Brazil, Iguassu Falls, and Argentina (6)

I had hoped to get a picture of The Iguazu Falls from the plane. But I did get a lot of water which I’m sure all poured over those Falls.

Our hotel in Buenos Aires was beautiful. And the spa was lovely but we never did get into it. I had a massage for 45 minutes that I thought was going to cost me $115 but it turned out it was 115,000, argentinian Pesos which turned out to be only $77.

On our off time we went to Cafe Tortoni which had been in business for hundreds of years. It was Beautiful. But again the translation didn’t work. We wanted one churro to go and three to eat at the table, with the caramel or chocolate sauce. We ended up with four churros in a paper bag which was disappointing. — Not enough to want to learn Spanish of course but still disappointing.

CLICK. The cemetery where Eva Peron was finally laid to rest. She is under several feet of cement so that her enemies cannot grab her body and torment it like they did for the first 10 years after her death.

I love a cemetery. And levels below all these mausoleums are ladders for further storage underground.

Note the air plants growing out from behind this statue’s ear and on his wrist.

I love to peek inside these grave sites to see how they’re being kept. Some of them had kneelers inside were people actually went to kneel and pray next to their loved ones dead bodies.

Some Graves were so narrow the casket could not fit on the top shelf and I’m sure was kept below ground.

This is quite the poor person’s grave site. But I’m sure they were loved just the same.

Eva peron’s grave site. She was never accepted by her father in her lifetime ; however after her death they put her in this mausoleum. His last name was Duarte.

I saw butterflies through throughout the trip.

I would love to climb down and see what’s below!

I swear this girl has roller skates on.

This was a young teenage girl who died and her mother used to sleep below her next to her casket for many months after her death. What a beautiful horizontal statue.

The La Boca area used to be a poor neighborhood that got upgraded with tourism and now is a great spot for the tourists to view a local neighborhood. We were instructed to stay in certain street areas for our own safety, however.

These trees look like avocado trees until you see that once they explode they are big balls of cotton.

Liz and I were very impressed with the mosaic tile floors. She is requested I do that in her house. Yeah. Right.

I always love to take a picture of these guards because I think it’s against the law.

Thousands of people were murdered by the government because they were speaking against the reigning government. Our tour guide’s cousin disappeared forever. I couldn’t believe that many people could be killed (30,000, I think), just for the logistics of where you’d put the bodies. But I was told they were simply dumped in the nearby river. Every year since that time, people would come wearing scarves like this to pray and remember their loved ones that disappeared by the government.