After an 11 hour flight we arrived in Buenos Aires at 3pm on Sunday and the temperature was 32'C! Our spanish was good enough to get a taxi to the hostel and that night we bought some really cheap wine and slept.
On Monday we found the tourist shopping area in San Telmo. We couldn't change our US dollars (this was a big problem because we really needed pesos to buy normal food...) so we just bought more wine and made hair wraps.
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| Katie made my first hair wrap |
There are 15 million people in the city of Buenos Aires, and 4 million travel into the town center every day! The public transport is good, but place is so huge we can only do two things in a day!
On Tuesday we finally managed to change the US dollars (yay - we can eat!), and spent the rest of the day looking for more hair wrap string. We didn't find it, got lost on the way home, and then got very lost again on the way to see my Argentinian friends... But after a suspiciously long taxi ride we made it to Sol and Sergio's around 8pm for facturas (sweet pastries with caramel filling) and mate.
On Wednesday we donated some clothes to charity, found a nice cafe and bought more string to make hair wraps - so this was a good day! Except it took 7 hours... Then we went to the bus stop for the 14 hour trip to Mendoza and the Vendemia festival!
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We're so hot and tired - but anyway, cheese!
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| La Boca, a colourful but dangerous suburb |
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The famous obelisk, and the worlds (second) widest avenue,
Avenida 9 de Julio |
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| Beautiful buildings |
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Madres de plaza de Mayo - a charity set up by the mothers of 30,000
people who were kidnapped and killed during the dictatorship in the 1970's |
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| Our fancy bus meal on the way to Mendoza! |
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| Welcome to Mendoza - The land of sun and good wine! |
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