Restaurants were hard to come by; our NYE
meal was a sitting Chinese buffet – much to be desired! And we couldn’t exactly ‘Rock’ NYE.
Being back
in Buenos Aires filled me with a little dread, considering our first experience
resulted in the pickpocket of my beloved digital camera.
By foot took
to our hotel, the streets were surprisingly quiet. The streets were lined with
ripped paper due to the end of the financial year – apparently we missed the
accounts party as they tossed huge sums of paperwork from office buildings!
During our
Desyuno (breakfast) we discovered that New Years Eve being a Friday is a bank
holiday – so too the entire weekend. On the one hand we knew we would get the
peace we wanted, on the other – finding things to do proved a challenge.
Restaurants were hard to come by; our NYE meal was a Chinese buffet – much to
be desired! And we couldn’t
exactly ‘Rock’ NYE. The obelisk, at midnight
was pretty empty compared to any city crowd I’d ever seen for NYE celebrations.
A few home-managed fireworks, a couple of violent fights and it was all over by
12.20am.
We decided
to head to the Art Factory Hostel for a rooftop terrace NYE Party. Here we met
the familiar Maltese faces, Plum and Phyllis from Iguaçu. They, being Dakar fanatics,
were preparing for the next day and excitedly talked about the commencement of
the race the next afternoon, amongst their plans to head south by bus for over
20 hours to ice-covered Patagonia. We partied til dawn then headed back to the
hotel for a rest. http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Art-Factory/Buenos-Aires/23860?source=googleadwordshostelsbyname&gclid=CLXDkLGNu6gCFQoa4QodTktoBw
COSTS:
Breakfast in
Buenos Aires (for 2): AR$75
Hotel Orly:
USD$70 x 2
Cow hide
rug: AR$640
T-shirts
& Shorts: AR$440
You came in a difficult time because of the high season! It is much better if you book your activities in advance. i found a site www.bsas4u.com and book by myself for the same season with a nice results! Regards!
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