TyskJohan’s random thoughts

After 5 hours of driving from Johannesburg, past places marked as “hi-jacking hotspots” and a lot of sights we didn’t know (Bourke’s Luck, The Three Rondavels and lots more) we arrived at the gates of the Balule Nature Reserve, where the Drifters Game Lodge, our accomodation for the next two days, is located.

After the flight to Johannesburg via São Paulo, we had to sleep in for a while. In the afternoon, we did a tour to Soweto and got to see an informal settlement, as well as seeing “the Beverly Hills of Soweto”, Nelson Mandela’s house and the Soweto memorial.

In the evening, the innkeeper took us along for dinner at a shopping mall in the well-to-do suburb of Johannesburg where the inn was. “I’ve never seen a European order the large portion of Spare Ribs”

Before we left Buenos Aires, we took another tango lesson. This was a private lesson, just the two of us and the teacher. And Olga to take the pictures, of course! We started at 9 pm and were pretty exhausted afterwards. But not too exhausted to have Bife de Chorizo at Desnivel afterwards

Yesterday we went on another day trip, to Tigre. It’s an archipelago in the Delta north of Buenos Aires, with fancy boat clubs and week-end mansions, as well as fruit farms and lots more… which we didn’t manage to see because we overslept. The bar in our hostel was open until 5 am and it was quite noisy. Also, unfortunately I can out of batteries for the digital camera while we were on the boat trip…

Lene managed to convince me: when in Buenos Aires, you can’t not dance tango… Read on for some pictures…

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To dance tango, we obviously needed new shoes. You can’t dance tango in the sneakers and sandals we’d packed… And shoes in Argentina are amazingly cheap!

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Yesterday we went on a day trip to Colonia in Uruguay, a three-hour boat trip across the River Plate. Quite a change from the bustle of Buenos Aires, and very relaxing—except for a stressful moment when we didn’t have money for the departure tax and I had to run back from the boat terminal into town to withdraw 100 UR$ (about 3 EUR).