La Boca

If you look at any guide book for Buenos Aires, most likely the front cover is going to include bright, colorful houses. I've been in BA for a week, visited many different towns but no multicolored houses... until today!

The town is called La Boca. It's one of the poorer towns in BA along a now unused port so tourists only walk three different streets. The rest of the town is dangerous and mainly shantytowns. 

The houses are made of cheap iron metal and are painted different colors because the inhabitants were so poor when they built their houses that they used all they could scrap up from the ships coming into port. Piece of wood this part of the wall, cheap iron sheet for another, yellow paint on one part of the wall, blue paint for another... the beauty came from the poverty. 

Here there are many shops and cafes along the tourist roads that are all about Argentine culture. I bought my very first mate gourde! I'm excited to buy some yerma and socialize like a true Argentine!

Until next time, hasta luego!