Puerto de Iguazu

On Sunday we left Buenos Aires and went up to the Iguazu falls in north of Argentina. The falls are in the triangle of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Instead of a 18 hours bus trip we took the 1 hour flight from Buenos Aires. After the check in at the hotel we went down to the port. For tomorrow we booked the tour through the national park. Hope to shoot some nice fotos.

Left side Argentina, in the middel Paraguay and on the right site Brazil

Me and Nicole at Puerto Iguazu

Buenos Aires

Finally on Friday my friend arrived and we made a long city tour through Puerto Madero and San Telmo.

Me at the Plaza Aleman

Puerto Madero
Niki at the Puerto Madero

La Bombonera

Montevideo

Next day I went by bus the capital of Uruguay: Montevideo. It is only a two hours bus ride. I did not like the city at all. It was just to busy and dirty. Also it was raining all day so I stayed at the hotel. Best was the steak at the Mecardo del puerto. For 400 gr. of best steak I only paid
7 €. After one day I went back to Colononia and tomorrow Iwill go back to BA for a football game at the Bombonera.

City center of Montevideo

City center of Montevideo

Mhhh best steak from the grill

Colonia de Sacamento

On Monday I went for three days by Ferry to Uruguay. My first stop was Colonia de Sacramento which is a small town on the Rio de la plata just on the other side of BA. The old part of the town from the 17th century is very nice and rebuild and has a lot of small museums and restaurants.

Small restaurants in Colonia

Rio de la plata

KIKE at the rio de la plata

Rebuild historical town of Colonia

Football in Buenos Aires

On the first weekend I watched three games. First game on Friday was Racing vs. Colon followed by the game Argentinios Jrs. vs. Banfield. On Sunday I visited the game River Plate vs. Chacarita in the Monumental stadium. The first two games were a bit boring becaus we saw only a 1:1 draw. But the atmosphere was just great a lot of singing, jumping ansd some fire works. The third game ended 4:3 and we saw some great goales. I booked the games with a travel agency and had always a guide (Santiago) on my side how explained a lot about the teams and stadiums.

Chacarita away supporters

Kike in the Monumental

La Barra de River
Santiago the guide and KIKE

The Monumental stadium with the good old wodden banks

Racing stadium

Rote Kurve is also there

Crowed of 25.000 attended to the game which finally ended 1:1

Diego Armando Maradona Stadium

Supporters of Argentions Jrs.

Thats Kike

La Banda de Banfield

A lot of jumping in the Banfield block

Puerto Madero

The old harbour from Buenos Aires was reconstructed and is now the place to be. I I had a good lunch next to the sea side just next to the rio de la plata. Normally the wether should be rainy and cold but when I arrived to BA it was just sunny and warm.

La Boca

On the guided city to we also passed the famous imigrant neighborhood "La Boca" with
even more famous stadium "La Bombonera".
The houses were only painted for the tourist next to them you have the regular slums. When we visited all those sights I was very happy that a guide was next to me and that the safe drive home was already organized.

The photo says it all "Welcome to la Boca"

Shop in la Boca

KIKE and Diego

House next to the Bombonera stadium

Kike in La Boca

Buenos Aires

So there I am in the country of my dreams. My first days in Argentina I a spent with sight seeing, football and lots of party.

The famous obelisc

Kike in the city center

Transport 2

Bikes are normaly used for transport

Truck in New Delhi

Trip to Taj Mahal

During the weekend we made a trip to the famous Thj Mahal which is 200KM away from
New Delhi. Our ride took around 4-5 hours for one direction. There was a lot of traffic and
no ending bumps on the "new highway". Traffic is unbelievable busy in India. For me it seems that there are no rules at all so it is not a big surprise that it took us so long

The Thaj was bulid around 1631 built by Mugul Emperor Shan Jahan in memory of his favorite wife which had born him 14 children and than died. Further info at wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal)

I have never seen so much scrap on the streets. This seems to be normal in India.

People standing with their trained monkeys at the road waiting for visitiors and their money

That there are a lot of cows on the street is not a lie

You can find so many differen types of cow!!

After arriving to the Oberoi hotel Agra, we stayed at the Oberoi in New Delhi,
we used teh free shuttle to get to Taj

Entrance hall to the Taj

Perfect frame for the Taj

Bad luck with the weather. It was raining all day. This humidity was killing me.

Taj in the fog

Kike and the Taj

Kike and his colleague in front of the Taj

The Taj and its garden

The Taj from the side

The high polluted Yamuna river passing the Taj

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Kids searching for trash which they are going to sell afterwards

Proud Thaj

Fishing for trash. I have never seen two extrems so near by.

Thaj´s garden

Booth on teh street to New Delhi

Where ever you look: You see WASTE!!

People sitting in the rain.

All in all it was a very nice trip but this seeing on one side the Taj and on the other side the kids
fishing for waste in the river just showed the real world.