Baires 612 Buenos Aires

... place with many quaint colourful shacks and little wooden jetties jutting into the river. It was a good time of year to go there as the scents from the flowering trees filled the air and the spectacular colors of the many flowers like lilies, irises, bottle brush, azalias and magnolias were a feast for the eyes set in a very lush, green ground cover. We had to watch our step with the 'path’ as it was quite undulating and I ...

... vents couldn't completely route the smell. My sleep was fitful at best.
One last point, as I was warned on other travel sites - don't exchange your money in the baggage area in Buenos Aires airport. The only service there is a rip-off, taking a 20% premium. Right outside the baggage/customs area are a number of exchanges, and they offer the current currency rates.
We grabbed a taxi to the domestic airport, and headed off to Salta.

As you may know, McDonalds has decided to take on Starbucks in the quest for your four dollar coffee purchases. On the surface, this seems like McDonalds is taking on Mission Impossible. However, they may have a secret weapon. In Argentina, and I'm told other countries in South America and Europe, McDonald's has a model that should make Starbucks shake in ...

... 6.50 / 375 ml) amazing malbec and watched about 45 minutes of the show. I am SOOO glad i caught this. BA is the birthplace of tango but it is difficult to separate the ´real´, natural tango shows from the $70 ´just for tourists´shows. leaving there i immediately caught the right bus but decided to jump off and head to the waterfront park. Being the weekend there was a hundred things going on: lousy high school bands, some weird group dancercise, skaters, vendors, something ...

... that. I don't have any picture from the Eva Peron museum as it was forbidden, but it's been really interesting. I really don't know what to think of that woman. From a low social class, actress with a little success, then married to the strong man of the country. Accused of ruthless ambition by her detractors, friend of the Che, populist to the bone and a strange mixture of socialism, nationalism, self-promotion and self-victimization. Hated by the oligarchy and loved ...

... and bars. Ended up spending the afternoon at the zoo, located in one of Palermo´s huge parks. We had mixed feelings about the zoo, we´re both all for modern zoos where its all about conservation and preserving the animals natural instincts but we´re not sure Buenos Aires zoo has quite got there yet. The animals all looked well fed and cared for and most enclosures were big enough but there didn´t seem to be any form of stimulation for a lot of the ...

So i know i havnt updated this in ages... really iunno i been to tired to lazy tooo much everything as well since Uruguay and Argentina feel like home to me i usually cant think of much to mention coz it all feels normal... but heres a lil update of my past few weeks. I went to the lil colonial town named colonia who knew eh? see photos from past blogg from there i took a boat to buenos aires and ...

... are not flat but are more like mauseleums or tombs and youcan loook inside and see the coffins. It is like a maze in there and is quite a weird feeling. After we left the cemetary we looked around the market and then crossed the bridge where there were lots of dressed up people doing a Patch Adams day to bring joy to people in hospital. All the cars were going past beeping their horns and the atmosphere was lovely with everyone just having fun. Across the road from here is a huge ...

... to wear a waistpack or backpack. · Women dye their hair. Even though my clothes and camera didn't scream "tourist", surely my grey hair did! · Cash is king. Bring U.S. dollars and change at Banco Nacional at the airport. Bring extra U.S. dollars and keep them in reserve, just in case. Using the ATM, we sometimes would ask for $700 and the machine would tell us to input a smaller amount. US dollars as well as ...

... away fans.

Sante Fe is about 450 kms north of Buenos Aires, so there were only a few thousand away fans around and I suspected that most of them lived here!

When we got to the stadium our marvelous guide excelled himself by having no idea how the electronic tickets worked. He ended up having to ask one of the stewards ...