Getting out of the desert!I am now in Iguazu discovering the amazing waterfalls here and trying to recover from a crazy week of partying in Buenos Aires! Its right on the frontier between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
Before getting to Buenos Aires, I was in Puerto Madryn, further south, which is basically a base place for exploring the surrounding sealife sites, Peninsula Valdes and Punto Tombo. Peninsula Valdes is good, you get to see sea-lions, sea-elephants, all sorts of birds, some lucky people get to see killer whales but unfortunately they didn't show up to see me... What I really enjoyed was Punto Tombo, site of the biggest penguin colony in South America with half a million of the things running around! We got there really early before the crowds turned up, and the penguins would walk around right next to you, and you could see them cruising at light speed through the clear water by the beach, it was great!
Also of interest around Puerto Madryn were the Welsh settlements! Lots of Welsh people migrated there, and there are definitely some traces of their presence, with the odd flag, lots of Welsh tea houses and the odd person speaks Welsh, but only the odd person! Its a strange place to migrate too though, with some of the towns set in the arid desert.
Getting out of the desert into Buenos Aires was really great. I stayed with Fran who some of you might recall as being the guy I travelled around with in Laos and Vietnam. It was great to stay in his flat after a month and a half sleeping in hostel dormitories, and him and his bro took good care of me with their cooking skills! I really enjoyed the feel of Buenos Aires, the big boulevards, all the trees everywhere, the variety of the different barrios and of course going out. Mauro, the other guy Fran and I were travelling around with back in Asia came into town from the suburb of Quilmes, and together they ensured I got a good feel for the local nightlife, with a different club on the menu almost every night. It definitely has to be one of the most vibrant cities in the world. It was also great to catch up with Mauro and Fran, to see how things had been going for them since their return from Asia. Anyway, got to shot for the 22 hour bus to Rio! Its gonna be quite an ordeal!
A bit of beach football on the Peninsula Valdes
Spot the sea elephants at Peninsula Valdes...
Guanacos near Punta Tombo
Penguin heading towards the sea...
Feeding time!
The biggest penguin colony in South America
Penguin turned tourist
A quick dip in the rocks
On parade
Penguin nests sprawled around this arid field
Chirping away
A beautiful Cormorant Dolphin jumping
Welsh flag in Rawson
Memorial to those lost in the Falklands War
Some little girls having a bit of a ride!
Delicious tea and cakes in Gaiman
Welsh chapel
One of those dragons...
Welsh choir book
The buzzing Buenos Aires(BsAs) district of Palermo
Playing some footie in BsAs
Kids football pitch in the Boca district
Row of houses in Boca
Inside the Boca
Waitress rushing into the photo!
Kids having some beers!
Multicolored house...
The Boca Juniors stadium
Spot the tattoo and the national shortage of change
A peek inside
The pleasant district of San Telmo
Mobile childrens' bicycle shop
San Telmo market
Chess and politcal prisoners
The former HQ of the military government
A tough place to be not so long ago...
Plaza de Mayo protest
Funny to see a flag inside a cathedral...
This man set up shop after the financial crisis...He is unhappy that the dogs of the rich eat better than the kids of the poor...
Part of Palermo
Chilling with Fran and his mates by the rooftop pool
The next Che Guevara
Rum and coke
BsAs rushhour
Hurrying onto the bus!
#130
Constitucion train station
Hockey game in Quilmes
The Quilmes factory, producing beer for a nation!
Mauro, with his mother and sister
Getting ready for the last night out with Fran and Mauro!
Fran's bro and his friends jump in the picture!
Lots of yummy ice cream in BsAs!!!
Bizzarely, the flower shops shut in the day and seem to stay open all night!
The end in BsAs
A comfy Coche Cama! 
1 comment:
aww, i love penguins too! your adventures seem marvellously exciting, i'm very envious. though to be fair, i would be horribly homesick by now...so it's prob best that you're the one travelling around the world! Hope you are keeping well and enjoying Rio. Theo xxx
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