Buenos Aires Baby!!

We arrived in Buenos Aires by boat from Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay a week ago..and for some reason didn´t get a stamp when we entered Argentina..which I am very upset about! Also means we are officially nowhere as we got an exit stamp from Uruguay..very weird! Anyway we stayed in a neighbourhood of BA called San Telmo for the first two nights and then moved to the´posher´part of town in Palermo. We stayed 5 days in BA and walked constantly for about 4 and a half of them..the only time we sat down was to eat steak and ice cream-which was amazing.

The first day we met up with some mates from the US and walked around San Telmo, visting a cool antiques market and a few big sights like Evita´s old digs and the port. The second day we walked around Palermo´s great parks which was lovely- as the weather has been absolutely beautiful since we got here, haven´t seen a cloud in the sky for a week! The third day we walked to another neighbourhood called Recoleta and visited the famous cemetery..it was absolutely amazing, all of BA´s rich and famous are buried there, including Eva Peron and the grave sites are enourmous, a few of them looked like actual churches they were so big. We then walked on (we walked for 7 hours this day) to the centre of BA for the historical sights, which for some reason included a gun museum...yep just full of guns! Weird..and a little scary! In the evening we went to a tango show which was fab!! As we hadn´t booked before hand we couldn´t choose our seats so we had front row seats-ah!! The show was amazing, the dancers were so so good, legs and feet everywhere so quickly and elegantly!

The next couple of days we went to La Boca, another neighbourhood in BA. We saw the Boca Juniors football stadium and walked around the colourful streets- there is a street where all the houses are painted really bright colours-was great to see! We also went to the BA zoo which was one of the best I´ve been to, we were followed round by little otters at one point!

We both loved BA so much, it was really sad to leave (especially as we left on a 19 hour bus journey!) the people were so friendly and the food was lovely- I have tasted the best ice cream I´ve ever tasted (and I have tasted a lot of ice cream in my time) it´s a flavour called ´Tramontella´-kind of a mix between fudge and vanilla, and only made in Argentina-and not surprisingly I´ve eaten far too much of it so far!