Buenos Aires Zoo

This morning, we woke up early, thinking that we had to vacate the room, and move to another hostel. We had gone looking last night for other hostels, but it was quite late (2am) and no one wanted to give us a reservation. I suppose it worked out quite well, though, because it turns out that we didn't have to change hostels. We now have a reservation for another three days here.

Once that was all sorted out, we went to the zoo. People had told us about how nice it was, so we decided to try it. Overall, I'd say it was ok. Nothing special, but a nice relaxing day. There were all the standard animals, such as lions, tigers, elephants, etc. but when you come in, there are otters, and wild birds roaming the area. It's quite nice to see that not all of the animals are being kept in captivity. For lunch, we bought something called a super pancho, which we thought was going to be an Argentinian dish. It turns out that it's nothing more than a hot dog.

Then we went to a mate bar to try our first mate (pronounced MAT eh). This is a traditional Argentinian drink, which is much like tea. It's quite nice... we both liked it, and will probably have more some other time.

The hostel has organised a BBQ for tonight, so we'll go to that, and maybe a club after. Tomorrow we'll probably start giving some thought to going to another city.