We arrived into Buenos Aires after a 24hr bus which was REALLY long! The bus company that we went with, Andesmar were actually really good and we got food throughout our 24hr bus journey starting with a cake and tea and we had dinner, breakfast and yet more cake and coffee! Positively comfortable.
Arriving to our hostel was a different matter. The hostel was dark, dirty and pretty disgusting...but we thought that as we had had such luck with all our other hostels it would be alright so booked in for 4 nights and went out for dinner in the cool district of palermo where everyone sits out in the streets, drinking, chatting etc and listening to live music which was pretty fun and we went to bar with some pool tables....it all started so well!
The next day we went into the city centre not really having a clue where the hostel was and where we were meant to be going. Buenos Aires is large, sprawling, has loads of dog poo on the streets and can be beautiful and modern but at the same time a big dirty city...so we headed for the main city centre to see the catedral and the main shopping centre party...tash got very excited about all the shops along florida street which we wandered along. we stopped at the end and tash had realised that her /70 pound watch had fallen off her wrist so we had to charge back along the street to try and find it to no avail. both of ours spanish is pretty basic and even the police were no help.
So we decided to get out of the city centre and head down to the very cool and chic area of la boca which is where the massive football statium is and its where tango is and all the colourful buildings you expect from B.A. we had a wander around there and had lunch...and it was really cool area.. lots of street art and a really good vibe.
We then got the bus back to the centre and we wanted to go and see the cemetary in Recoleta which is meant to be amazing, with all these elaborate graves...but on the way to this place we got played by these thiefs who took off with my bag...yep pretty awful..but very common and we were pretty much text book robbery...they sprayed some stuff on our backs then separated us from our bags..they even had to drag tash away from the bags and then took off with mine...so i was pretty pissed off - more at myself for being a complete idiot.
So then we had to go through the whole performance of getting the police report, telling insurance etc...we had to wait until monday...and tash wasn't that keen to do anything on sunday but i managed to convince her to go out and so we did actually get to see the cemetary which was really cool and there was a small market nearby it...i just wanted to spend as much time as possible away from the hostel which was really not nice because the roomy of ours kept smoking weed all the time so it gave me a massive headache!!! so we didn't really have a good trip at all to B.A .
By the time we sorted out the new card i have to get sent out to me, the police report all Tash and i wanted to do was to get out of B.A. so we booked ourselves a bus out to Puerto Iguazu which we promtly got on our bus and drove through the thunderstorm away from the nasty big city!!!
So now in Iguazu which is where one of the biggest waterfalls in the world is and we are planning a little trip to go over to Paraguay because apparently they have cheap electrical goods which i need then go to the falls the next day so i can go snap happy once again. we are also staying in the nicest hostel ever and they are super helpful with all the directions so its really nice to feel safe again!
So had a pretty bad couple of days but hopefully everything is sorted again now and we can get on and put that behind us. All of now. J xxx
Arriving to our hostel was a different matter. The hostel was dark, dirty and pretty disgusting...but we thought that as we had had such luck with all our other hostels it would be alright so booked in for 4 nights and went out for dinner in the cool district of palermo where everyone sits out in the streets, drinking, chatting etc and listening to live music which was pretty fun and we went to bar with some pool tables....it all started so well!
The next day we went into the city centre not really having a clue where the hostel was and where we were meant to be going. Buenos Aires is large, sprawling, has loads of dog poo on the streets and can be beautiful and modern but at the same time a big dirty city...so we headed for the main city centre to see the catedral and the main shopping centre party...tash got very excited about all the shops along florida street which we wandered along. we stopped at the end and tash had realised that her /70 pound watch had fallen off her wrist so we had to charge back along the street to try and find it to no avail. both of ours spanish is pretty basic and even the police were no help.
So we decided to get out of the city centre and head down to the very cool and chic area of la boca which is where the massive football statium is and its where tango is and all the colourful buildings you expect from B.A. we had a wander around there and had lunch...and it was really cool area.. lots of street art and a really good vibe.
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| La Boca |
We then got the bus back to the centre and we wanted to go and see the cemetary in Recoleta which is meant to be amazing, with all these elaborate graves...but on the way to this place we got played by these thiefs who took off with my bag...yep pretty awful..but very common and we were pretty much text book robbery...they sprayed some stuff on our backs then separated us from our bags..they even had to drag tash away from the bags and then took off with mine...so i was pretty pissed off - more at myself for being a complete idiot.
So then we had to go through the whole performance of getting the police report, telling insurance etc...we had to wait until monday...and tash wasn't that keen to do anything on sunday but i managed to convince her to go out and so we did actually get to see the cemetary which was really cool and there was a small market nearby it...i just wanted to spend as much time as possible away from the hostel which was really not nice because the roomy of ours kept smoking weed all the time so it gave me a massive headache!!! so we didn't really have a good trip at all to B.A .
By the time we sorted out the new card i have to get sent out to me, the police report all Tash and i wanted to do was to get out of B.A. so we booked ourselves a bus out to Puerto Iguazu which we promtly got on our bus and drove through the thunderstorm away from the nasty big city!!!
So now in Iguazu which is where one of the biggest waterfalls in the world is and we are planning a little trip to go over to Paraguay because apparently they have cheap electrical goods which i need then go to the falls the next day so i can go snap happy once again. we are also staying in the nicest hostel ever and they are super helpful with all the directions so its really nice to feel safe again!
So had a pretty bad couple of days but hopefully everything is sorted again now and we can get on and put that behind us. All of now. J xxx
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