After about 20 hours in and around airplanes, we at last arrived in Buenos Aires. We checked in to our cozy little apartment on the seventh floor, then headed out for some lunch and found a nice place that baked their own bread. We spent the day strolling through the city, exploring interesting Graffitis, being awed by amazing architecture and crammed into the super busy subway. We also had dinner at a steak house called Madagascar (we should have gotten suspicious then) where I likely had the worst beef ribs of my life. I probably returned about 90% of the “meat”, which probably says enough. Kata’s Cesar salad was apparently the better choice… We’ll give Argentinian steak another try soon, let’s see!

Today we are taking the train up to Tigre along the Lujan river to explore the region a bit more closely and tomorrow we’ll head out towards Patagonia and will fly to the town of Trelew, just south of the nature reserve on the Peninsula Valdes where we are supposed to find penguins, seals and, if we are lucky, whales.