Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Would you like an alpaca empanandas with your nipple tassels?

And so the BBQ, too much meat, some disgusting spirit and alot of flailing nipple tassels, not your normal saturday night! Our BBQ ticket included a brazilian show after everyone had finished eating, to start with it was one man with a tambourine and a bright green silk shirt dancing round the room trying to get people to join in. We were all slightly confused but clapped along... then came the dancers, in true brazilian style they were wearing tiny fringed thongs and nipple tassels that came to the waist. Men were dragged up to dance with them and there wasnt much complaining, despite the fact we spent most of the night deliberating as to whether one of them was a man, we are still not sure. The night ended with all of us being dragged up to dance, we were all paired up and had to follow a routine set by the guy in the shiny shirt and a girl from the hostel.
The next day it was raining so we spent most of the day at the hostel playing table tennis and watching films. In the afternoon we decided to cross the border into brasil as its only a 20min bus ride to the border. The bus drops you off at the border but drives off while you are going through passport control. The distance between the borders of Argentina and Brasil is about 8km and as the bus had gone we decided to walk it, this lasted about half an hour before we decided to flag down the next bus that passed and head back into Argentina. The people at passport control were slightly confused as to why we had only spent half an hour in their country. We got the bus to Cordoba on Monday, a 22 hour journey which wasn´t too bad. There was a storm that lasted most of the night with lightning that lit up the whole sky and torrential rain. The journey was mainly on one road, really long and straight that took us right into Cordoba. We arrived about 12 on Tuesday and walked around trying to find a hostel reccomended to us by people who had just come from here, its actually really nice, clean and the people are friendly but its quite quiet. We are in a dorm for 6 with only the two of us in it. Yesterday we bought empanandas from a tiny little shop with about 20 varieties including alpaca, we are still yet to try that one...

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