americana.

EN BUENOS AIRES HAY TRENES SUBTERRANEOS QUE TE LLEVAN A LOS LUGARES TURISTICOS MAS VISITADOS, COMO,PLAZA DE MAYO.🎉

Ps: we dont consider ourselves a different continent. We consider all "the americas" a single América (North, center and South América)

Leaving the USA, arriving in Buenos Aires and going to have a coffee at Starbucks when you are in the city of the most beautiful and richest coffees in the world, is almost a heresy in the religion of good taste, hahaha, but you are excused because you know how to appreciate good architecture. You need at least 2 weeks to record and get a basic idea of what Buenos Aires is like. Next time you come here you have to go eat at good places, like the parrillas that prepare the best meat in the world. The hamburgers at Mc Donalds Argentina have Argentinian meat, that's the difference. Very good video. see you !!!

Im an Argentinian Thanks for visiting

Todos aman Buenos Aires! La verdadera reina del Sur.

Thanks for visit my city country buenos aires

new continent? As far as I know, JFK airport is on the same continent as Buenos Aires.

Hey James!! Let me know if you came here again! I will me pleased to show you other fantastic places! Great to have you here my fiend! I hope you can came back soon!

Nice video! Welcome everyone

Hey I stumbled upon your video. I'm from Argentina. I can recommend some places in the city if you're still staying here!

You can't fool anyone by saying that Starbucks was the closest place with coffee where you were, in Buenos Aires there are literally cafés everywhere. You just have to open your eyes.

This is from 3 weeks ago or you recorded long time ago? Everything looks so cool

How did you get tickets for the opera? Just on their website?

Such a beautiful city! Did you travel solo? I feel like l can’t travel alone without my family or friends 😅

hey! those napkins are not for washing or cleaning your hands, those are for GRABBING the slice or the empanadas, to avoid the oil get in contact with your fingers, so grab like 4 of those napkins and grab everything with that :)

Divino Buenos Aires

WELCOME. EVER.

Thanks

Buenos Aires is surely the most cosmopolitan city in all of Latin America, with its wide avenues and Renaissance and eclectic buildings and its unique language, its art and people make it among the 20 most important cities in the world. I will be back soon!

Hello! Thank you for this video and for enjoying this country, it's indeed very beautiful and I look forward to your next video. Ignore the haters lol, it's typical to go to familiar places when traveling, when I went to NY the first thing I did was go to Starbucks, and Mc was practically all I ate in Paris XD. The main issues of why everybody here is so sensitive about the "continent thing" would be 1) the separation feels like a purposeful effort from countries from the north to separate themselves from latin America, like they don't want to be seen with us (I know, it's silly but it feels like that sometimes), 2)the other reason is because it gives usamericans the excuse to call themselves "Americans", thus erasing everybody else who also belongs to the American Continent and it's therefor also "American". But yeah, it's just a pet peeve here, we know it is taught in different ways and most of you don't mean any harm when saying it

The old tree in Plaza del Congreso it's a Gomero tree and it's 130 years old (I know, it looks way older). The Gomero is the rubber tree.

Beautiful! Buenos Aires is Europe 👏

There are even better pizzerias in BA. Haven't you tried world famous grill restaurants and Ice-cream? Weren't you at a soccer stadium or a night club? There is a bigger tree in Retiro.