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Buenos Aires!! BTW ignore the photo, that is not Buenos Aires.
It was about a month ago that I was in Buenos Aires, but anyway, here's what I got up to:
San Telmo antiques market. Here we stumbled upon the market's birthday party and so there were loads of people in fancy dress dancing in the streets with a band playing. It was brilliant! We danced away in th sunshine with all the crazy people.
Recolleta cemetery. I was in no way expecting this to be as incredibly impressive as it was. The tombs were huge! Some were the size of small houses, although they looked more like small churches. There was row upon row of them. We found Evita's grave, which was rather understated compared to others there, although was still towering above us. I'll post pictures as this place is hard to describe.
La Bombe, a live drum show. This was so much fun. We were there with all the locals watching the drum band who would play for about 20mins straight per song before all swapping instruments. It was really cool.
The Zoo!! For Jen's birthday we went to BA zoo and saw lots of the animals. My favourite was a penguin who I named 'retarded'. While all the other penguins were swimming and diving about he was flapping about on the surface and going around in circles. I watched him for about 10mins or so because I couldn't stop laughing. The others had to tell me it was time to move on.
Tango show at Tortoni. This was so worth doing. The tango is incredible! They are just so fast. Much better than Strictly. Two of the male dancers also performed with Poi (balls on the end of string) and were beating them on the floor as they span them to create the beat whilst they danced at the same time. Pretty impressive.
Club 69. On a Thursday night one of the clubs has this night where there is a sort of drag show. We were greated at the door by two massive blokes in drag. It was so funny. They generally gyrated on stage alot and there was a moving pole on a platform that moved around the dancefloor that they all danced on. The whole thing was pretty surreal. Then some breakdancers came on stage and had a competition. Buenos Aires is definately a crazy and fun city.
Other than that we went out quite a lot, although not until 2am when the parties start and did some shopping. It was a really fun city and possibly my favourite in South America!
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