I have (very politely) been reminded by a friend that I'm long due a blog post, and since we have been in South America for almost two months I thought I'd better get onto it. This blog is about Buenos Aires, and Carnival.
We arrived in Buenos Aires and spent about 10 days there, taking spanish lessons and generally having fun. I fell a little bit in love with BA. I guess we've mostly spent time in rural areas or small towns and villages, so it was nice to spend time in such a cool city. It has a great weekend market, amazing art deco architecture and the best steak restaurant in the world. Apparently BA also has some of the most lax laws (or rather enforcement) on graffiti which means that there is some of the most amazing the street art I've ever seen. We spent hours walking around looking at it all, and we are talking seriously artistic stuff here, not some kid with a can of black spray paint sticking his name up everywhere.
Something we finally got around to doing in BA was couch surfing (can you believe it took us two years to get involved in free accommodation, we're slipping I tell you). Apparently we picked the right city to do it in as well, because the couch surfing community in BA is meant to be the most active in the world, organising a whole lot of activities during the week Some photo's can be found here, here and here
With friends from our spanish course we went to a small town a few hours out of BA for Argentina's biggest Carnival festival for the weekend. I think most of the worlds ostrich and peacock feathers were on display. The floats were amazing. I was pretty glad a brought tissues to wipe the drool that was coming from Mark and the other guys we were there with. Yikes!
Some of Mark's photo's from carnival click here. You'll notice he jumped the fence a few times to get up close and personal with some of the women. You'll also notice I'm far too classy to grope strange men wearing very little!
We ended up having to smuggle ourselves into a camp ground, as the camping spaces filled up rather quickly, and then found that our group became minor celebrities as we were the only foreigners around. This meant we had a lot of offers to try Fernet (the local liquor) and were invited to join in quiet a few parties and bbq. I don't think any of us complained, Argentinans are really friendly, and they know how to bbq what is easily the best steak I've ever had. I've included below a couple of photo's from the weekend, including some that feature women wearing not too much, you have been warned!
It was really really hot so when we went to the southern most city of Argentina straight afterwards which was FREEZING cold we had a bit of a shock to the system. Our travels through Patagonia will form the basis of my next blog.
We arrived in Buenos Aires and spent about 10 days there, taking spanish lessons and generally having fun. I fell a little bit in love with BA. I guess we've mostly spent time in rural areas or small towns and villages, so it was nice to spend time in such a cool city. It has a great weekend market, amazing art deco architecture and the best steak restaurant in the world. Apparently BA also has some of the most lax laws (or rather enforcement) on graffiti which means that there is some of the most amazing the street art I've ever seen. We spent hours walking around looking at it all, and we are talking seriously artistic stuff here, not some kid with a can of black spray paint sticking his name up everywhere.
Something we finally got around to doing in BA was couch surfing (can you believe it took us two years to get involved in free accommodation, we're slipping I tell you). Apparently we picked the right city to do it in as well, because the couch surfing community in BA is meant to be the most active in the world, organising a whole lot of activities during the week Some photo's can be found here, here and here
With friends from our spanish course we went to a small town a few hours out of BA for Argentina's biggest Carnival festival for the weekend. I think most of the worlds ostrich and peacock feathers were on display. The floats were amazing. I was pretty glad a brought tissues to wipe the drool that was coming from Mark and the other guys we were there with. Yikes!
Some of Mark's photo's from carnival click here. You'll notice he jumped the fence a few times to get up close and personal with some of the women. You'll also notice I'm far too classy to grope strange men wearing very little!
We ended up having to smuggle ourselves into a camp ground, as the camping spaces filled up rather quickly, and then found that our group became minor celebrities as we were the only foreigners around. This meant we had a lot of offers to try Fernet (the local liquor) and were invited to join in quiet a few parties and bbq. I don't think any of us complained, Argentinans are really friendly, and they know how to bbq what is easily the best steak I've ever had. I've included below a couple of photo's from the weekend, including some that feature women wearing not too much, you have been warned!
It was really really hot so when we went to the southern most city of Argentina straight afterwards which was FREEZING cold we had a bit of a shock to the system. Our travels through Patagonia will form the basis of my next blog.
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