Ho-Ho through La Boca

La Boca is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires . It was the mouth of one of the tributaries to the Rio Platta and was also the home of a large yellow fever outbreak in the 1880s. At that time it was a very trendy neighborhood with summer homes for the rich however yellow fever put a damper on all that. I don't think it ever really recovered since the 1880s and was very rough around the edges. We took the ho-ho BlueLine right on through the middle of el Boca. But we chose not to get off of the ho-ho due to the rough edges previously mentioned.

A memorial for the dead during the dictatorship

A bright spot in a otherwise drab neighborhood

Wild indeed

Old drawbridges

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the mouth of the river

Lots of paint

Refurbished by the government