Here's another cultural experience for everyone.
Buddy Bears is an international peace project and an artist from each country in the United Nations decorated a bear. The bears now travel to cities around the world. Well, the bears don't travel, their shipped around the world. Recently, the bears were in Buenos Aires for a couple of months. We went to Plaza San Martin several times to look at them. Some countries it is easy to identify their bear and others are more difficult. It was fun to try and guess where each one is from. Sorry, I don't have the countries for all of them.
Ireland and Iraq (Guess which one is which.)
El Salvador
Azerbaijan (Burka Bear! I thought it was a funny touch especially with the unibrow.)
Argentina, Algeria
United Kingdom, Qatar
Tanzania(center), Thailand (stamp)
Poland, Peru, Paraguay (It's covered in astro-turf), Panama
Nicaragua, Namibia, Myanmar
Indonesia (I like his outfit)
Estados Unidos (I thought it was a good showing from the U.S.)
Cuba (note the cigar)
Democratic Republic of Congo, Columbia, Cyprus
Um... definitely some truly disturbing bears in there. El Salvador... Qatar... and the Namibian artist chose a rather interesting location for the gazelle head.
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