Well we are all packed and ready to fly back home tomorrow. We have been in Buenos Aires for 3 days since arriving from Iguazu falls on Friday.

We where met at the airport by our lovely guide Monica. So full of information and bright and bubbly. Just going from the airport to our hotel 'downtown' she told us a lot. Buenos Aires is a beautiful, cosmopolitan and energetic port city. It stretches south to north along the River Plate. If you like New York with it's hussle and bussle you will not mind it here. It's very similar with many large citys from around the world. The lifestyle and architecture is mostly European and it's often referred to as the "Paris of the South". Monica helps us get our bearings while driving by showning us where we are on a city map. We are just a few blocks down from the main monument ...the Oblisic. You can't miss it and it therefore makes it very easy to always find our way back to our hotel.

After settling in at the hotel we go out into the cold "yep it's pretty cold here" to look for dinner. We eat only a few places down at a beautiful old pizza place. Pizza was brilliant & gourmet with a nice beer to wash it down.

Next morning a lazy start to the day as our city tour starts at 11am. The tour takes about 3 hours and is mostly by car but you see heaps. They have amazing parks, wide avenues and intricate monuments. We visit the eclectic neighbourhood of La Boca with it's very colourful shops and houses. A street fair always on the go. Past the portside district of Puerto Madero where waterfront apartments can cost upwards of $250,000 and actually don't look like they should do...

Our last stop is to the famous Recoleta Cemetery where Eva Peron one of just many famous people is buried. This place is amazing and I'm sure we have nothing like it in Aust. This is not a traditional cemetery. It has crypts and huge elaborate mausoleums. I took heaps of pic's here and we could have easily spent 2 hours just wandering around. In the short time we were there we saw only a few of the many family crypts that are no longer cared for because either no money or family left to do so. These have long ago been damaged and you can see the coffins inside. Alot of them go down into the ground by at least 8 metres. With coffin upon coffin stacked in. A very interesting place indeed. We spent the rest of the afternoon walking around the cobbled streets and markets.

Ok next bit is a warning for all you future travellers out there.... While walking through one of the parks on the way back to the hotel we thought we had been pooed on by birds. But it was a distraction .... we had actually been sprayed with what looked like bird poo but wasnt. Suddenly there was a well dressed man and women to help clean us up. Luckily we both though something was up after a few minutes and because of the way we keep our bags and backpacks they had no luck in getting anything out of either and nothing from our pockets. So we where very lucky people and didn't have anything taken. We had to ask the hotel for cleaning stuff to clean up our clothes etc but the Novotel are great. They took us down to the laundry part and helped us to cleanup the mess on my jacket and jeans and Ray's top and all over the back pack. They said it happens to even the locals. For all our travels all over the world this is the first time we have come close to being robbed. We have been told by many people during our travels about them being robbed so glad we have always been that bit extra cautious. We have even heard how they can take out your credit cards from your wallet or purse and then put the wallet/purse back in your pocket and you don't know until you go looking for your cards!!! scary huh. Anywho we didn't let it spoil what we think of this great city!!

Last night we went to a dinner and Tango show. By the time we were picked up and actually started eating dinner is was about 9.30pm, so we ate pretty late. The show was great and the food and wine pretty good to. We sat next to another couple from Melbourne. And they still had about 2 weeks or more to go on their Sth American trip. We didn't get back to the hotel till after 12pm and the road outside our hotel is basically the main drag and being Saturday night it was busy all night.

After a late breakfast/lunch we once again hit the streets. It was only 9c while we where out walking today, freezing.....but this is our last day and wanted to make the most of it and see as much as possible. We decided to go to the Market that Monica had suggested we see. Well it was the longest street market we have ever seen. We must have walked for at least 2.5 klms..... and we didn't even get to the end, apparently it goes for over 5!! We had seen enough but it was great. After walking around for about 5 or more hours we decided it was time for feet up for a bit of rest. Had dinner and went back out for only about an hour for last minute shopping.

So that is .... the end of our South American adventure. It's been a blast and I think I will probably do one more blog after we have been home for a few days...by then I can look back and hopefully sum up our journey more fully. So until then xxxx to all....