Back to Buenos Aires, and man does it feel good. We rented a small one bedroom apartment for the five days in BA we have left before meeting the crew in Cusco. The apartment was located in roughly the same neighborhood we had stayed in before but this time we were more in the thick of it, Palermo-Hollywood. The apartment was cute, cozy, and brand new. Best of all, we had our own space and our own kitchen for the same cost as a hostel downtown. It wasn't until...

We landed in Buenos Aires and made our way into the city without any fuss...the only obnoxious thing being the "reciprocity" charge of US$160/each that we had to pay to get into the country. Its not a "visa" fee persay more of a "f-you" fee really; a response to the visa fee that Uncle Sam charges all Argentinian citizens who apply for visas to enter the US. The only good thing about it is the fee is good for 10 years...so we are good in that department for any f...