Travel Log of a Quasi-Brave Explorer: last days in argentina

The last few days of our trip to Argentina have been a bit more eventful, I´m not sure why. Wednesday Laila and I got up "early" to go to the famous cemetary in Recoleta, leaving Sarah behind because she doesn´t like dead people, who knows why not. It was a really good thing she didn´t come because it was SUPER-creepy, though also really beautiful. The whole cemetary is made up of ornate marble mausoleums, mostly really old. Often there is a small door leading into a chamber with and alter and some personal items and a couple coffins. Then there is a small opening in the floor and a spiral staircase leading down to a vault with tons of coffins. A lot of the mausoleums are in pretty bad shape, so they have cracked glass, broken marble all over the floor, and spider webs all over the place. Basically, straight out of a horror movie, except in broad daylight (thank the lord). I thought it was awesome, apparently I have this whole dark side I never knew I had, or something.

That day we also hung out in the botanical gardens for awhile, which were basically a gorgeous haven for stray cats. The cats were literally everywhere, but were pretty accustomed to humans because they totally let us mess with them.

Thursday we were supposed to wake up early to explore more, but early turned into 12, and then we had to spend a lot of time rectifying a plane ticket situation that Laila was in, during which I got to argue with the agency in Spanish. It was fun. We tried to go biking in the nature preserve but it was a bit too late, so we ended up wandering around the central commercial/shopping area. The highlight of this was some little boy peed on Sarah outside of a McDonald´s we were blatantly using for their bathroom.

That night we ventured to this sweet bar that wasn´t very happening because it was still pretty early (2 am). It was in an old mansion with 4 floors and an outdoor garden. It felt like going to a really really fancy house party, and made me wish I lived here so I could make it my hangout spot.

Today (Friday) was our last day in BA and we mainly spent it doing business-type stuff unfortunately, plus another trip to the botanical gardens. Basically not much to tell. Tonight Sarah and I fly to Lima, then fly to Iquitos tomorrow morning to explore the Amazon!