Exploring Colonia & Tango in BA

Good rest, bed a tad soft for me due to a rather thick mattress topper. For Hesk he slept a solid 9 hours. Breakfast the best yet, so much so we won’t need lunch.

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Colonia del Sacramento, the old part, is relatively small. We only changed US$10 in order to pay the small entrance fee to the limited but interesting museums. Really only need a couple of hours to see everything. However chilling in the pretty Hotel garden overlooking the river, sipping wine and beer, is a pleasant way to relax before our boat trip back to Buenos Aires.

Having toured this well preserved World Heritage site we headed back to our hotel gardens to relax prior to taking the ferry back. It was a hot balmy afternoon.

Thankfully the ferry was almost to time. Really don’t bother with paying any extra for business class! The crossing is only an hour. Taxis were available at the port but no queuing system, which meant no taxi willing to take you anywhere on a meter. So we had to negotiate a fixed price, basically double the normal rate, still only around US$11 for a 30 minute ride. The Mine Hotel had returned all our stored luggage and returned laundry to our new room.

After a refreshing shower, we headed off for a drink and a snack prior to being collected at 21.30 for a Tango Show at Cafe de los Angelitos, also recommended by Lonely Planet. We had opted for just the show and no dinner, a good call as didn’t look great and the extra charge was huge. Even our hotel had agreed, don’t do the dinner. We paid US$60 cash per head for the show, an extra $10 if paying by credit card which also meant payment in Pesos at their exchange rate. Add another US$30 a head for dinner, cash or a total of US$110 per head if paying by CC, somewhat overpriced in our opinion. We were offered a starter or desert with the $60 ticket plus wine and water. The desert was a tiny pavlova, 2 inches diameter, that was OK or we could have had 2 empanadas (like a small Cornish pastie). The wine was not great, but the water sufficed! The show entertaining, basically demonstrating Tango from the 1920’s onwards, with some songs being blasted out in between. The dancers were very skilled and fun to watch. However we have been told of a park that we should visit on Sunday at 19.00 to watch more spontaneous and almost certainly less touristy dancing. In the end it was quite an exhausting day as we only got into bed at around 1 am. Must be getting old😂

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