Grand Hotel Buenos Aires

... cest la danse traditionnelle1!!!!!)
jarpemte les rues em long en large et en travers pdt des heures et des heures, puis je retourne ds le centre pour trouver ma sortie culturelle du soir, jopte pour une comedie musicale...
en attendant je rentre a lhotel pour regarder le match de foot de lannee (boca ctre river, 2 clubs de buenos aires) maos je tombe ds une procession de dieus des miracles (seņor de los milagros) typiquement peruvienm alors je marrete un momt ...

Day 2 – Bs As:

The next roomate I meet is Juan from Colombia, another fellow traveler who has both never traveled alone, nor been outside of his own country. On the second day, after I time traveled directly from the taxi to the next morning in the bunk bed, Jackson, Juan and I go out for breakfast and fresh orange juice. I have to check out by noon, so with my bus leaving at 9pm that night I spend the rest of the day playing tourist. There are many photos to ...

... super fun. we won too thankfully. so many hecklers though it was unbelievable. the field was surrounded by barbed wire fences and the sections were totally segregated with barbed wire (our area included) to protect the normal folk. they also had tons of police outside the game and they let all the away fans out first before releasing the home fans so that nobody gets into a fight.

anyhow only 6 more days till cam gets here!! yaay!!

... an environment best enjoyed by patrons with a lot of testosterone.

After the museo, we headed back to the hostel to change. Dinner was of the inexpensive but filling kind since we found a Chinese buffet that was better than most I've been to in the states. "King Kirin" provided a series of Chinese and other random dishes including a mediocre parrilla where servings were limitless. I guess in hindsight, it was a good training round for the following night's dinner ...

... on the San Telmo Barrio where we found lodging at Hostel de Granados, an art-deco, centrally located, place for hipsters near some good restaurants with a nice bar next door of the same name. Its also just a block away from a cluster of Buenos Aires' best Tango clubs known as ''Tangarias''.

After one of our better hot showers of the trip, we grabbed a tasty lunch at one of the neighborhood bistros and started to get our bearings with ...

... a load of friendly Argentinians and Colombians interested on what I was doing out here. It was at around 6.30am they decided to head onto a night/early morning club. nuts... BA has a great music scene and I was lucky enough to see Basement Jaxx, Fischerspooner, Tiga, Sasha, Kraftwerk, and Radiohead while I was out there. The International Buenos Aires Film Festival was also on so I caught a couple of films - I donīt recommend Awaydays to anyone. I also spent a week ...

... though filled with lots of random statues of famous peoples heads which was a little odd. The rose garden was particularly beautiful, when we first saw it we couldn`t get over how amazingly lush the grass looked...we soon learned why it was so well kept. Not only were there signs everywhere prohibiting walking on the grass there were also wardens wandering around in uniform, with walkie talkies blowing whistles at you if you stepped out of line!!! Unbelievable. After ...

... and cool in some areas, but hot and stuffy in others. Back to central BA, past the high-end shops of Boulevard Alvear, and past a number of parks. I saw a bunch of locals playing in a pick-up soccer game. My guidebook warned not to join a game, unless you were VERY confident in your soccer skills. It was pretty eventful as I got closer to the hostel, coming across an accident between a motorbike and a car, and two arrests. Back ...

... I am intoxicated with this place! I live across from a park. Parque Las Heras. On the way home, (about 9PM) I was starving and had to go to the bathroom-- I stumbled on a drum band, with about 30 dancers. These were regular people... All dancing in a choreographed manner. I have no idea what group this was. That's not true... the drum says something. But, it was awesome-- I'll post a video and some ...

... that were technically second best. EVERYONE was out on the bayside st or up the hill, and where we were on the bayside street, EVERYONE (old, young, men, women) was buying multicoloured tinsel wigs or flashing devil horns/mickey mouse ears---we thought we`d join in with these festivities (photos will be posted...) In the leadup to midnight there was also alot of confetti throwing and the setting off of `non-fireworks`(packages that claimed not to be fireworks which were ...