Wow, four days straight in the bus....we did some calculations, and it ended up being about seventy hours to get from Cusco to Buenos Aires. Because direct buses only go between large cities, we decided to split our trip up and travel from town to town. We left Cusco friday evening, taking the first of our bus rides to Tacna (arriving the next morning), which is a small border town in Peru. We crossed the border the same day and got our next bus to a beach town in Chile called La Serena. We stayed there for a night and two days. It was the first day we experienced hot, sunny beach weather since we left Lima. The town was really cute, but there was not much going on. The next day we took a night bus from La Serena to Mendoza Argentina, arriving the next morning. We stayed in Mendoza (wine county) for about six hours...we were abe to walk around and see the city. The city was really nice, and clean...there were a lot of large city squares and parks, and we were able to lay and relax and take in some sun.
Finally, our last bus ride from Mendoza to Buenos Aires. This was another over night bus. We arrived in BA the following morning where we took a cab to the hostel that we had reserved. We stayed in BA for two nights. Our hostel was really nice, probably the nicest that we had stayed in so far...although it was the first time that we got a shared dorm room. Ruby and I met our friend from back home, Ilie at the hostel who we were going to spend some of our trip with. Ilie had already spent some time in BA a couple years ago, so he told us about the main things that we should go and visit. We went to see the famous, and gigantic cemetery. It was massive, every tomb stone was as tall as a building, the cemetery was set up like a small town...we didn´t even have enough time to explore the whole thing, but we did make sure to make it to view Evita´s grave. BA was huge, we didn´t nearly even see the whole city. I liked it though, although I don´t think I would want to live somewhere so noisy and busy!
BA is the first place that we went out and experienced the famous Discotecas of South America. We went to a discoteca thursday night and danced until six in the morning! It was a lot of fun experiencing this because I am used to all of the bars closing at two in Oregon...and people don´t even go to the discotecas until two. It wore us out though, and the next day we started our journey to Uruguay where we spent a couple weeks at lazy beach towns.
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