Buenos Aires and Iguacu Falls

Buenos Aires

We flew into a ghostly quiet BA (slightly dodgy flight with a "reject" landing…) - the streets were empty due to a massive football game at the nearby Boca stadium. It's a fantastic place, one of our favourite cities - full of beautiful architecture and friendly people. We walked to all of the main touristy sights including a famous cemetery (Cementerio de la Recoleta) full of decorative mausoleums of the former rich and famous residents. Many have the coffins on display which was a bit eerie, but most people just come to see the final resting place of Eva Peron (Evita).

Having spent years watching strictly come dancing, I couldn’t wait to see a real Tango. We went to a small venue and were lucky to get a table at the front, although unlucky to be sharing it with a crazy woman who was complaining about everything, and embarrassed us all by screaming at the waiters “DOES ANYBODY SPEAK ENGLISH?” That aside, the show began with a random slapstick dancing scene - more Laurel and Hardy than Vincent and Flavia, but luckily, after a few minutes someone appeared to flip a switch and the show came to life with fantastic footwork.


Iguassu falls

The next few days made for pretty easy travelling. We stayed on the Argy side of the falls and took a local bus to spend the day in the national park. This was the first time that either of us had been to one of the major falls, and it was very impressive. We were surprised how close we could get. The weather was beautiful, which was a result, allowing us to dry off after a boat ride under the falls completely soaked us - very funny and had to be done! One of our fellow boat passengers was a slightly scary old Argentinean bloke who stripped down to his Y-fronts (sensible, but unpleasant for the rest of us!) for added effect he screamed like a loon the whole time.

On the Brazilian side of the falls you can get a better view of the whole thing, so we negotiated a few different busses and hopped over the border to have a look.

Having spent a few days relaxing in Iguassu we took a 24 hour bus to the city of Salta, a nice, relaxing town and our last stop in Argentina.

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