On Saturday, we had made plans to do a hop on hop off bus tour so we could fit in as many attractions as possible. However this did not go as well as we'd hoped. After stepping out of our hostel on to the normally very busy main street, we noticed that the road had been closed off. We wandered up to nearby Av 9 de Julio, the massive 20 lane road running through the centre of the city, to find hundreds of people waving flags of different colours and chanting. There was also loud music and women dancing on top of a lorry. We had no idea what was going on and it soon became clear that the main route of the tour we were hoping to do was in fact closed off to cars. We walked around still not knowing much about what was happening. A while after, we noticed some men in suits running alongside a car which had a woman sticking her hand out the tinted windows and waving. This may or may not have been the president of Argentina, and the parade had something to do with an election. Either way, we returned to the hostel after people started letting off very loud bangers. The rest of the day was spent relaxing in the hostel and walking around looking for somewhere to eat, which turned out to be fairly successful.
Our last day in the city was mostly spent at a market in the San Telmo region. We didn't really know what to expect, and it turns out it is market store after market store on what seemed like an endless cobbled street. We walked all the way down the road admiring everything which was for sale. Stuff ranging from handbags and wooden crafts, to clothes and second hand cutlery. This also gave us the opportunity to see some tango shows, which were performed on the street. On our way back we came across a live band playing some Spanish type ska music with trumpets, saxophone, guitar and some sort of drum which you sit on, something which I've noticed is widely played in South America.
After the market we returned to the hostel to relax before our 11 hour night bus to Cordoba that evening.
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