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Published: October 10th 2011
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I arrived in Buenos Aires after an 18 hour bus ride with a bruised tailbone. I spent 3 days in the city, exploring many many parks and streets and I EVEN took the subway all by myself which I was really really proud of. The city is quite beautiful which tons of colonial architecture and sooooo many parks. And theres fruit markets and dog walkers that walk 20 dogs at a time without getting the leashes tangled!!
One day I went to see the Plaza de Mayo which I really wanted to see. In 1977, Argentina was under military communist rule and anybody who said or did anything against the government would just disappear. More than 20,000 people were taken by the government and tortured and usually killed. Sometimes their bodies were returned to the families as a special ¨fuck you¨. Anyway, the mothers of the desaparecidos started marching in 1977 with photos of their missing sons and daughters pinned to their shirts. ¨Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo¨ was a peaceful resistance that actually sparked the revolution into a more democratic government that Argentina has today. Las Madres still walk every Thursday in the Plaza and so I
went to see them and it was really amazingly powerful. I even got to meet some of them. They are so old now, and most of them still have no idea what happened to their children. Its really sad.
Later that night I met up with some friends from UCSD who are studying in Buenos Aires and Thursday night we took a short 10 hour bus ride to Cordoba. My friend Caitlin and I lost a tiny bit track of time, and we ended up having to literally run with our huge backpacks through 6 blocks and two subway lines to get to the bus station to catch our bus. And it was pouring rain. But we did manage to catch the bus!
Cordoba was just so quaint. We stayed in a REALLY nice hostel thats brand new and the people were so cool. We actually had to stay in the staff room because the hostel was booked to the ceilings. We explored the city of Cordoba a little bit to see the main plaza and the cathedral and the museum of the desaparecidos. It was cool. Then we went to OKTOBERFEST!!!!
Oktoberfest was actually in a
German settlement town 2 hours out of Cordoba. 200 years ago a bunch of Germans moved there and set up a mock German town. Theres a Welsh version further down the coast as well. So everything in German village style and the perfect setting for Oktoberfest. The first day it was raining but it made it more ridiculous because everybody was covered in mud. There was lots of dancing and people doing stupid things, and at several points we were literally showered with beer. So, all in all, a great time!!
From Cordoba I took a 20 hour bus ride (my tailbone still hurts) to Puerto Madryn, which is like three quarters down the east coast of Argentina. ÝES IM IN PATAGONIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woo hooo!!! Im going to stay here for a couple nights because they have the largest marine animal reserve in South America and then I don´t know where I´m going next!
MORE COOL PICTURES BELOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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