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