Thursday, November 27, 2008

Cordoba, Rosario, Carlos Paz

Last week I went on about a week and a half adventure around the central part of Argentina with Miarana. I decided not to go to Iguzau falls because it is far and a lot of money. Insted I decided to go to Cordoba and Rosario. I have been wanting to go camping for a while and from what I read these are two great places. In Rosario our train was cancled because of a strike. That was a dissapointment. We took a bus insted. The first day in Rosario we went camping on the River Islands. The place was pretty cool. You had to take a boat out there. There are beaches with sand and plenty of places to camp. The first night was windy and cold. We had a group of pigs wonder around the tent all night. We decided to leave after one day because they were not sending any more boats for a few days and it was cold. When we got back to town there was a huge multicultural fair all weekend. I bought some cool gifts and ate some different food. Overall I would say Rosario was a kinda a bummer. The town wasn..t as cool as advertised but it was fun thanks to the festival.Cordoba - Cordoba was the exact oppsite as Rosario. Cordoba was so cool and chill. There were loads of things to do. I liked Cordoba more than Buenos Aires. There isn..t as much noise, everything is calmer than the capital, and you still have access to everything that there is in Buenos Aires. I wish I would have gone here sooner. After a couple of days we decided to end the trip by camping in a smaller resort town called Carlos Paz.Carlos Paz - This is a little town that kids graduating for middle school go to celebrate. The whole time there you could see groups of ¨engresados¨ laughing it up and having a good time. I felt really happy to see all the celebrations because this doen..t really exist for middle schoolers in the U.S. Miarana told me that Carlos Paz for middle schoolers is like Bariloche for highschoolers. The camping was good - not really roughing it. There was a pool and all kinds of thing to do on the campgroud. It was more like a scaled down theme park with camping. I had fun. After all the adventre we came back to Buenos Aires. I can..t wait to get back to the U.S. and then to New York.

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