Argentina 2

Buenos Aires – Argentina, part 2.

We had to change hotels in order to appease the lords of our budgets. We moved to the Hotel Cocao – a bit of a dive in all honesty. The toilet was not very nice and there were lots of little flies around but we weren’t in the humour of rerouting ourselves so we hunkered down there for a few days. After dumping our stuff, we hit the Buenos Aires zoo. It was a gorgeous day and we saw lots of lovely animals. It’s a shame that the enclosures were so small. They had five huge pumas in one teeny cage with no room to run around or nothing, neither did the bears! It was terrible. The condors too had noooo room whatsoever.

We went for the second best tuna sandwich in the land (the first being the one with snob sauce in the Galapagos) and a beer. We walked down to the Japanese Gardens where we saw the most Coi in the land in the little Japanese river. We had some fizzy pop then trekked back home again. Pheweee all this trekking. We headed to San Telmo later where we had more fantastic food in this little gay run bar.

On Wednesday, Jimbob went to get some yummy breakfast of breadrolls, honey, apples, bananas, yoghurt and muesli. I think today we went to La Boca. We trekked for a while then hopped on a bus to LA Boca. We tripped down the colourful streets of La Boca, looked at the Tango dancers and all the lovely artwork. Then we had a fantastic 5 peso sandwich which was delicious. Wowzers all the good food coming at the end of BA.
We went to the Boca Juniors stadium and had a wander around. We went right up to the top seats and nearly had vertigo, we quickly took some pictures and held the railings as we went back down the steps. WE got lost on the way out of the stadium and were running up and down stairs for another 15 minutes looking for the exit. We got the bus through some dodgy looking areas and jumped off at the shopping streets downtown. Jimbob stopped me from buying some books again, he said where would it end – we’d end up being a traveling library.. lol.

I tried on some pants (whilst shopping) and then we headed back to the hotel. We had some Chinese food on the way back – the worst Chinese food in the land. I spoke too soon earlier. Yucky ducky. Bland a rama.

Well I think after this, we had already run out of things to do here in BA. He he.
But we had decided to stay here in town so we could go & see Tarentella & Redanka on Saturday night in Pacha. We started to sleep late and then we did boring things like laundry, interneting, drinking beer & eating unlimited free popcorn in some Irish bar. On Saturday we lounged about before heading out. As noone goes out til 1am, we had to amuse ourselves (on the cheap) until then. Even still – when we got to Pacha at 2am, the place was empty. We explored the club upstairs drinking vodka & what tasted like Jif lemon for a half hour. It has a cool outdoor area right beside the sea, which I’d say was amazing at sunrise. It was a pretty cool club. Then after our explorations, we went downstairs to the main floor – the place was RAMMED. It was unbelieveable. You could not move. It was great – we were up boogieing in our “Sunday clothes” and having a right auld larf. It was progmania but we hammed it up anywho. I heard some people murmur “wow who are those two, they can really move….”, as we faded away into the night…