First Time in ARGENTINA! 🇦🇷 (not what we expected) - Buenos Aires Vlog

Literally the mosquitoes are so bad. And it's called mosquito. Honestly I wasn't expecting the amount of people that were like kind of hounding us. Prices here are crazy. U.S. dollar powerful. What? For our first time in Argentina we'll explore the sights, food, and culture of its capital city Buenos Aires. It's the birthplace of tango, a hub of famous bookstores, and it supposedly has the most European looking architecture of any South American city. Welcome to Buenos Aires. Today we're going to explore the city, check out the sights, and experience Argentinian culture for the first time. We're super excited and we're starting out today in the Plaza de Mayo which is right here in the center of the city. That's the Casa Rosada which is the pink house. It's actually where the president lives. So instead of a white house like we have in the U.S. it's a pink house. They just had a new election like last year so there's a different president in office currently. A ton of Spanish and just European influence here. Like all the buildings seem straight out of Europe. I would have to agree. Yeah there's actually more Italian descendants or ancestry than Spanish here. Funny enough. So you see a lot of pizza restaurants too. What's happening? I have no idea but they're marching. There were so many. I know. Literally the mosquitoes are so bad. I've probably seen like four or five people that are like local and tourists all slapping mosquitoes away. Look at this. You can see them on my leg right there. Look at all these bites. This is ridiculous. Got it. They're big boys. There's another one. There's another one. They're meanies. Here show this. Look at all these. They're all dead. As you'd expect a lot of nationalistic pride going on. That's a huge Argentinian flag. I honestly think it's one of the most beautiful flags in the world. The blue and white stripes with the sun right in the middle. What's the name of that building? Museo Nacional del Cabildo de Buenos Aires y de la Revolución de Mayo. Wow. Anyways though what's so cool about the Plaza de Mayo is that there are so many different buildings like surrounding it that are also pretty famous too. Just like the building that I just said and also the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires which is right over here. Neoclassical is the artwork and it's just super cool. I really really enjoy this area. We haven't really seen like plazas and parks in a really long time so it's refreshing. Honestly just so beautiful here. Look at those buildings. If you just dropped me here and didn't tell me where I was I would totally think we were in Paris. Really? Yeah I mean just look at those buildings. Honestly I wasn't expecting the amount of people that were like kind of hounding us to like buy things or like begging for our money. No gracias. For some reason I wasn't expecting that here. Even in the tourist areas I figured it would be more chill just because this isn't like a very super super popular tourist destination but there kind of is a lot of people. Hey hustlers gotta hustle you know. Yes. Boy that Argentinian sun on the flag is real. They have a lot of sun down here. Yeah they do. So walking down the street and we found a bunch of souvenirs with this character called Mafalda on it and we looked it up and apparently it's an Argentine cartoon strip that represents Argentinian like middle class and progressive youth and it has a six-year-old Mafalda on it and it's super popular here and super cute. One of the shirts that she's on says this world is a soup. Relatable. Yeah yeah tell me about it. So we're currently crossing Avenida Nueve de Julio which is the July 9th Avenue. It's actually the widest avenue in the entire world clocking 110 meters which is actually the length of a football field. It actually takes kind of a long time to get across. This is only one portion and then you have a bus portion which we're about to cross now. Two lanes of buses and then there's the exact same going the opposite direction and it's one of the most famous streets in Buenos Aires. Right now it does not feel like we're in the middle of two super busy streets. No it's incredibly spread out so it's kind of hilarious. It's like no man's land. And this thing is the obelisk of Buenos Aires. And it was built in I believe 1936 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Buenos Aires founding. So it's a really really old city actually and it's called Mosquito. I was gonna say it's called July 9th Avenue because that is the independence day of Argentina. So many mosquito bites. Oh my word yeah your leg is like bitten. I don't think I've ever seen your leg that covered. I've seen my legs that covered because I'm just prone to them but not Wyatt. Usually I'm pretty immune. They just love me here. Yeah the city is just so gorgeous. I have the Parque Lavalle or in Argentinian Spanish the Parque Lavalle and then I have the Teatro Colon over here. So Teatro Colon translates to Christopher Columbus theater and it's actually an opera house and it's frequently judged to have the best acoustics in the entire world. All the materials were brought from Europe to design it and construct it and oh what's his name Pavarotti Lucino Pavarotti. He was like yeah the theater has only one defect. It's perfect. Soccer pong. Pretty cool. Soccer culture is very very alive here. They say it's a way of life. Argentina actually won the world cup in 2022. That was so nice. She gave us bug spray. She saw me slapping like six mosquitoes in a row and she's like do you want some of this? I was like yes. All right now we're gonna do the tango. They have like a tutorial. All right here we go. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Tango was actually invented in Buenos Aires and it originally started because it was a dance between pimps and prostitutes actually. So it has kind of like seedy origins but then it went to Europe and Paris and popularized in ballrooms and stuff and now it's kind of like more formal. So fun. But it's like a UNESCO heritage approved dance form. This line we're passing that whole line is for the bus and every bus we've seen it's been just packed full. Look at how long that line was. It's so packed. It's so full. I guess public transit's popular. Next stop is the El Ateneo bookstore which is supposedly one of the most famous and beautiful bookstores in the world. Wyatt's super excited about this one. He's the reader. Yeah I was an English major in college and I read every day so should be pretty cool. Let's go. Let's do it. What? Literally the ceiling has like beautiful artwork on it. Frescoes apparently they call it. That is a quadruple deck all the way around. Straight up theater in here. So cool. The one problem with bookstores in foreign countries is I always want to buy a ton of books and then they're just in a different language. I've tried reading in Spanish before. It's so hard. So hard. Also on the far end of the bookstore they have a little cafe you can chill at. It seems quiet for reading for sure. Just look at how beautiful that is. Honestly insane. Again it feels like an opera house or a theater but then it just has multiple tiers of books and albums and movies. Super cool. How often does a bookstore have a escalator? Crazy. They also have a junior section for the young kids and on the front side of it is a bunch of records. Yeah Argentinian albums. Adele? Is Adele there? Yeah. Oh yeah you didn't know she was Argentinian? Alrighty I think we're gonna head out. Little look inside of an Argentinian grocery store. Veggies. Prices here are crazy. So that uber costs three dollars. I don't know why. Something with the economy international relations but U.S. dollar is powerful here. So we're gonna get some fuzzy. This is uh what is fuzzy? Soda water. Yep and we are addicts. Absolute addicts. Thanks to Rika's family. Chocolate mousse cake thing. 15 pesos. So what 10 cents? 10 cents. Crazy. Here is Argentinian money. Thousand pesos. All right now we're going to Big Pizza which is a huge chain here that sells well pizza and also empanadas. And they have this deal where you get like five dollars U.S. for like six empanadas and a pizza. So we're gonna get it. Buenas noches. Hola. Alrighty let's take this home. This only costs like seven dollars. Huge pizza. Six empanadas. Okay who else is with me? Rika is a wait till you get home and eat it kind of person. I am a eat it on the way home. I cannot wait but she likes to wait to enjoy it. Who's with me? We're talking about how similar it feels to Europe. Even the buildings feel like they feel like they're straight out of Spain. They smell the same. The locks are the same. Every person has to lock it when you're coming in and out. We're in an Airbnb. Probably just got super echoey because it's all tile. But then you have these weird elevators. Double door open. Maybe they're not weird. Maybe they're just older. I don't know. They freak me out. Yeah they're kind of scary. So you have to manually close the door. Sorry for the close camera. It's literally just tight in here. So you have to close that and then close that. And then right when we press this button it's going to immediately launch up. Ready? Yep. It kind of scared us the first time. We're used to it now but also there's two level ones. Punta Baja and then this is the first floor is the first floor up. Goes quick though. Oh we should use that mirror. Yeah. I can't see you guys. Theoretically if you wanted to screw the whole building never close it and no one can use it. Okay let's go inside. Just a cozy Buenos Aires Airbnb. How do you flip it? 20 bucks a night. This is what you get. Look at this. Huge living room. Workstation. Bathroom. Bidet. Bedroom. Kitchen. Which we've been powering some bread and olive oil and hummus. Hummus. Oh hummus. Let's chow. Yeah. Okay quick food scene. Empanadas are a super famous food here in Argentina. Yep. They're famous all over Latin America. It's essentially like a dumpling with very flaky dough and it's crispy. We got ours with what? Broccoli and cheddar? And um. Oh mushrooms. Mushrooms. Yes. Yeah. Cheers. Cheers. Really good. Amazing. It's just so crazy how cheap Argentina has been. There's food. Seven dollars. This 20 cents. Our water. Huge thing of fuzzies. There's Airbnb. $20 a night and it's like center of Buenos Aires. Great neighborhood. And this is just a pizza. But they are a lot of Italians. They're all Italians. Ton of Italians. They even have their own Italian hospital here. But yeah classic. Seems like kind of an American pizza honestly. Yeah. Cheers. Delicious. All right I'm gonna try the Milka which I've seen in so many different grocery stores around here. And it's basically just like a cookie or like a mud pie that we have in the states. Very similar. Chocolate. Oh it's melting. It's really good. It has a chocolatey outside and then a crunchy graham cracker like inside. I really enjoy it. It is like a cookie. Like chips of what? Nice. All righty that wraps up our first impressions of Argentina. I guess first impressions of Buenos Aires to be real. We've heard that the rest of the country is a lot different from the city. All right stay tuned and make sure to subscribe. Peace out. Bye.