Mendoza

From Buenos Aires I took a 14 hours busride to Mendoza, the 4th biggest city in Argentina. The town is situated by the feet of The Andes. 

In Mendoza I rentet a room through Airbb and I was so lucky I moved in to the sweetest couple in Mendoza.

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Milu and Leandro lives in a four rooms apartement in the center of town. She is a yoga teacher and he is working with theatre. We soon became good friends, shared the meals together and I got involved with the friends and family.

The huge area around town is famous for its fertile soil where the best grapes in Argentina are grown. There are many family-owned vineyards to visit. I went on a bike and winetasting tour together with other backpackers.

Together with Milus mother and her dogs.

Leandro directs plays for local theaters. He invited me to his last play: La Pancarta.

During the dictatorship in Argentina many tousand mothers got their babies stolen after they had given birth. The act is about this. Among the audience there were also two elderly men who had experienced the tyranny of the dictatorship. After the act one of them held a lecture for us. 

The play took place in the building that was used as a prison and torture chamber during the tyranny. 

I visited Los Penitentes, Uspallata and Puente del Inca (The Inca Bridge), a three hours busride from Mendoza, up in the Andes mountains. 

Puente del Inca is a natural arch formed as a bridge over the Vacas River. Puente del Inca is also the name of the hot springs you find here.

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The ferry from Colonia took only one hour and suddenly I was in Buenos Aires, the Paris of South-America!

I took the subway into Ricoletta wich is one of the most famous districts in town and where I had booked a bed in a dormitory.

Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and has a population of about 17 million. The country borders Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay , The Atlantic Ocean and Chile.

This is the memorial of the soldiers that lost their lives during the Falkland War in 1982.

The military dictatorship under General Leopoldo erupted and was in desperate need for popularity among the people. The General decided to take back the Falkland from the British. The Falkland War was the demise of the military dictatorship. 

There are dog walkers are around every corner and in the parks. They are with groups of six to ten pets. The owners are rich and need someone to walk their dogs while they are at work. 

At Muceo Nacional de Bella Artes i found many paintings of famous artists: 

Goya, El Greco, Renoir, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, Cezanna, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, Rubens and many more.

I also enjoyed an exebition of two Argentinian arists: Xul Solar and Lucio Fontana.

Sunday marked in San Telmo, the oldest district in 

Buenos Aires.

Visiting one of many vinyl record stores in San Telmo.

In Pulperia Quilapan you can read poems to an audience.

I lived just three blocks from the Recoleta Cementary, where Eva Peron is berried.

The chuchyard itselves is worth a visit.