Iguazu

So we took the bus 18hours north of Buenos Aires to Iguazu, where the famous Iguazu Falls are :)
The bus trip wasnt as bad as you imagine, the chairs recline and they feed you so thats all good, first hostel experience aswel, very cool and chilled, hammocks in the garden, everyone super chilled and friendly, its also where all the red indians and gaucho's (cowboys) live so they have all their little stores on the side of the road, very cool.

The falls are amazing, even the photos dont do them justice, so beautiful, also went on the boat trip where you go real close and we got soaked...well worth the 36hours round trip though...feels good to be back

This is where they get their steaks from :)

on the boat just before going under the falls..so much fun...

after the boat ride!!!

afternoon siesta at the hostel

Ok so the last two photos i took from the bus so their not very clear, these are called "villas" directly translated to villages, they are unclaimed land inbetween the rail way tracks that people have now made into south americans version of shanty towns, its where all the pick pockets leave, lots of drugs there, not very nice people, as a tourist you would try not to go anywhere near here, its right behind the bus station so as you walk to the bus station you can see it from a far so thats why you have to be careful around that area (we went there to book our tickets with the guys mum dont worry) but we had our hands on our bags all the time and would only speak spanish to each other just to try and help us out about. ive showed you the beautiful side of argentina its only fair i show you the other side

Soaked right through...welcome to the tropical climate!

13 mosquito bites and counting, gilda (our flatmate who looks like shakira) has no air con so the windows have to be open and they seem to love the anti mosquito spray! grrrrrrr even the net didnt work

when it rains...oh it rains

first demo :)

Flights have been booked for Uruguay and Brazil!!!!
 yeahhhhh baby, we're thinking of getting this photo on a t shirt for a team t shirt  :)

picnic in the park....3 amigos <3

Buenos Aires Fahion Week, Lazy day in the park and the Zone Visit

Buenos Aires Fahion Week!!

all the chicas as fashion week

The runway

Walking through the old part of the city and walked straight into a street performance

chill out day at the flower park, the park opens and closes with sunlight

slightly addicted to mate now

Zone visit..had to get up at half 5...face pain!

La Plate stadium, holds 70,000

One of my favourite places in the whole city, used to be a theatre now its a library and a book store, its amazing, people just sit and read in the boxes, argentines do love their books

All dressed up for fashion week

Recoleta Cemetry where Evita is buried

Two weeks in :)

Alana is still alana regardless of where she is, still loves her cuppa teas and chocolate

view from our old apartment at night

Plaza Cerrano....Palermo Soho our new neighbourhood, Argentinas version of camden/portobello road but withouy the drugs and scary people, its magical. I love it here <3

Sunday Afternoons...spent market shopping and then drinks on the roof top terrace

This shows i deserved an icecream!!!!

America has the white house..Buenos Aires has the pink house

Salsa

I have never seen so many dogs in one city, they love their dogs out here, watching dog walkers in the park is hilarious,



The two girls who hate beer now drink Argentinian Beer!! (only one glass mum!!)

Amazing weekend in Rosario

Its bank holiday here so everyone has monday and tuesday off aswel, so we headed 3hours out of Buenos Aires to the beautiful suburbs of Rosario, a weekend spent, dancing argentinian styley, eating argentinian food, and staying with the cutest little argentinian family ever,



Group Photo to finish off the weekend, had so much fun, met some amazing people

                                   This is a really famous monument in Rosario, its to do with the making of the flag and how it represnts the sky,clouds and sun, embassy's from all over come here and they have big fiestas here in the summer, from a birds eye view it looks like a ship!

                                     After an amazing weekend, the lovely roadtrip home at sunset

                                     'Mate' the argentines are wild for it, constantly drinking it, its like green tea but better, metal straw to keep it hot when your drinking and a sift at the bottom of the straw to stop the leaves coming up, pour hot water into a cup full of mate leaves and drink, when your done, pass it along and the next person pours some more hot water and there you go, only add more leaves as you need to, and everyone seems to be ok with sharing it!

The girl whos house we were at most of the weeekend had a pool, and a huge bbq house, where suprisingly it was all the boys who cooked, apparently thats the done thing HELLO ARGENTINA

These are called 'chipas' they are cooked on the bbq and its typical argentina nibble food before maan course, its like dough with with cheese inside...divine!Also 60% of argentines originate from italy so their pizza and ice creams are amazing!! i got a feeling im not gonna be getting skinny after 2 months haha :)


Last but not least our argentinian mami y papa, they didnt speak a word of english  so now my brain hurts from thinking in spanish all weekend, the only way i can describe the place where they lived is check out rihanna-man down music video and when shes walking and old people are playing cards in the street, and selling fruit and its all kind of run down but still pretty...well thats it <3.