Beef me up!
Next location: Ihla Grande and Rio (Brazil)
Current Location: Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Last Location: Iguazu falls (Argentina)
In US of A its all about the Benjamins, in Argentina its all about the beef.
The truly amazing thing with the Argentinian beef is not that its the best youll ever taste (it is), its not that its the nicest red color, its not that it costs you close to nothing, its not that it makes you want to go primal and go hunting naked (it does)…
its the fact that it is so tender you can use your tongue alone to handle it. No teeth needed. It is almost like butter, yet with the greatest texture.
But from one type of beef to another, gayclubs and dancing shirtless on stage. Haha, ill get to that.
Martin and I flew in to Buenos Aires from Caracas on a Saturday morning. After having a quick breakfast we went looking for hostel. Luckily it was still early, so that killer summerheat was still dorment. We found a street with three in a row. Things were looking good. The saturday was spent walking around and checking out the city, which is huge and majestetic for the most. Our initial impression was that the Argentinian girls were subpar lookwise compared to the Venezuelans beauties we had left behind. In retrospect, I was wrong. They are a different kind of gorgeous.
Later that Saturday we met up with a friend of Martins from Venezuela called Mario. He was a nice guy and showed us around. Sunday we met up with Andreas a norwegian aquintance of Martin. Cool dude, very similar minded. He took us out to a famous beef place which changed my view on vegetarians from respected animal friendly individuals to fu¨¨ing loosers. If you dont eat meat changes are i dont trust you. haha. After having our religious beef experience we thought it about time to check out the infamous BA night scene. We were told that the only place happening on a Sunday was a semi-gay club called Amerika. A nightclub is a nightclub we figured and headed out with Andreas.
Amerika was fully gay. Half the men had sunglasses and their shirts off. Maybe a nightclub isn´t just a nightclub, but a beer is a beer. Regardless, the night turned into day and we all stumbled home after a great party.
Half way through the week we changed to a hostel called Portal del sur. Best hostel I´ve ever stayed at, staff were legitamately friendly, the guests were all cool and we were a bit like a big family. We ate dinner together and went out together. Good times. Great success.
BA is called the Paris of South America, Martin found that description right on. From the dog shit in the street to the old and classical architecture. A great city to just walk around in
A great place to visit is the famous graveyard in Recoleta. Hundreds of above ground graves. New ones and old ones. Some were creepy as… (hell). Flies were buzzing around and hundreds of cats roamed the alleys. And though many tourists were there, its so big you can wander freely. If it was in US they probably would have put up speakers with crow sounds and chain rattling, but personally I think it was a fairly respectful place for Evita Peron´s body to rest.
Halfway through the week, by freak coincedence, Tone a Norwegian girl I went to University with on the Gold Coast recognized me in the hostel lobby. She and her friend Linn were the first Norwegians we had met on our trip so far, and it turns out I knew one of them. Norway is a small country.
We both undertook spanish courses during the week in Buenos Aires. Martin felt it was better with one lesson there, than his whole 3 months course in Norway. Personally I have learned enough to make myself understood with an extensive amount of hand gestures.
The last day we went outside the city to a little colonial suburbish town of BA called Tigre. A city built around its swampish southern US kind of canals. Charming place.
All in all Buenos Aires is strong on my recommandation list.
it has a has a great vibe to it, safe, pitoresque and dirt cheap for anyone from a country with a stable currency.
Check out the rest of the pictures from BA on http://gallery.discosuperfly.biz
Chao
Tommy
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