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    Buenos Aires Part II

    November 18, 2023 in Argentina ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    Our final big adventure was over, and hell we were tired both physically and psychologically (who can blame us 😉), so what’s a better place to go than our home away from home? 🥰 This time, though, we made the big mistake to not only book a hostel, but also to only check the prices in Argentinian Pesos on booking.com in advance, thinking that the (ridiculous!) amount of USD charged for the double room must be because the app uses the official exchange rate and that the hostel surely would not do that - well, we were wrong 😅 So instead of our gorgeous AirBnB from our first time in Buenos Aires we were now stuck in a shitty hostel with a prison cell-like double room in front if the shared kitchen and bathroom for whooping 60 USD a night 😂 Our only consolidation was that it will only be for three nights!
    Luckily, Buenos Aires is full of attractions and things to do, so even though we’ve already spent 6 days here before, we still had a good time avoiding the hostel and enjoying the city life - and we loved it as much as the first time ❤️ The area was a slightly different one (Palermo Soho instead of ‘classic’ Palermo) and - as a funny coincidence - we found a Patagonia brewery stall in falling-over distance of our hostel 😍 Also, by exploring the new neighbourhood we discovered that there is a very lively (and lovely!) viaduct in the city which we never heard or read about?! And as a bonus, it directly leads you to the big-ass park area which sports a japanese garden, a botanic garden AND a rose garden, all of them beautifully made and with little lakes inside. As one of these was on our to-do list anyways, we had a long walk with beautiful views of the viaduct and enjoyed the rose garden. We also visited the Recoletta Cemetery, a well-known and highly recommended attraction in Buenos Aires, and we LOVED IT!! Never have we seen so much old money and decadence in one place before! 😂 But it was also so much fun to see the completely different architectural styles and to discover all the details the rich felt necessary to include in their mausoleums - some new, some super old and in various states of decay.
    As a last activity we grabbed our friend Ninon who we met on the Salkantay trek and went to explore the various sunday markets in town (finally some souvenir shopping 😍) and showed her the San Telmo Food Market. Safe to say she loved it as much as we did 🥰
    And before we knew, it was already time to leave our expensive little prison room to have a quick detour to yet another country: Uruguay, here we come!    Read more

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    Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

    November 20, 2023 in Uruguay ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    And just like that, we’re in country number 12 😱 And the only thing it took us was 1 hour on a ferry from Buenos Aires! Unfortunatley, we did not manage to get to see Gilles friend who lives in Uruguay at the Rio Plata (farm life sounds hard ☹️), but we were still quite happy to be in Colonia: What a picturesque little old town (hi cobblestone streets, it’s been a while!!) 😍 Even though we had initially planned to stay only one night, we noticed very soon that two nights will suit us much better so we can enjoy one evening to the fullest and explore the ruins of the old ford and the old streets and buildings the day after. By pure coincidence, we even run into Cédric again, a guy who was in our group in the Ecuadorian Amazon Jungle and had never crossed our path again until now!
    Many gorgeous pictures, many mosquitobites (right through the jeans!! 😭), two amazing sunsets and a much money later (it is not a joke when people say Uruguay has german prices…) we’ve had enough of the little town and decided that it is now - very much to Alinas excitement - time for a BEACH!! 🤩 So we decided that we will once again travel 6.5 hours by bus to our sleepy little uruguaian beach town of choice to indulge ourselves on the only proper beach schedule there is: relaxing in the sun with a book in our hands and the sound of waves in our ears 🌴 ☀️    Read more

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    Punta del Diablo

    November 23, 2023 in Uruguay ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    After our long journey with a short stopover in Montevideo, we arrived at our little bungalow in the sleepy village of Punta del Diablo. The bungalow offered everything we needed for our little beach holidays: a fully equipped kitchen, a little balcony with chairs and a hammock, ocean views and a beach in walking distance 🥰 Not to mention the pack of dogs who frequently visited and joined us on said balcony (and many walks we took) ❤️
    Even though the sky was as blue as its gets and you could feel the sun hitting hard, it was definitely too cold for Alina to go swimming (but not for Gilles, of course) - nasty icy winds definitely required us to cover up most of the times 🥶. But we were still able to refresh our tans which was the main reason we’re here, no?! 😉
    As it was still low season, there was not much going on and many restaurants were closed, but we were not too disappointed about it regarding the price-quality ratio we’ve experienced in Uruguay so far. Additionally, this allowed us to further prepare for our life back in Swizzy by cooking our own meals again - a thing we really missed and highly enjoyed, including the cleaning up afterwards! Who would have thought travelling long-term makes you miss cleaning?! 😂 We really enjoyed the quiet days at the beaches and at our bungalow, but there was a big BUT: mosquitos. As quiet and absent as these little bastards were during the day as active and numerous did they become around 2 am (with astonishing punctuality, btw) and without a mosquito net we were helplessly at their mercy 😢 Thus, while they probably had the time of their very short lifes, we had the most unrelaxing and sleepless nights of our whole trip so far 🥲 On the plus side of it, thanks to these little shits we saw the beautiful sunrise over the ocean more than once during our stay and we were now very much looking forward to our (very last! 😭) 6.5 hour bus-and-ferry journey back to Buenos Aires because we knew we could finally get some sleep then 😂
    Despite the mosquitos we would still recommend Punta del Diablo as the beaches are beautiful and the little village vibe is very relaxing (during low season at least) - just make sure you have a mosquito net 😂    Read more

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    Buenos Aires Part III - The End 🥲

    November 26, 2023 in Argentina ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    After our sleepless nights in Uruguay we were EVEN MORE looking forward to our third (and very last 😭😭😭) time in Buenos Aires. This time, we were again in a different area called Villa Crespo, which is not as full with entertainment and as busy as Palermo, but was exactly the perfect mixture for us! The Airbnb was perfect, spaceous, fully equipped and with a balcony, the weather was superb (three days of 30 degrees and above! 🥵) and as we knew our way around the city already we simply enjoyed visiting some of our favorite places again, doing some shopping (finally 🥰) and - again - doing a lot of cooking and cleaning! And finally, after the most beautiful sunset in Buenos Aires on our last evening, the day had come where our 9-month trip ended with a 12.5 hour flight to Barcelona, a 2-hour stopover and another 2 hour flight back home - to say we had very mixed feelings about coming home is an understatement for sure 😅 But in the end, we concluded that we’ve been away for long enough - time to come home to you guys again 🥰❤️Read more

    Trip end
    November 30, 2023