(by the way guys my comments are in pink.....Lesley)
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Alta Gracia "Residencia Jesuitica" We stopped here on our way back from the airport, we never waste a minute of our time together |
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Alta Gracia "Residencia Jesuitica" This place was also the last bus stop on our trip back from Buenos Aires, we had to be careful not to fall asleep or we would wind up here by mistake!! |
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Alta Gracia "Residencia Jesuitica" some very nice looking furniture from the old times. |  IMG_2062.JPG |
Alta Gracia "Residencia Jesuitica" Lesley inspecting the Potty, not very different to the ones in the England castles |
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Alta Gracia "Residencia Jesuitica" Potty, urinary section |  P5270077.JPG |
Alta Gracia "Residencia Jesuitica" Potty plans |
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Alta Gracia "Residencia Jesuitica" The biggest pair of bellows I have ever seen, in the blacksmith shop there. |
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Rio Tercero River |
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Rio Tercero River view of "Dique Piedras Moras" |  P5280085.JPG |
Rio Tercero River |
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Rio Tercero River isn't it a lovely place? Yes it is a lovely place, but kind of scary if it was to rain hard and these would all fill up with water really quick!!!! |
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Rio Tercero River Same here!!! |
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Santiago's BD This is Cris's Nephew lighting his birthday cake. |
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Santiago's BD Pics of Cris's mum are really hard to get :) she runs away from the camera. |
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Santiago's BD Good job its not a trick candle heheh |
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Santiago's BD No I promise these are not ours but Cristians little nephews, aren't they cute! Well they are our nephews, are yours too now as well..:) |
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Santiago's BD Oliver Twist! |
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View of El Durazno River |
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Camping La Florida (El Durazno River) |  P5300120.JPG |
Camping La Florida (El Durazno River) |
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Camping La Florida (El Durazno River) It took us hours to find a way down to the river but it was really worth it when we got there. |
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Camping La Florida (El Durazno River) view of the polluted water... |
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Camping La Florida (El Durazno River) |
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Camping La Florida (El Durazno River) Where does he find those pictures! Inside your camera??..:D |
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Camping La Florida (El Durazno River) a place where water doesn't come in bottles but in rivers |
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Camping La Florida (El Durazno River) |
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A "CHUÑA" a high mountain bird sounds something like shuneea, very hard to see birds, I have seen them twice in my life, and for some reason Lesley was there too in both oportunities |
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Well that is not a local specie, but was walking
on the street like she belonged there.. Poor thing was missing a few tail feathers (well all of them actually !!) |
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Buenos Aires President's House, "Casa Rosada" |
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Main Argentine bank HQ "Banco de la Nacion Argentina" | |
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El Cabildo, from here we decided we were going
to be a free country from the spanish kingdom Learning someones elses history feels very strange, but I did find some notes on a Scottish regiment inside the building!!!! The Scottish flag inside was from the time of the colony when the Scottish tried to invade us |
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A bit different than traditional Asado place,
WAS A CHINESE PLACE!! but they have asado as well |
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They had very tasty Morcillas (these are black puddings to me, but a bit too squashy to be as good as black puddings) |
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El Obelisco |  P6010187.JPG |
Avenida 9 de Julio, widest city street in the world |
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First Lesley's demonstration in Argentina, Buenos Aires is like demonstration land, they have them everyday... |  P6010190.JPG |
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Not a T-Rex, BIGGER, it is a Giganotosaurus, the biggest carnivore there is. |  P6010194.JPG |
Buenos Aires Zoo, Do I know you guys from
somewhere? This part of the zoo was really really smelly!!! |
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Mara or Liebre Patagonica, a southern Argentina
specie of hare We were so late in the zoo we nearly got locked in with all the animals! |
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Arquitecture in Buenos Aires is very special, sometimes you can see mixes between modern and antique |
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Landmark, we are in the right way to Recoleta |  P6030206.JPG |
Landmark to make me feel
at home :) There were like 7 of them in that area(right across the street from Cementerio Recoleta) she was wondering if that was the reason there are no more of them in england |
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There is a sign in this
park with these really interesting trees, it says that the park is maintained
by Macdonalds!!!!!! Yes, they are invading Argentina now, Les was surprised to find about 2 McDonalds per block, even more than in US |
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Ahhh!! how cute |
| Now some in Cementerio Recoleta, where the most important people of the Argentine history rest | |||
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hmm... looks like somebody from my wife's familly lived down here about 200 years ago... |  P6030216.JPG |
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Hey Cris my feet hurt, I have seen about a thousand gravestones today, lets go and get some pizza |  P6030221.JPG |
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Eva Peron (Evita) Pantheon the most famous Argentine woman in history rest here |  P6030228.JPG |
Eva Peron Pantheon |
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Not everything is what looks like, a good way to match it with the view | |
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Avenida 9 de Julio, the widest street in the
night Takes a very long time to cross it |
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