Despite their reputation, we found most of the locals in BA to be helpful and kind, but that didn’t help ease the shock of how expensive everything was. We did our research from a Lonely Planet guidebook that was five years old (oops!) and it seems Argentina is not as affordable as it was. Prices have at least tripled and in some cases are up to 10 times as much as we’d expected. So after one night we hopped on a four hour bus to Rosario, a small city on a wide river. It was here that we noticed everyone, and I mean every single person, was carrying a small pot and a thermos. We asked the guy at the hostel what it was and he said ‘yerba mate’ - a strong herbal tea that Argentineans
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