Last destination: Buenos Aires

After the last long busride (19 hours) I've arrived in BA a bit more than a week ago. Buenos Aires is a huge change to traveling in Ecuador & Peru and the loneliness of Patagonia.
It's a lot more european than any other city I've been to in South America and with all the great food, good nightlife, cheap but pretty clothing and souvenirs it's just the right place to end my trip!

During the first couple of days we stayed with a really nice couple, Nelly & Claudio, who were the parents of friends we got to know in Santiago, while we went appartment-hunting for Nigel. We checked out a couple of places and Nigel ended up renting a nice 1-room appartment in Palermo, a really pretty and safe neighbourhood in BA. Staying in an appartment is such a nice change to crappy and dirty hostels. I love it!

There's tons of fun stuff to do in BA. So far we've been to Recoleta (probably the most pretty & expensive part of BA) and the cemetery there. It's such a weird place! There's no real graves but huge tombs. They are arranged so they build different alleys and the whole place looks more like an actual city in the center of Buenos Aires. There's Evita Peron's and the grave of many other famous Agentinians on the cemetery and it was funny to see loads of tourists standing next to the door of Evita's tomb which was covered in red roses, taking pictures.

Then there was Puerto Madero, right next to the docks with tons of nice restaurants (Sushi, yumm!) and different arts & craft markets in different areas of the city with San Telmo being my fav! Lots of antiques, ridiculously cheap!

We also went to La Boca, apparently a rather dangerous area but really beautiful with all the coloured houses, nice restaurants and tango dancers in the streets.

Speaking of dangers... the day after we got here we saw a robbery on the street out of the window of a restaurant (nice welcome present) and last night we witnessed a parked car burning on the street and lots of argentinian cops standing around not knowing what to do. It took them 10 minutes to come to the conclusion that MAYBE they should block the road since there was loads of cars & buses driving right by the burning car. They don't have the slightest plan here!!!