My Cordoba Week

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hi, how you guys? i am still alive (: ... i spent the
last couple of weeks in Cordoba, Mendoza (and around
them - started seeing a little of Arentina's beautiful
nature) and came back to BsAs this weekend. tomorrow
it will be my 1 year out of the army and half a year
away from home, and to celebrate it i am flying to
Ushuaia - the southernmost city in Argentina. I spent
a week in the Cordoba area. I couchsurfed with a woman
that works for the tourism office, and she was really
friendly and cool (although half of the week we kept
missing each other...), and knew where all of the
necessities around were. Cordoba is a really cool
city, much easier to live in, more laid back and
cheaper than BsAs, and full with students and old
churches (generally a beautiful city). I spent my 2nd
day there (after doing nothing in the first one)
walking around the old city - they have a lot of old
churches, some nice squares, a lively 'midrahov' and i
ended the day with a guided tour in the jesuit block -
it is a UNESCO heritage site that includes and old
church and 2 colleges. our guide was a very
intelligent girl with perfect english (rare around
here!), and the 1 hour tour turned into 2 hours in
which we talked with her about everything that bothers
her about her country - it was really interesting. at
night i went to a tango lesson in a really cute small
place with another couchsurfer, and it was a really
nice social... The next day I walked around the city
some more and on Friday went to Alta Gracia, a small
city nearby that has a Jesiut Estancia (the rural
version of the Jesuit Block in Cordoba) and a Che
Guevara Museum (he grew up there, and from his letters
he seems absolutely obsessed with the "revolution") -
it's a nicelooking town but kinda boring. At the
evening I went to a synagogue in Cordoba that had a
lot of security around it and turned out to be reform
and much weirder than the "reform" i was used to
(camp) - 2 girls singing with a microphone most of the
prayers, 'lehanim' that i never heard before and a
rabbi that talks a lot and in spanish... On Saturday I
went to Villa General Belgrano, a small and pretty
touristy village around Cordoba and went skydiving! It
was so cool - the scariest part was flying for 15
minutes in this small airplane (that was needed to be
jumpstarted from a car 😊 with amazing view, then the
freefall - a short time in which you are just falling
fast in the air - that was the best part, and then the
instructor opens the parashoot and you slowly hover
over the town until it is time to land. it was a great
experience but too expensive to do again (: afterwards
I went up a nearby mountain and got another look at
the area and went back. At night i went to some
Hospitality Club party at some student's house (got a
CS mail about it from someone that wasn't even
there...) - it was definitely fun, and i got to
practice my spanish since most of them didn't speak
any english... On sunday I went to the city's park -
so many people... The next day I wanted to go hiking
in the area, but the local buses were on strike, so i
got to see the employees banging drums around the
terminal (but in BsAs it is something you can see
everyday somewhere in the city...). The next day the
strike ended, so I took the bus to Parque Nacional
Condoritos - the view on the bus ride was really
beautiful, a road that goes through so many mountains
and no houses anywhere. After a 2-4 hour hike you are
supposed to get to 2 outlooks with good views and
chances to see Condors, but I got there pretty late
and the sky looked like it was about to rain, so after
walking around for an hour I turned back, but still
the views on the way were beautiful. Then I went back,
booked a bus for the night to mendoza, took my stuff
said goodbye to Fer (maybe i will meet her in
Bolivia...), and headed to Mendoza. Well that was
about 2 weeks ago, but hey, it is better than nothing
so in the meantime that´s it. so be safe and don´t
take candys from strangers.
love you all,
Roi
p.s. i uploaded first 200 pics from argentina, so u
can check it out. it is still messy as hell so u won´t
know what u see but, again, better than nothing. and
it was so much work to upload too...

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