Somehow its already been 4 days of travel. Saturday was a long day of Traveling. I grabbed a bus to Los Angeles, a plane with a layover to Buenos Aires. Sunday afternoon, Jake and I met up with Mike at the hostel. We kicked things off with some drinks up at the rooftop of the hostel. This is still my favorite place in the whole city. The hostel roof is 7 stories up and you get an amazing view of the city with some Italianesque architecture. There are bunch of tables and some shade to make the tasty Argentinian beer go down smooth. Its really hot here. You cant get used to your clothes sticking to you and walking around with a layer of sweat, but you cant complain about it either since thats all you would be doing. That Sunday the three of us walked around the city, where we checked out a market and got some food. DELICIOUS steak and empinadas........for a lot cheaper than youd ever hope in the states. After a long walk back to the hostel we showered up and got ready for our night. We enjoyed another beer on the rooftop, and joined a group that was doing a pub crawl. It turned out that all the bars we went to were filled with only the small group of us that were part of the crawl. That didnt stop us from having fun. We tore up the dance floor and had a great time. We got back just before sunrise, and drank some more on the roof. This is where I fell asleep temporarily. The next day we started our morning off with some relaxing and drinking on the roof. Starting to see a theme?
We ended up taking another really long walk viewing different sites along the way to a famous cemetery. This place was wicked. Imagine rows of above ground crypts that were all designed to be structural works of art. They were all about 12 feet high is my guess. Pictures of that to come at some point. After we finished up there, Im pretty sure we went back to the hostel roof again. The next stop was this venue called La Bomba. You pay for a ticket to get inside of this really large open air bar/performance. There were percussionists going to town on stage, and dancing hippies to complement the music. At some point I joined them in their hippie dancing, it went pretty well. We ended up making friends with some locals and all split off our separate ways. I ended up going on an impromptu date with a local girl. After the venue was closed we grabbed dinner and drinks. I love how its so common to get a meal at 11;30pm and drinks until whenever. It was a late night for all of us the next morning, so we were all moving a bit slow.
We had our standard rooftop session and visited a place in town called La Boca. Houses were lined up painted all kinds of different colors. It was definitely the edgy creative part of Buenos Airer. The three of us got a great meal with cold cuts and cheese, kidneys, Veil, steak, pork chop, etc plus a bottle of wine to go with it. We all needed a nap after this, so we took a 2 hour siesta to recoop for the night to come. There was a tango show not too far away which we had to rush to get there in time to see. Turns out we were the only ones there in a large dancing hall (awkward) We left to get food and check again to see if people were actually going to show. There ended up being more people, but it wasnt what we were expecting. It looked like mainly ammatures were dancing, yet the oldest people seemed to clearly the best on the dance floor. After that we got drinks with two Australians and they joined us at the club next door. We stayed there for a number of hours, and got home when the sun came up, again.
Buenos Aires is all about eating amazing food, drinking, relaxing, napping, and partying at night. Its a lot like Spain that way, and I love it!
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