Buenos Aires

And heeeere we are! Che, Buenos Aires, city of tango, Evita, asados and yet anothe spanish accent for me to discover!

I got here after a very long trip, passing Washington and waiting there about 7 hours. Thank god for Obama gift shops to entertain me.

I´m staying in the house of a co-alcateller. Argentine who lives and works in belgium and who happened to be here for some work/holidays. Most of the days I ve been spending them with him, his family and his friends. Swell! No dodgy hostels yet!

I´m dividing my time between the basic tourist stuff and just living the porteño life as it´s supposed to be. Drinking licuados, parties, drinks, etcetera. I´m also meeting a coworker that was with me in Puerto Rico.

One of Diego´s friends was nice enough to organize us an asado. The Argentinan answer to BBQ. Cooking meat over here is an art, I just watched and enjoyed... I think I ate enough meat to get me through the week.

Diego´s parents own a boat which I screwed up to take a decent picture of but you´ll get the idea. An old passenger boat that they remodelled it to be able to take along 18 people. (don t know what the record is but we were 18). We visited the delta of the Parana river, which is the huge river between buenos aires and uruguay. Lots of sun, nice people, some drinks... glad I wasn´t in the office that day, haha.

Besides, we visited Tigre, a town just outside BA. Known for its little port and water activities. One cute sailing boat next to the other. No need to say, this is a very upper class town.

Since I´m staying at a friend´s house, no real ellenadas have happened so far. Today i´ll be doing a city tour by bike with a fellow couchsurfer that lives in BA.

Tomorrow I´ll be heading south, so the real adventure can start.

Evita Peron´s cemetery

San Telmo, very nice neighbourhood. One of the more authentic ones.