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Buenos Aires was very different to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro and we loved it! We stayed in a hostel called America Del Sur for a few nights which was very clean but noisy at night and for 6 nights we stayed at the new Milhouse Hostel, which was again very nice but could be noisy until the early hours.
We took a day trip one day around the city where we got to see the Government house where Evita and Juan Peron used to stand on the balcony and speak to the public. It was also the same balcony Madonna was on in the film Evita. We also got to go to Cementaria de la Recoleta, where Evita´s grave was. The cemetery was an amazing place with huge mausiliums with many important Porteños (people of Buenos Aires) were buried. The cemetery was also huge and was impossible to see all of the graves and there were so many amazing ones that we took photos of, that we had to delete some to make room on the camera!
On the same tour we were also taken to the main Cathedral was, which housed the remains of someone important to the city, but who it was escapes us both now! It was pretty amazing though as there were two guards at the door and the mausilium itself was massive. Pictures from BA will soon be on Facebook, but we are having problems getting the computers in Ecuador (where we are now) to find the camera to download them!
One evening we went out to the old Milhouse where they were hosting a party. We met a group of people also from England who were staying in our hostel, the new Milhouse, so we had a few drinks with them and tagged along to the other hostel. It was a good night, albeit very drunken! The place the party was held reminded us very much of a school disco! It was a pretty small area, dark and dingy, crammed with lots of very young people! We got lost on the way back to our hostel, even though it is pretty much just over the road! Our excuse is that it is the widest road in BA (and maybe the world!) with 18 lanes in total!! You cannot cross it in one go!
Another evening we decided to go out ourselves to find some gay bars and went off the direction of a Lonely Planet book. We arrived at a place which had around 10 people in at first but it soon got busy as there was a drag show on that evening. The place ended up really crowded and we got talking to a group of guys from Buenos Aires and one from Sao Paulo and ended up all going clubbing together. Again another very good but very drunken evening!
All in all we loved Buenos Aires and wish we had more time to travel around Argentina. Definately a place we would return to.
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