elcamino

4 days - more than 60 hours on train and bus - 1 beautiful experience Wednesday morning before work: Rush to the train station to book the well planned trip to the North of Argentina. Plan was: Going to Salta, see surroundings, go to Tucuman and take the train back. Thats what we booked. Ended up being just a little bit different, but thats the fun about "backpacking", I guess;) Provided with many advice where to go and what to see by the very friendly and welcoming people at my workplace, we left with a luxurious "cama"-bus (reclining seats up to 160 degrees) Buenos Aires at 18.30. After roughly 18 hours - including 4 movies, which I all watched in Spanish...well, there were in English, but due to the perfectly located aircondition (above my head), ... read more

Martes Finally back in good old Buenos Aires and finally perfect vision again (replaced the contactlenses I had lost in Iguazu on the second day). Made it just in time back, twenty minutes late for second class of the day. In the afternoon I got to learn a South American card game called TRUCO. it is sooo much fun and soo weird. The first thirty minutes we spend trying to understand the order and the signs of the cards. You might ask: How hard can it be to figure out the order of 1-7 and 10-12. When the #1 of two colours are the highest, the other two are low cards, 3 is more than 12 and 7 is less than 10...or more, depending on the color. Add a couple of signs to show your teammate ... read more

¿Tienes pasaporte? Second day in Buenos Aires... i need some local money! First day at school... i need to learn some Spanish;) Very nice teachers who explain very well and even I understand most of it. Roughly 20 other students from all over the world. Lots of people from Holland, two from Germany and some more from somewhere. After school and "el curso de la regiones de Argentina" (- very interesting) off to the next bank. Pulled out my traveller scheques and the German ID including a copy of my passport: Quisiero pesos! But without the original passport you won´t get anything. Can´t hand in scheques and can´t even change dolares for pesos. So back "home", got the passport, went back to the bank. Well, at least I tried. El banco closes at 3pm.... every single ... read more