Lost in Translation #1

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River in Rosario

In total we spent about 5 days in Buenos Aires, not enough time but we got to see a few of the places around the city. We went to Recoleta and visited the massive graveyard there. It is were Eva Peron and bunch of other ridiculously rich people are buried. The graves are mad, its like a town. After that we ventured to the Zoo... one of the worst zoos ever. There were enclosures that didn´t have animals in them anymore and the animals that were still alive were either manky looking or pacing up and down their enclosures. Still I got to see a puma and jaguar so I was happy. Some of the other areas we checked out were Puerto Maderom and La Boca (home to Boca Junoirs). We missed their last game of season by a day which is a shame because is would have been LOCO.

Our next stop was Rosario and our first lost in translation incident. We arrived during siesta time on Sunday afternoon and the place was a ghost town. In a bid to save some pesos we bought dinner at the supermercado and also some cerveza because they were sooooooo cheap. When we got to the check out the lady trys to inform us that as an incentive for recycling a deposit is paid and when you return the bottles with the receipt you get the 10 pesos back. However we didn´t have Maja with us and we are standing there like stunned mullets trying to make sense of what she is saying. It didn´t help that John was doing his best spanglish... ´Mucho Si, uno crato´. Instead of just giving up everyone around us thought that their spanish was easier to understand and it got louder and slower. All we could do was laugh which of course got us no where. Once Maja arrived it all made sense. To top of our reputation we returned all the bottles about 2 hours later.

The second incident happened the next day. We got some yoghurt and as we got to the counter we managed to drop it and make a mess. Pretty much the same thing happened, everyone starts speaking in spanish, John and I are saying ´no espanol,´ but that doesn´t stop them.

Rosario is a pretty cool place, it´s inland but has a massive river. We walked around the town and saw some cool stuff. The hostel we stayed at Che Pampa´s (apparently Che Guerva was born here) was pretty cool. Other than the supermarket Rosario was farely uneventful, but when I get on to telling about the next few towns there should be an adventure or two.

The map feature on here doens´t have Argentina detailed so I can´t show you our journey across the country. I will get to it soon though. I added heaps more photos and a video...

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Photos

Eva Peron grave
When we got to the cementary this lady who gave us a map told we had to visit all the other graves because they would cry if we didn´t. (she may have been slightly mad...)

Recoletta Cementary
This place is massive. It´s were the rich and wealthy are buried when they die. Most of them are crypts with muchos family members in them.

It´s on all the postcards
This particular building seems to be fairly important, as most of the postcards for La Boca have this on it. Inside were just markets, but its pretty typical of the building in this area. They are all the conlonial style, but have been painted with bright colours.

Jaguar
This zoo was pretty bad, I think the jaguars look reasonably healthy in comparison to the other animals.

Goofiest Animal in the Zoo
This llama or alpaca, was the funniest looking animal there. I´m not sure if all alpaca´s teeth look like that, but the others didn´t.

On the river
Walking along the river bank in Rosario was fun, until we got to a fenced off part. Turns out about 100m of it had caved in, not sure how though. This section I think used to be a wharf, but now just entertains all the stray dogs.

Peanut Silos eat your heart out
When I saw this in the distant I thought I was loco, but these old silos have been converted into the muesum of contemporary art. (which isn´t open on Mondays!)

Monument to the Flag #1
Located in Rosario this is Argentina´s monument to their flag. It´s massive! This is only 1 half of it. I think it is viewed better at night. In this building is housed a flame, kinda like the eternal flame.

Monument to the Flag #2
This is the other half of the monument. It´s massive. At night there is two blue lights streamed up on all sides of it to create an image like the flag. Its pretty cool. The guy who designed the flag is also buried in there.