Tango Tour
to Buenos Aires
When: September 12-22, 2026
Led by Helene Eriksen and Lucas A Secas
Introduction
Helene & Lucas are excited to welcome you to Buenos Aires the birthplace of Tango, a dance now popular throughout the world. Tango in Buenos Aires is a rich and diverse phenomenon with so much to choose from. Only on Saturday, for example, there could be 25-30 milongas (dance events) to choose from. They have put together a schedule for you with some of their favorite regular events that will give you a wide overview of the dance life in this city and show you the flavor of its different neighborhoods. Welcome to Buenos Aires!
Features
We will use a small fleet of taxis to allow for more flexibility. Included are transfers to and from the airport.
We will have “taxi dancers” to dance with us at all the milongas (dance events). This ensures that you get to dance as much as you want to and that you can continue putting the things you have learned into practice on the dance floor.
The tour will focus on several things:
1) The waves of immigration that shaped the city and tango. Each immigrant group has their cultural centers, food, monuments, streets, neighborhoods etc in the city.
2) A historical perspective focused on immigration but also including important periods of Argentine history such as the dictatorship.
3) A tango “song of the day” will highlight the neighborhood we will visit or the event that we will participate in each day.
4) We focus on traditional social milonga (milonga is the dance event) rather than show tango (escenario). Tango is considered the urban “folkdance” or popular dance of the Rio Platense region. In contrast to other touristic tango tours we will visit milongas where people dance for enjoyment rather than focus on big spectacular shows. Although we will visit one tango show and see some performances embedded in milongas, we will focus on the social form both in our classes and in the events we visit.
Our hotel: Home Hotel in Buenos Aires: https://homebuenosaires.com/en/
Home Hotel is located in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires just around the corner from where Helene lives. The neighborhood is green and calm and there are many fantastic places to eat or have a coffee right outside the hotel in short walking distance.
Price: $5995
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Our program
Saturday, September 12
Depart on airlines of your choice to Buenos Aires Argentina
Day 1: Sunday, September 13: Day of rest a relaxation on your own.
Day 2: Monday, September 14
La Boca & Puerto Madero: Intro to immigration
Tango of the day: “Caminito”
Morning breakfast to meet each other and Helene & Lucas.
Morning intro tango class with Helene & Lucas
Visit La Boca: Caminito & Quinquela Museum
Walk in the Ecological Reserve (puerta Madera) and get a food-stand sandwich Immigration Museum
Dinner and Milonga de Lucy at Salon Gricel (18-1:00) accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers)
or classes (20:30-22:15) and relaxed Practica at El Beso (22:15-2:00) accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers.
Day 3: Tuesday, September 15
City Center: Italians and Spaniards
Tango of the day: “A Media Luz (Corrientes 348)”
Morning classes with Helene & Lucas
12:00-13:30 Visit Torre Barolo, a tower in Palacio Barolo based on the levels of Dante’s Inferno, from hell in the basement to paradise at the pinnacle.
Corrientes (the Broadway of BsAs),
Ice cream at Cadore (famous traditional Italian ice cream)
Obelisco, Congresso
15:30 Tour of Teatro Colon
Templo Libertad synagogue
Classes (19:30-22:30) & Dinner & Milonga Parakultural (22:30-4:00) in Historic Salon Marabu with live music and performances, accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers.
Day 4: Wednesday, September 16
Palermo: Refugees from the collapsing Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Arabs
Tango of the day: “Palermo” (Gardel or Biagi)
Morning rest
Armenia street (churches, cultural centers, theaters, retirement homes, restaurants, park & cafe)
Armenian Genocide Memorial
Greek orthodox churches
Grand mosque
Hippodrome
Eco Parque (ex Zoo with free-roaming native animals)
Dinner at Armenian Restaurant Sarkis
21:00-2:00 Neighborhood Milonga Rodriguez, accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers.
For die-hards: late night Milonga La Viruta in Armenian Cultural Center until 5am
Day 5: Thursday 17
Plazo de Mayo & San Telmo: Seat of government, early African population
Tango of the day: Barrio de Tambour
Morning rest
Ethnographic Museum
Plazo de Mayo, mothers of Plazo de Mayo, Casa Rosada,
Perhaps afternoon Milonga at Nuevo Chique (16-21)
Asado dinner at Grandes Carnicerias del Plata
Milonga Lujos in Salon El Beso (21:00-3:00), accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers.
Day 6: Friday 18
Carlos Gardel (the most famous tango singer of all time) & the Dictatorship
Tango of the day: El Nene de Abasto
Morning Tango class with Helene & Lucas
12:00 Gardel Museum with guided tour
13:30 Chacarita cemetery (Graves of Gardel and the Tango musicians union)
Flea Market and Scannapicca (traditional Italian Ice cream)
15:30 ESMA museum (clandestine center for detention, torture and extermination during the dictatorship)
Dinner and show at Catalo Tango or Bar Sur
Day 7: Saturday 19
China Town
Tango of the day: Barrio Chino
Chacarera class with Helene & Lucas (in preparation for Sunday)
Visit China Town, lunch
17-18:00 Classes & 18-22:00 open Air Milonga at the Glorietta of Belgrano,
accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers.
Day 8: Sunday 20
Mataderos & Argentine Rural Traditions
Music of the Day: chacarera
11-19:00 Feria Matadero street fair with rural Argentine handicrafts, folk dancing
traditional food (Locro)
21:00-3:00 Milonga de los Domingos at Salon El Beso, accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers.
(for die-hards la Viruta afterwards)
Elegance of the upper classes
Tango of the Day: Munecas de Barrio Norte (or a Fresedo song)
Morning class with Helene & Lucas
Shoe Shopping at Commet il Faut and Luna Tango
El Ateneo Bookstore in Recoleta
Cafe Las Violetas on Medrano
21:00-3:00 Dinner & Milonga “Tangueras” at Salon Canning (Greek Cultural Center), accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers.
Day 10: Tuesday 22:
Free Day & Last Night
19:30-22:30 Classes & 22:30-4:00 Dinner & Milonga Parakultural in Historic Salon Marabu with live music and performances, accompanied by our wonderful taxi dancers.
The last day in Buenos Aires will be the first day for the people doing the tour to N. Argentina…they will join us in Salon Marabu for dinner and milonga.
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