This is a city of around a million people located on the Parana River -- a four-hour drive north of Buenos Aires. My guidebook suggested it was “perhaps Argentinas best city", so I was interested in finding out more. I hopped a bus from central Buenos Aires and for a $10 US fare, I was there in the early afternoon. 

Rosario’s bus station was in an outlying area, so I walked to the central business district.  It was longer than I had thought, and it took me over a half-hour. But the city had a very nice retail core with a pedestrian-only retail-area street that extended for almost a mile. I grabbed a nearby three star hotel for $30 per night.

I walked along the fine system of parks that lined the riverfront area. Rosario was also the birth city of the famous revolutionary Che Guevara and I walked by his home near a fashionable area of the downtown. There is also a small commemorative “Che” park a block away.

"Che" neighborhood park in Rosario

I stayed in Rosario for only two days and two nights. Then it was another bus ride back to Buenos Aires for my final days of my trip.