Finding the Greenery in Buenos Aires

It’s a city for tango, but also for trees.  Between the city and the Rio Plata lies a wetlands, a paradise of swaying blond grass, birds of all types, and a running path that loops you past a truly disgusting factory grounds that is, apparently, slowly destroying the land where squatters and their families have been putting up with water runoff colored effervescent green for decades.  I’d come to Buenos Aires after an intense few weeks of cycling through some of the most beautiful land I’d ever seen, and I was prepared to embrace the city as an oasis of hot showers, cozy beds, bookshops and finely crafted ice cream–you know, the stuff you miss when you’re camping.  But it wasn’t too long after I arrived that I wanted to escape.  With only three weeks to go before I returned to New York, I found this view of the city suited me just fine: skyline, as seen from a distance, over plants.

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