It`s curry for tea in Argentina!

Well as Matt has already told you we are in The Capital City of Argentina and it is HUGE! I have never been to a city this BIG before, I can`t even begin to tell you the scale of it. Put it this way, New York is big but is like a piece dropped off Buenos Aires. It really is a fun and friendly place, and like any Capital City is non stop hustle and bustle. The price of things is also relatively cheap too, we are staying in a hotel in downtown BA and it is costing us $30 a night, I don`t think you could rent a cardboard box for the night in London for $30. When we stayed in NY in May we were paying $100 a night, and that was with a shared bathroom, and it was a right shithole!

So Matt told you we`d being splashing out a bit on flight`s and then the Lonely Planet for Argentina, well let me tell you what prompted him to buy the LP Guide. It was the fact that there were 3 different restaurant's listed that served curry dishes (2x Thai, 1 x Indian) we bought the book yesterday and already we have visited 2 of the 3. The book may well have only cost us $32, but the money we have spent in these restaurants makes it an expensive book!!! We have had curry withdrawal though and we both agree that it`s money well spent!

Tomorrow we are back on the bus for probably our longest ride yet, it`s 17 hours!! We are going "up North" to the Argentinian/Brazilian border to see the Iguazu Falls, we will spend a few days there before deciding on our route back to BA (which is where we fly from to go to NZ) Argentina is a massive country and we now have less than 3 weeks to take in and see what we want, so were in for a busy time on the public transport unfortunately. Were still not sure on our priorities after the falls, we had plans to hop across to Brazil, and maybe even spend a couple of days in Uruguay but I think we were being a little bit optimistic.

Argentinian steak is apparently the best in the world, it`s not the kind of thing I can get excited about I`m afraid. We did have a great pizza the 1st night we arrived in BA, after a mammoth walk trying to (unsuccessfully) get our bearings and find somewhere to eat, we threw ourselves into the nearest/next restaurant we could find. As soon as we sat down Matt said "shall we just get up and go" it was just one of those places that doesn`t quite fit the bill if you know what I mean?! Anyway we decided to sit it out and we`re glad we did, as the pizza was superb and so was the bottle of red wine we drank (2.00GBP)

Since we left Bolivia we have experienced a whole new South America, Chile and Argentina are by far more richer than the other 3 countries we have visited on this continent, although it doesn't make them anymore enjoyable to visit. I didn`t fall in love with Chile or the Chileans, they take themselves far too seriously and think far too much of themselves, but as I`ve mentioned before (lots of times) the Bolivians are the warmest people we have met so far in a country where nobody has anything.

Stew and Kirsty are now on their mini RTW trip, spending 3 days in Singapore (where Stew was struggling with the humidity apparently) then to Oz (where they should have arrived today) for 2.5 weeks before flying back via LA for 3 nights. My dad has just emailed me to say he can`t keep track of us all and the different time zones. I wish we could have planned our trip so that we could have met up with them at some point but it just wasn`t geographically possible. Stew will leave Oz about 3 days before we arrive in NZ :-(

Matt has posted the few pics that we took in Chile and also there`s a few we have taken in BA.. enjoy.