Caminito La Boca is a Tourist Trap (but the walk there is pretty), Buenos Aires: Day 6

Caminito, La Boca: Looks like a cool, hip neighborhood in pictures and in the tourist blogs I read. So I walked there from my neighborhood, which is quite far, about an hour and a half away. It is far from cool, and it is not a neighborhood. It's a small, crowded street overrun with tourists, souvenir shops and other tourist traps in Buenos Aires' La Boca neighborhood. As soon as I arrived, I saw four huge tour buses lined up. Three more were parked around the corner. I walked straight through it to an empty pizza shop just off the street, only because I was starving after my long walk. Otherwise I would have left immediately. The entire street is cool looking because it is brightly painted, but the experience is empty - making Caminito, La Boca one of the only places in my life that I can say: the pictures are better than the experience. I would either go around 8am, when hopefully there is no one else there, or simply walk to the Boca Juniors stadium and the surrounding area, which IS cool.

Pictures of the area around Caminito La Boca are below. I didn't even bother taking pictures on Caminito Calle because tourists would have taken up half the photo and other people have done a much better job when no one is there: google it!

Now, the walk to La Boca, on the other hand, I recommend. Once you get close to La Boca, walk the route near the stadium, because there is a nice park to walk through, and it is a bit dangerous, maybe there too, but definitely elsewhere. Other than that, I don't have one specific route to recommend, I just recommend walking around Buenos Aires extensively in general - find your own path! It is a massive city, and there is much to discover.

What I saw on my walk:

The restaurant Union Works, which I want to go back to:

You have to climb over or around that broken bench to get it and look how crazy and weird it looks inside (below). I must return and investigate.

Just a pretty street:

Cool parking lot graffiti:

Another restaurant that looks cute that I want to return to, El Patio de San Telmo:

The Congressional building on a sunny day:

The Congressional Park, and the blooming jacarunda trees:

A beautiful beautiful park. It seemed like there was a college nearby? It had that vibe. I dropped a pin here, but I was offline so it disappeared and it's a mystery which park!

I was especially excited to happen upon a bus parking lot. In Buenos Aires, each route has its own colorful and beautiful bus and I had been looking for a parking lot so I could see a bunch in one spot. Of course, the parking lots are bus specific, so I could only see one kind of Buenos Aires' many colorful, vintage-y buses grouped together. It was still a treat!

I have a GoFundMe!

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