It was time to leave Salta behind and check out the big city: Buenos Aires. If you are by the way wondering how our lovely cactus is doing.... in short: not so good.

As it turned out, this kind ofcactus, or to use the correct term: Candelabra-cactus (Euphorbia lactea), usually called'cardón' ,is very protected in Saltaand it is actually forbidden to take a dead cactus (so, even when it's just a piece of wood) out of the province. Well, except if you send it with Fedex and pay 2300 dollars, or if you buy them atone of the threeauthorized stores. So, this law makes absolutely no sence. But when we took the cactus to the airport, people were more than willing to help us with it, and when we showed the invoice it was no problem to take the cactuswith us on the plane. But then at the last moment, some annoying police guy came and pointedout the law, and kept our very nice cactus with him.

So later that day we arrived in Buenos Aires without our wooden friend. And what do you do when you are in Buenos Aires? Dance the tango of course!

We went to the famous tango place 'Confiteria Ideal', and took a tango lesson. I have to say, we were pretty good! Allan was a natural.

When we had enough tango for one day we checked out a bit of Buenos Aires nightlife with some mojito's and some more dancing...

Today we went shopping in the Palermo area, which is a kind of hippie neighbourhood, but with very nice shops, restaurants and bars.

We have given some stories about how cheap things are in other countries, and Argentina can also be very cheap with some things. Allan needed to have a root canal performed on a tooth and after consulting the almighty google, he went to see an English speakingdentist. The root canal cost 300 pesos incl. xrays, and everything. 300 pesos is 30 euros....a dentist in Europe will charge you the same to shake his hand.

As you can see in these pictures, there are no people. All the shops closed and the owners retired rich and happy after Miriam went on a legendary shopping spree. Some will say thatit was what Iowed her a shopping day after the volcano Misti, Miriam thinks I still owe her some more shopping, but tomorrow we will fly to El Calafate, in the South of Argentina, to see some glaciers, good luck finding shops there :-)...