Bienvenidos a Buenos Aires, Argentina

Welcome to Buenos Aires, Argentina!
We apologize immensly for not writing to update you all on what we have been up to!
But here we are, and this is what we have been doing for the last three weeks. Hehe.. Ups...

We left Brasil in a hurry to get to Argentina. On the way we stopped by the Brasilian side of the Iguazu Falls, and then spent a night at the Argentinian side, in the small town of Puerto Iguazu. The waterfalls were amazing and it was interesting to see the two different sides. Wow, that was a lot of water collected at one place! Kinda gets you thirsty!
After spending a night in Puerto Iguazu, we took the bus to Buenos Aires. This was an 18 hour long trip and we took it during the night. It was very fancy and even served champagne after dinner on board. Cannot argue with that.
We then spent 10 days in the lovely city of Buenos Aires, in the area called San Telmo (the tango district), at a hostel called Los Granados. Just to sum up what we have been "passing" the time with, some of the activities were tango lessons, tango show, exploring the local antique markets, shopping (hehe), visiting Evita (her grave that was), hung out in parks, went dining and drinking in Palermo and Puerto Madero. If you ever go to Buenos Aires, try Viejo Gomez.
Awesome steak!!! We also celebrated St. Patricks Day here in Buenos Aires together with two Canadians. Good times. Besides this we visited La Boca, one of the more poorer districts of Buenos Aires. Here they enjoy tango in the colorful streets for all the public to see.

After 10 days of empanadas at La Continental (empanadas are highly addictive small calzones made of butterdough and whatever filling you would want), we got on the plane to the south of Argentina to visit the colder parts of this beautiful country. We reached El Calafate, which is a small town situated in Patagonia on the boarder of Chile. It was like coming home again. Sunny, but very cold. We got to use our wollen underwear and rain jackets while we enjoyed the 10 degrees weather in El Calafate. In Calafate we hung out, made home made meat balls and empanadas. We also went horseback riding along the shore of Lake Argentina, tried the Argentinian tea called Mate and walked around town. Besides this we went twice to explore the glaciers which are situated within the National Park of the Glacier (obviously). The first time we took some sort of a cruise, visiting the northern part of the Patagonian Icefield. The second time around we went hiking on the ice itself, on the glacier named Perito Moreno. So much fun!!!
After enjoying El Calafate for about 6 days, we returned to Buenos Aires on other to catch our last tango lesson and to go to a famous club called Club 69. On Friday 3 April, we will take the bus to Mendoza, the main wine district of Argentina. We only have one thing on the agenda for this stop; wine tasting! After this we will leave Argentina, and head on over to Chile. The plan is to stop in Santiago for a couple of days and then head on up to San Pedro de Atacama. Here are some pictures for you to enjoy while we might take another 3 weeks to update this blog. Hehe. Thats how things are done here in South America, and that is how we do things too. Mañana, mañana. That is our new motto! So long!