Day 352, 21 June 2013, Buenos Aires, Recoleta Market & Cemetery (... yes - these are on the MUST DO lists for BA!) We retraced our steps from our night time tour of Recoleta and took our time browsing shop windows. The Recoleta market took us both by surprise. We thought it would have the usual tourist tat (same same, but same), but almost every stall brought a new idea, a new style, a craft form we'd never seen. We discovered that Alpaca in Peru is a cut...

Day 351, 20 June 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hip, chic, hard to beat neighbourhood of Palermo... Soho and Hollywood districts and the market in Plaza Serrano. We took off today on the metro to Plaza Italia - luckily 3 metro lines start within 2 minutes walk of the hotel - so easy. We like easy. And with the BA metro did I mention it's cheap too - only $2.50 peso per trip each. That's US$0.50 cents. Wow. The neighbourhood of Palermo was busy in a relaxed k...

Day 350, 19 June 2013, Buenos Aires - Morning walking tour and evening "Aristocratic" tour with BA Free Walking Tours (www.bafreetour.com). For a great summary of many of the public buildings and monuments we saw on the tour google "Wiki Landmarks in Buenos Aires". Pictured is the Cabildo, the original centre of colonial government. It is pure white because it is repainted weekly - that is how bad the freedom of expression problem is in this teenage democracy ...

Day 349, 18 June 2013, Puerta Iguazu (Argentina) - to Buenos Aires (Don't Cry for Me,Argentina). Been looking forward to our BA time for a while now - 8 days in one place - chance for actual laundry to be done. One of the things we never realised before our adventure is how much we appreciate machine washing... hot soapy water, agitation, spin cycle... and then, to top it all off - a clothes dryer... At least that's what we're hoping for in BA! It's been a fun...

Day 348, 17 June 2013, Puerta Iguaza / Cataratas, Argentina. Finally - the Falls! Just for a change, the day dawned gray(er) and cloudy(er) - so cloudy in fact that the local cell tower was almost covered in mist. It was our last full day though, so off we went. Down the road, onto the local bus for the 20 km drive out to the falls. Despite it being a Monday, miserable and raining on and off, there were still crowds - tour groups by the dozen and a few indep...