Argentina!!!!!!

Buenos Dias Everybody!

So this is the first post on our blog after almost two weeks away! The budget has been blown and we are coming home.....not really, but the budget is blown. Argentina is EXPENSIVO.

So our first stop on our travels was Buenos Aires! We were only there for a couple of days as it was quite like a lot of European cities so we decided our time would be better spent in other places.....plus the fact that we were staying in a WEIRD hostel with no air con, plastic matresses and people who NEVER left the hostel. The 3 days we were there we walked probably the equivalent of 2 marathons around the city in the blistering heat and felt like we were going to die....We saw a lot of the city by walking around which was good and our favourite place was ¨La Boca¨. It was this really cool area of the city where the Italian immigrants settled. It was a ship yard and they made all their houses out of zinc and wood and painted them amazingly bright colours with the left over paint from the ships. The buildings were all really bright and this seemed to be where most the street tango took place!  After getting over some pretty hilarious language blunders we booked an overnight coach from BA up to Iguazu Falls!!

Our hostel in Iguazu was amazing...it was just out of the town and had a MASSIVE pool!! We decided to stay here for 4 nights, chill out and take advantage of the pool and visit the falls. There were 2 big power cuts when we were there that lasted about 10 hours each....nae ideal when we had just decided to buy food to cook ourselves to save money....We had to pay for their rubbish pizza party and then when the power went off again the next evening so we took the ¨all you can eat¨ literally to make up for our food that had gone bad. Whilst we were there we were sat outside when this huge thunderstorm happened....we took shelter and it lasted for absolutely ages!!

We went to the falls the day before we were due to leave Iguazu they were AMAZING!!!! Our first stop at the falls was the Devils Throat which was where 14 different wateralls converged. The power of the falls was incredible, there is absolutely no way anyone would survive going over it. We were told a story about when the falls first opened to tourists they used to take boats to the top of the Devils Throat and row as hard as they could in the opposite direction to stop boats going over...all in the name of a good view over the falls. Obviously the inevitable happened and a boat of germans went over....none survived. So now they have walkways....sounds a lot safe but there was one which had been completely destroyed by a flood on the river.

A couple of hours after we got there it started chucking it down....like you have NEVER seen before, it was proper rainforest styley!!! The raindrops were the size of 5 pence pieces and we got absolutely drenched....we tried to make a run for it but got even more drenched  so we sheltered under a tree for a bit until it passed!! Then we went on a boat ride where they drove us under three different waterfalls so we got soaked again!! it was amazing though and so much fun!! The falls were the best thing on the trip so far and it will take a lot to beat them.

Our next stop was Salta....Which we will be leaving tonight. It is a little town in the north of Arg. It´s really pretty and quite small. So we have just been doing our usual and wandering around for the last couple of days. The hostel here is really nice....ran by a family that have a massive dog and a tortoise that I (Vix) almost tripped over this morning!!

Tonight we are off to Bolivia so we shall keep you updated of all our adventures up there!!

Adios

Vix and Han xx