Buenos Aires

The bus ride to Buenos Aires was pretty cool.. There was Champaign, Hot food snacks and all sorts of stuff served on the bus for free which was what they called a cama bus.. It wasn't bad at all.. I liked it alot. The seats are better than my couch at home and I was sitting in the front seat the panoramic seats... mean that's how good they were and I ain't kidding.. Anyways I got to BA and and went straight to the hostel with the instructions I was given and asked the guy at the desk so many questions about the city he lives in, that I think he got a little annoyed at me as according to him my view of BA wasn't as it should be, this was the direct result of my reading my lonely planet instead of asking a local person. After all of this I decided to go back to the area around the bus station which i saw had quite good food for a very cheap price. I think it was around ARP$10 which is around NZD$3 for a Steak and some mash.. It wasn't bad at all.. I think this is the only time I was actually ready and willing to give a tip to the guy who was serving me the food as he was quite nice and I knew how much he was being paid which wasn't much at all.. I walked around the city and went on the underground and basically explored a little, on the way back to the hostel I managed to come across a replica of big ben which was under restoration so I couldn't go up but it was pretty cool. The people and culture around the city was evident that is to say that there's people on the side of the street selling anything from hot dogs to socks to electrical goods.. It was amazing and very exciting for me as it reminded me somewhat of the lifestyle in china and hong kong. The second day around midday I headed to the ecological park which was a main part of the city and it surrounded most of the waterfront of the city. As I entered the park I found a caged area with animals which I didn't expect and have never seen before in real life an owl.. It was funny.. It didn't move or anything but it was pretty exciting to see it for the first time. Afterward on my way around the park I was approached by an american lady whom was wanting to know where the exit to the park was and basically to cut things short... Her and her sister accompanied me to the top of a building in downtown BA for a drink, from where you could see the entire city. I stayed to see part of the sunset and to see the city's lights being switched on.. It was beautiful. There will be pictures now since I actually have a laptop that works. The old one decided that it wouldn't comply and basically ate some of my photos... The next day would be probably the funniest for those of you who know me and how dumb I am with international celebrities of history... OK do you know who Evita is.. Well if you know you're lucky but you're not allowed to give the reason that you learned about her in the movie featuring Madonna.. This is not a valid reason for knowing who she is.. Well as for me.. I hadn't even seen the film let alone knew about this person in any way shape or form.. Anyways.. I was told that if I was to learn anything whilst in BA I should go find out Evita.. So I decided to devote an entire day to this woman.. First was Recoleta the place where she is now resting in peace after being returned by the military.. Argentina has had some of the most interesting history I have ever come across.. The life of Evita is amazing I shall tell you more when I remember again.. It's been around 2 and a half months since this event.. But I will tell you for the time being I shall tell you the places I visited whilst on my day of evita.. Well after the cemetery I went to try and find the memorial but was not ever able to find it after asking many people where it was and also the police they were not able to tell me specifically where it was so I headed for the Museum of Evita and spent the rest of the day there reading and looking and trying to understand the political climate of the time. Evita is probably the most loved woman in Argentina on a similar par to that of Princess Diana in Britain. In essence or in my view I think she changed Argentina forever before and after her death to cancer.. So that was my day of Evita.. So... Upon returning to the hostel I met some of the guys who were staying there and an irish girl in the same dorm. It was her last day in argentina and basically she wanted to go out and have a night on the town.. So we all decided to join her in this momentous occasion. So we headed out on the town but what did we find nothing was open after all the hype that we'd be given about the night life in BA it was a disappointment but still we had a good time and good laughs.. It was interesting... This has brought us all to swear that we're not going to trust an irish girl to lead us to the best club in town. LOL... The following day, we were told about a great place to go to see the main road of BA which has 12 lanes of traffic.. But it was at a hotel the Panamerican in which we would have to sneak through security and the people at the bar to get a look down the street.. Anyways we all got past the lobby and ended up at the top of the building but were told that we were not allowed to take photos.. But did we of course we did.. The results were amazing we had good photos.. After which we went to try and find some contemporary museums and managed to find one which wasn't bad called jose mendez.. After the museum we all decided that we wanted to go to Colonia, Uruguay for a day.. So we went to buy tickets and so forth.. It was quite cool.. The next day we set out for Colonia.. Which will be the next installment.. Please call 1800-buy-tsz in the next 10 minutes and you're receive not 1 but 2 books of his travels around the world.. But wait there's more if you call now you will not only get the next installment but all the back catalogue of his travels from when he was a baby.. alright enough of informercials.. On to the next part of the trip...