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Buenos Aires and the days before!
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Hey you guys!
Sorry its been so long since i wrote! it´s been a bit mad.. One day is just rolling into the next! We dont even know what day it is and are counting our days by what day Paddy´s day was and that was a good while ago so we are getting very very confused! That, along with the fact that neither of us own a watch is really getting hard!
Well, i think that last time i wrote we were in Puno? Well not anymore! We got a bus from Puno to Copacabana in Bolivia and to be honest.. we were shitting it a bit! You read all this stuff about people getting tricked by officals in the Bolivian border.. counting money and giving them back fake dollars? well we were ready for it! The two of us armed with our dollars in our bras, hit the border! Not a bother! Nobody looked twice at us and all that sweaty uncomfort for nothing!
Sara in Copacabana
Arrived in Copacabana in the arvo and it is a cute little hippy town! We stayed in a hostel (Cupula i think it was) looking out over the lake Titicaca with little hammocks in the back garden and a lovely restaurant upstairs which was yum yum yummie! We just panned out for the 2 days, slept loads, ate loads and basically chillaxed and it was great!
Looking out over Copacabana
Daydreaming over Lake Titicaca
Blessing the cars in Copacabana! They pour beer all over the cars. We were just sitting, watching and mouths waterin for beer in the hot sun!!!
Priest (with the langer cap on!) blessing the cars!!!
After about 2 days we headed off on the bus to La Paz to our microbrewery hostel in the city. Wouldnt think much of La Paz to be honest. It was really dirty and at times it was hard to breath! We met some very funny people there though.. some mental German boys who were really funny.. not what i expected from the Germans! Twas a great awl laugh but we were only there a few days and were glad to be heading off on our flight to Buenos Aires. Or so we thought! Got up at 3 am one morning to catch our flight, headed off to the airport, but LAB airlines decided to delay the flight and not tell us.. by 2 days! So we were stuck in the dirty city for another 2 days with no way out.
Sad face! Cant believe we dont get to go to Buenos Aires!!!
Not sad for much longer! Drinks in La Paz!
They ended up putting us in a really kinda faulty towers kinda hotel, where there was a cloud of dust covering reception area where they were using BROOMS to sweep the floor. I actually had to hang by the smoking section to get some fresh air! We were put in separate rooms aswell and to top it all off i nearly collapsed when i saw that they were using feckin typewriters to type up letters! What a disaster! Apart from that, we just chilled out for a few days and watched The Last King of Scotland in the cinema, where we had loads of coke, popcorn, and chocolate for i think it was like 3€ or summit inc cinema! Finally after 2 extra days, we got to go to Buenos Aires and it was worth it!!!!!!!!!
Buenos Aires from the plane!
Buenos Aires. A really cool city! i love it! i loved it as soon as i arrived. You just feel really safe straight away. We stayed in Hostel-Inn, San Telmo, Buenos Aires. A cool hostel but the staff are kinda shit, to be honest. They say they will organise tours and they dont. They say they have a room and they dont. That kinda shit! Anyway, enough about that. The 1st day we went (of course!) shop shop shopping! We went to a huge shopping mall called Pacifico in the city center. Really big with loads of shops with beautiful dresses and we were just in heaven. Tearing through shops, trying on expensive dresses and perfume. No intention of buying anything of course coz our bags are way to heavy to carry as it is! Our bubble was burst fairly lively though.. some little snotty shop assistant came up to Sara and told her to "browse through the clothes but use the hangers!" as in dont fecking touch the clothes ya little tramp! Of couse Sara was very upset but i was just laughing and pointing at her!
Naturally the 1st night we went for one huge steak and red wine! We read some little booklet where an Irish boy recommended a place in San Telmo for steak.. El Desnivel i think it was called. So him being Irish and the food being steak, we said we´d check it out! Wow the steak was like nothing i ever ate! I dont even like steak at home but this was nothing like it. It was so tender and tasty.. My mouth is watering at the thought of it even now.. Yum yum yum. All for about $6 or $8 i think. Went back again the 2nd night for more! I just dont know what they feed those cows?
Our First Steak!
Cant get it into me fast enough! Yum yum..
The 2nd day we did everything Evita. We went to Evita museum and went to visit her grave. I just couldnt believe that she died at 33 i think. Didnt know that. Also, for all out there.. my theory is that her name was Eva but did they call her Evita because in Spanish they add ITA onto everything to kinda make it smaller and nicer. Like chicitas or pequitas...does it mean like little Eva? mad question i know.. weird!
There was a few problems with our bus to Iguazu Falls. The hostel said they would book it (we couldnt find any free bus seats..) and they said that we would be heading off that night on our 16-18 hr bus trip but when we arrived back they didnt have any seats and we only had 3 more days left in BA so we decided to posh it up and fly it! I would totally recommend it! i was about 3 times more expensive but we got an extra few days in Buenos Aires instead.
Iguazu Falls
Iguazu Falls again..
Iguazu is really really cool. We couldnt get over how many butterflies were around the place.. Our roomie warned us they were everywhere but he never said how many! They were everywhere.. every colour and shape. We eve-dropped into one english tour guide (we were too cheap to have one!) and she was saying there was like 300 species of butterfly in the park. They land everywhere! One bald man was just walking around with one stuck to his head! He looked like a fecking unicorn!
Me by the falls with a butterfly on my hand!
Wow!
The waterfalls themselves are huge! I saw photos but just didnt realise how huge and powerful they were. Really really loved them! We said sure we´d get a little tour boat out to check out the waterfalls. I heard, be careful because you get a bit wet. And you do. Absolutely soaking would be a better word. They bring you out on a speedboat and drive in and out under the waterfall and the water gushing down on you. Of course, i didnt bring any spare clothes and walked around for the rest of the day to try and dry off! Highlight of my day though...
Yes! We did it!
Absolutely soaking! Drippin for the day!
Buenos Aires is a great city to go out in aswell. We´d normally guzzle wine and then beer at the hostel but one of the nights we hit the town big time! Went to (i think they were feeding us lies) but they said it was the 11th biggest nightclub in the world! We were all excited though until we got on the fecking bus to get there! Oh my god, there was heels, there was make-up, there was even perfume and we had none of the above. (Luckily) i had a dress on but no make-up and i had fecking jesus sandals on and we just felt like shit!! Walking around the nightclub like a pair of fecking dykes!! Had a laugh though! Met some Ross O´Carroll Kelly´s from Dublin who were good fun and did a rendition of bohemian rhapsody with us.. classy birds!
Actually, we were classy birds for the last night in Buenos Aires. We went to El Viejo Almacen Tango show. It was fab! Dinner, drinks and show all included. It was kinda expensive but we poshed it up with our nice frocks and lipstick and everything! Fantastic show though and Tango is so fast! It´s unbelivable how they keep up with the steps! Amazing stuff!
Check out jumper over the shoulder! Posh!
Champagne Darling!
Tango!.. we werent allowed to take pics! Rebel!
Well thats it really! I´m probably after leaving something out? Off to the glaciers next..brrrrrrrr. Oh yeah, the boys would rate 8/10 in Argentina and of course my bubble was burst when some little Ozzie fecker told me that not all the boys in OZ look like the Aussie Rules team.. Couldnt he just let me live the dream?
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well! (reply)
Apr 10, 2007 12:03 EST by bridget3
Dear Annmarie,
I'm thrilled you're having such a fab time, the photos are just amazing, Iguazu Falls are a far cry from our little Mahon Falls! You're right, the steaks out there are amazing, think a lot of the cattle are finished on barley diets which makes them real tender and juicy, trust me to bring the subject round to agriculture, sorry! Met up with the girlies Saturday night in the Moor... show all
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Hello mrs! (reply)
Apr 6, 2007 07:51 EST by dav1
Hi girl;
Its great to hear your living the dream!-hope them aussie boys lived up to your expectations! Sorry it has taken me so so long to reply but I no longer have a computer at work to acess my e-mails. Well we do have 1 computer for 50 teachers in staff!
I guess you heard I'm teaching in st.declans?
I'm loving it at the mo- but it was very hard to adjust to-having tea with past tea... show all
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