Cruising to Antarctica and South America with many photos

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As we came ashore we thought that it would be interesting to revisit some of the places that we went to in 2013

 

 

First the 2013 photos followed by the 2019 photos

 

 

 

 

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Lunch at the Mercado

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the name of this beer and we both wanted to try one with lunch

 

 

 

We ate at this place in 2013 at almost the same table ( It was air conditioned on a very warm day )

 

 

 

 

 

They were all out of Patricia beer so we split  a 3/4 L of this

 

 

 

I had beef tenderloin brochette with onion , pepper and bacon

 

 

And she had rack of lamb - 6 chops

 

 

So yummy ! And of course we shared .

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We stopped to pick up some water

 



 

next we tried here next for water

 

 

Street walking

 

 

 

 

 

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A little walk on the deck to work off the big lunch . Oops , we're listing to starboard !

 

 

 

 

 

A picture window

 

 

 

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We had a ring side seats to watch the Sun's sail away in Montevideo

 

 

 

The video clips :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunless in Montevideo

 

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We  bought this 6.25 L of water  for $ 2.50 to refill our 1 L bottles that we paid $ 5.00 for on the ship . The small bottles cost 12- 1/2 times as much as the large one !

 

 

 

 

Leaving Montevideo

 

 

Navy ships

 

 

 

 

 

People fishing

 

 

On the horizon 

 

 

The next stop came with a advisory from the Captain

 

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After leaving Montevideo we were treated to a nice sunset

 

 

 

 

We had entered the murky waters of the Rio dela Plata en route to Buenos Aires on a warm overcast day . The blue water was gone , replaced with brown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ferry to Montevideo was clearing it's throat

 

 

Coming in for a landing

 

 

Edited April 9, 2019 by scubacruiserx2

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Moving out

 

 

 

 

We were docked next to these containers

 

 

 

Going in or out requires a bus ride 

 

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On our first day in BA we left the ship on the bus . At the terminal we met our guide  Elizabet from Tours by Locals and our driver .

 

 

There was a lot of traffic but we didn't go far . There was a photo op with perhaps Argentina's most famous soccer star Lionel Messi .

 

 

Not far away was a HUGE  Ficus tree that needed a little support with it's branches

 

 

 

We were headed to this church the Basilica Nuestra Senora del Pilar

 

 

A screen shot from Google Maps

 

 

 

 

[Copper10-8]

Awesome pics, thanks!

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4 hours ago, Copper10-8 said:

Awesome pics, thanks!

 

You're welcome . We had we a lot of beautiful subject matter to photograph .

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Our next stop was next to the church at  the famous La Recoleta Cemetery

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Recoleta_Cemetery

 

 

 

The Dorrego - Ortiz Basualdo Family

 

 

 

Admiral Guillermo Brown was considered to be the father of the Argentine Navy . He was born in Ireland and his tomb is painted green remembering his Irish roots .

 

 

 

 

Another amazing structure

 

 

[cat shepard]

Amazing tomb markers. They are too ornate to refer to them as stones.

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2 hours ago, cat shepard said:

Amazing tomb markers. They are too ornate to refer to them as stones.

 

Our guide told us that it was the most expensive real estate in Argentina . Over a million dollars a plot currently .

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Gulp. Too rich for my blood.

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12 hours ago, cat shepard said:

Gulp. Too rich for my blood.

 

 

Ours too but we can look .

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Most of the cemetery wasn't crowded but this is the one grave that most people come to see .

 

 

 

 

Evita Peron

 

 

 

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There are a number of interesting graves here with beautiful stained glass

 

 

 

You have to peek through the doors to see some

 

 

 

This cross was on the ceiling of a former President's grave .

 

 

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More from Recoleta  Cemetery

 

 

 

 

 

Pat and Elisabet were looking inside and this is what they saw

 

 

[puppycanducruise]

Well, I finally caught up.

Love your sunset pictures.

And that ficus tree - amazing.  I wonder how old it is?

The stained glass is beautiful.  I never thought I would like touring a cemetery, but now, maybe.

Thanks again for sharing with us.

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58 minutes ago, puppycanducruise said:

Well, I finally caught up.

Love your sunset pictures.

And that ficus tree - amazing.  I wonder how old it is?

The stained glass is beautiful.  I never thought I would like touring a cemetery, but now, maybe.

Thanks again for sharing with us.

 

Great , we do like our sunsets . I think that she said the tree was about 200 years old . We have something similar growing with our pine trees here . We also have 3 "spine babies " under some pine trees .

 

 

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More from Recoleta Cemetery

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The tomb with the wreath carved on it is amazing. Did you get a sense that this was a “one-up-manship” kind of place? Or were people simply trying to honor their loved ones?

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1 hour ago, cat shepard said:

The tomb with the wreath carved on it is amazing. Did you get a sense that this was a “one-up-manship” kind of place? Or were people simply trying to honor their loved ones?

 

I think both but our guide did mention that it was a competition .

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On 4/12/2019 at 4:49 AM, scubacruiserx2 said:

 

Most of the cemetery wasn't crowded but this is the one grave that most people come to see .

 

 

 

 

Evita Peron

 

 

 

 

Interesting tidbit (source Wikipedia)

 

The Argentine government took elaborate measures to make Perón's tomb secure. The tomb's marble floor has a trapdoor that leads to a compartment containing two coffins. Under that compartment is a second trapdoor and a second compartment. That is where Perón's coffin rests. Biographers Marysa Navarro and Nicholas Fraser write that the claim is often made that her tomb is so secure that it could withstand a nuclear attack. "It reflects a fear", they write, "a fear that the body will disappear from the tomb and that the woman, or rather the myth of the woman, will reappear."