The beginning

After a time that seemed like years we finally met outside the Buenos Aires airport. We couldn't really realize that our year of travelling had just begun.

Our hostel was located in the district of San Telmo, which is probably the most laid back area of the city. It's full of markets, art, little cafes, noisy streets, paintings on the building walls and music everywhere. Only sunday markets in San Telmo can keep you busy all day.

Buenos Aires felt like the perfect starting place for our travels. It was not too dramatically different to home, being a big, modern city, but you definitely get the feeling of being absolutely somewhere else.

We spent one day exploring the impressive Recoleta cemetery and the market in a park right next to it. We tried to do some shopping too in Florida street, too bad it happened to be a public holiday, 1st of May. In Palermo we spent most of the day in the zoo wondering what kind of crazy creatures we were feeding. Rest of the day we spent relaxing and sunbathing in the huge green parks of Palermo.

 

In Buenos Aires we fell in love with empanadas. For lunch. For dinner. Anytime. Cheap, good and easy.

After five days we thought we had seen enough people and decided to catch a ferry to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, a small, quiet town just a few hours away.