Cafe Tortoni is a must see in Buenos Aires. It’s located in the heart of the city. This is the perfect place for a coffee or a snack when walking along Avenida de Mayo. In past times it was frequented by notable guests such as tango singer Carlos Gardel, dramatist Federico García Lorca, painter Benito Quinquela Martín and some of the great argentine writers and intellectuals, including Jorge Luis Borges. More recently, the Tortoni has hosted Hilary Clinton and King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

It was founded in 1858 and is the oldest cafe in Argentina. The interior of the cafe is lovely with art nouveau decor, high ceilings, stained glass, yellowish marble and bronzes. Also there are many paintings and pictures hanging on its wall from its glory days.

The prices in Cafe Tortoni aren’t too much higher than in other cafes in Buenos Aires. The cafe is open Monday to Saturday from 8 to 2am and Sunday from 9 to 1am.

Price: US$11-20
comparison: about average
Avenida de Mayo 82.
http://www.cafetortoni.com.ar

Gay Valentine's Day

Saint Valentine’s Day is celebrated on February 14th. It is a very important date for ALL the couples -straight and gay- and it is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines“). Also people invite their couples to spend the day in a romantic city and have a special night in a expensive hotel. But if you want to make Valentine’s Day a very special day, you can buy a tour to Buenos Aires (three nights in wonderful Argentina) and spend a lovely weekend with your Half-Orange.

It is not expensive. The price per person in… double room: us$ 199,  single room: us$ 299, triple room: us$ 179. The tour to Buenos Aires package includes: Round trip transfers, Welcome kit, City Tour and a three nights accomodation with taxes and breakfast at Moonlight House.

So what are you waiting for? Don’t miss this opportunity to visit Buenos Aires with your couple and have an unforgettable Saint Valentine’s Day in South America.

We wish you a Happy Saint Valentine’s Day!

Buenos Aires Gay Pride Parade

Something of a gay Mecca, by Latin America standards at least, Buenos Aires hosts a thriving gay and lesbian community with many gay clubs, bars and social venues. The main Pride Parade is held in the streets of downtown Buenos Aires on the first Saturday of November, to celebrate the formation of the first-ever gay group in Buenos Aires in 1969. Thousands of gays and non-gays from many different organisations join this popular, flamboyant event. Buenos Aires Gay Pride Parade is the most important annual gay event.

Where? Streets of downtown Buenos Aires. Includes May Square, facing Cathedral and Presidential Palace.

This year Buenos Aires Gay Pride Parade will be held on November 7 at six o’clock in the Plaza de Mayo.

For More Information:
- Argentine National Tourist Information Centre: Av. Santa Fe 883
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Phone 00 54 11 4312 2232.
- Gay travel agency: BAGayTravel
www.bagaytravel.com

Take a look of the last Buenos Aires Gay Pride Parade at this video:

Gay couple dancing tango

Sometimes is better to show what you mean than to describe it. So I invite you to see this films that contain scenes of tango show, such as:

1. Madonna featured choreography inspired by the argentine tango styles for the Die Another Day section of her 2004 Re-Invention Tour. Segments of the 2005 documentary I’m Going To Tell You A Secret show this choreography in use.
2. Shall We Dance (2004), starring Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez and Susan Sarandon, directed by Peter Chelsom.
3. Frida (2002), Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd dance a tango to the Lila Downs performed song Cuartito Azul.
4. Chicago (2002), starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere, directed by Rob Marshall includes a song titled “The Cell Block Tango” and is accompanied with a dance.
5. Moulin Rouge! (2001), featuring Ewan McGregor and “El Tango de Roxanne”
6. Evita (1996), Madonna and Antonio Banderas dance a ballroom tango (see the scene above).
7. True Lies (1994), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by James Cameron.
8. Schindler’s List (1993), starring Liam Neeson.
9. Never Say Never Again (1983), starring Sean Connery and Kim Basinger, directed by Irvin Kershner.
10. Last Tango in Paris (1972), starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Now that you understand what tango means, why don’t you learn tango in Buenos Aires? This argentinian city is the best place to dance tango because it was born there.

I hope you enjoy it. See you!

Buenos Aires city tour by bike

We offer you to take a relaxed guided tour across Buenos Aires and its surrounding areas by bike. All tours includes rental of bike and helmet, the famous Argentinean “mate” root tea. Just wear comfortable clothes and get ready to have some fun!

Discover Buenos Aires, this wonderful and complex city with a wealth of impressive sites. Understand the strong social and cultural identity of this metropolitan city. Your senses will light up to the sites, sounds, and smells of energetic Buenos Aires.

Do you need more reasons to take a city tour by bike? You’ll learn about many buildings including historical and architectural explanations and anecdotes.

The Buenos Aires city tour by bike are designed for people of all ages and levels of understanding, both tourists and residents. They are, without a doubt, the most interesting and entertaining way to discover the city, understand its history and make new friends along the way!

If you want to know sites where you will discover soccer, tango and the exciting Buenos Aires nightlife, don’t hesitate to post a comment.

The shopping center and casino in Mar del Plata

Mar del Plata Beach is an important bathing resort city of Argentina. It is the preferred beach city in Argentina for the gay community because it has a growing gay nightlife scene.

It is located to 414 kilometers of the city of Buenos Aires, in the Province of Buenos Aires.

Mar del Plata Beach is a modern city that brings a coast of more than 17 kilometers with beaches and one impressive infrastructure of services: hotels of all the categories, commercial pensions, restaurants, bars, discos, cinemas, theaters and galleries. Also it has the biggest casino of the world!

The development of Mar del Plata as a seasonal resort in the early 20th century led upper class tourists from Buenos Aires to build a European-inspired architecture, based mainly on the picturesque and later on the art deco styles. This gave Mar del Plata the nickname of the Argentine Biarritz.

Mar del Plata gay

Its numerous parks, squares and gardens, with colorful varied flowers offer the tourist a singular surrounding landscape.

Two exits are inevitable in Mar del Plata: to go to the port to eat fish and to buy sweaters in the factories.

Enjoy the sea sun sand in Mar del Plata! Spend a couple of days at this magnificient city. See you in Mar del Plata!

Start 2010 in Buenos Aires, the most gay and cheerful city of South America.

An unforgettable week! We’ll visit Buenos Aires city, staying in a gay hotel where you will feel at home. We’ll go on tour, eat delightful Argentinean meals, go shopping, and many many more!

• Lodging for 7 (seven) nights at Axel Hotel, breakfast and tax included.
• Welcome kit
• Transfers airport/hotel/airport, in a private car with guide.
• Outings, in a private service for the participants (14 people maximum), with bilingual (Spanish-English) guide.
• Helicopter tour (24 minutes)
• Meals, sarter, main course and dessert, with drinks included (a bottle of wine every two people and soft drinks or water)
• Dinner Tango Show at La Esquina de Carlos Gardel, with transfers
• New Year Dinner at the Axel Hotel Buenos Aires, with beverages, show and much more.
• Ticket to Unikus Spa with a body massage included.

Check the whole offer at BAGayTravel, specialized gay travel agency.

Obelisco - Buenos Aires Gay Tourism

Hi everyone! Today I going to share with you a quick gay tour around Buenos Aires. What you can visit and expect, find it here

First, a bit of geography -not a gay topic of course. Buenos Aires was founded on 1536 and is the capital city of Argentina, as well as the largest city. Buenos Aires is located on the shore of the Rio de la Plata, close to Uruguay and Brazil. The population is about 3 million people just within the city’s boundaries. If you consider the whole conurbation (Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires) the figure ascend to 13 millon! That’s really a lot of people.

Buenos Aires has a humid climate because of the river proximity, with temperatures averaging 50°F in winter (june to september) and 83°F during summer (december to march). In 2007 there was even a snowfall, the second one in the registered history of Buenos Aires weather.

We will talk about transportation, food, tango and economics in further posts, so let us move on to gay topics

First of all, gay activities in Buenos Aires are really massive. Not only gay nightlife, but daily gay tours and circuits. In 2008, Buenos Aires was considered the #2 worldwide city option to visit, only after Bangkok.

By the night, the gay options are dozens. You can find about 15 gay clubs, pubs and bars. Buenos Aires has no gay-neighborhood well defined, but there are hot areas in the city that can be considered as gay neighborhoods. That is because the amount of gay discos or gay pubs there. This hot gay zones are Palermo, Recoleta and Barrio Norte.

Not only gay discos or pubs. Buenos Aires nightlife can offer you gay darkrooms, gay saunas, gay spa, gay hotels and a lot of places to have fun or relax. You choose what you need.

(If you are thinking about visiting Buenos Aires, check out this Buenos Aires gay travel agency. These buddies will offer you the best option)

Well, this was just a little intro of gay Buenos Aires. We will talk a lot more about this topics and another ones in the next posts, so keep in touch! See you soon, and don’t forget to leave your comment!

Hi folks! Welcome to this brand new gay blog.

In a bunch of gay-clubbing years I had the luck to meet a lot of gay tourists visiting Buenos Aires and Argentina. They were all surprised with the nightlife in Buenos Aires, mainly gay nightlife. After all, this is Southamerica’s gay capital city!

Maybe my experience can be useful for you, those who plan to travel to Buenos Aires or Argentina, and need references about where to go out to, where to lunch, what to buy and what don’t. To visit Buenos Aires is an excellent option, a superb gay option. Not only about nightlife but about culture and interests.

I wait for your comments, suggestions and inquiries about Buenos Aires, Argentina, and gay related topics!