When in Buenos Aires

Its going to be hot. People sit out after 7pm in sidewalk cafs and bars. During
the day, wet your head so you dont get sunlicked.
So youre staying in San Telmo?
Dorrego square (Plaza Dorrego) is nice to sit out in, and on the weekends old
people dance tango. Order Clerico, which is a bottle of white wine poured out
into a jug of fruit and ice; refreshing on a hot day. Weekends they close off the
streets and there are lots of stalls selling crafts.

Day walks could take you round Puerto Madero upscale recycling of old port
Plaza de Mayo where you might catch one of the frequent protests,
including drum banging and flag waving and Avenida de Mayo, which has
historical cafs and architecture. Your guide book will be recommending all
these places, so I wont go into details.
Palermo is hip in the evening Plaza Serrano fills with people. Browse the
surrounding streets. You can get here by subway from San Telmo.

Las Cabras is a nice place to eat in Palermo. You can sit outside.

Have a drink or eat: Pern Pern Restobar, Angel Carranza 2225, Palermo. Its
full of Peronist relics like the sewing machines that Evita used to give to the
poor.

Still in Palermo, la viruta is where you can learn to tango and salsa. You pay an
entrance fee and can stick around for as many of the evenings classes as you
like. Its in the basement.
http://www.lavirutatango.com/english_version/index.html
Awesome dancing to big group drumming at La Bomba del Tiempo on Mondays
at 7pm. Get there like half hour early.

Theres a nice trip on this tourist bus- itll take you round and you can get on
and off. La Boca is a good stop. http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/en

Recoleta. Plaza Francia is hippie in the evening on the weekends, and if you go
earlier in the day, you can go to the incredible cemetery, which is like a city for
the dead, and Evita is buried there. Across the big road you might spy the law
faculty where Im studying linguistics. Further up that road is the Malba modern
art gallery which is ok.

The river delta is a change of scenery and a short train ride away. Go to the end
of the line ask for a ticket to Tigre at the train station. Trains are very cheap.
Once in Tigre, you can get a bus-boat to Tres Bocas, which is a nice place to
wander about and gawp at the odd houses.
Buses are very cheap if you can figure them out. Find out what buses you need
to take here: http://beta.comoviajo.com/transporte/donde-queda/
Look, youll probably only want to stay at most two weeks in the city. Really a
week would be enough. Itll get to you, this place. If you do want to hang
around longer, the cheapest option will be to temporarily rent an apartment
through these guys: http://www.bytargentina.com/ I didnt have any problems
with them last year when my family came over for my wedding and I got
apartments in Palermo.
As for the rest of the country, I definitely recommend it. Ive only gone south,
through Patagonia. It was amazing. I took a tent and sometimes camped and
sometimes stayed in a hostel. There are some long long stretches in very
comfortable buses with bed-like reclining seats. Via Bariloche is the bus
company that has the best bed-seats. I went to Mendoza, wine mecha of
Argentina, Bariloche, Villa la Angostura, El Bolson, El Chalten, El Calafate, all
the way down the Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world.
I hear going north is also awesome, but I have no personal experience of it.