Buenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital city of Argentina, and is known as the ´Paris of the south´, partially because of its arty farty culture, and heavily european influenced architecture. Its actually a really pretty and clean city, the people are really friendly and the food is rediculously good and cheap, i mean like practically giving it away... 3 FREAKIN HUGE STEAKS, REAL chips (gwennie style) , salad, 2 x i litre ´grande´beers for 80 pesos in total (about $30 au or ten dollars each).
We went for a walk to the government building (the evita dont cry for me argentina balcony) and then to some awesome street markets full of antique jewellry, cameras and paintings, then generally soaked up the atmosphere of town. The chick at the hostel counter was rude and tempermental and it was lucky we only had one night here beacause all of the rooms backed on to a communal dining\reception\bar\tv area that at night meant you got pretty much no sleep (except for macca who managed to sleep through the take off and landing of the plane to iguacu).
We´re at a different hostel tonight, and its got free and working computers and the staff seem alot more friendly. they even have a ping pong table!
oh and the main road through town here is 18 lanes wide (the photo)... crazy eh..
mwa mwa´s
-braddles
