Such an amazing experience…

So after our camping experience we made our way to the border brazil side to enjoy the views of this amazing water falls. 

And on the Argentina side we got to live it all. With water rushing down. It really is an experience that the pictures does not justify. You will have to really be there to have that feel. 

Iguazu water falls if considered one of the 7 wonders of the world and it really has earned that name. 

Brazil and Argentina border explorations Ends..

Yeap you read that right…we are the Manns family and at any point in time we can find something interesting to get into. So we decided to have our first camping experience in argentina and camping experience it was. 

It rained both nights while camping there. And I personally came to the conclusion that I am not made to camp. Hotel and homes will be just fine for me. 

We stayed at the camping Ecológico and loved the grounds so much and the owners are absolutely awesome. And it was only 10min drive to the Brazil boarder and also to the water falls.

Here are a few memories of our camping experience.

Putting up our tent…

Yeap she is holding a live frog…lol…

Ready to get some rest in our tent…

Camping Exploration Ends….

Today has been 2 months since we arrived in Buenos Aires. And with 6 days more before we make our way up north towards Brazil. 

We decided to have one last family day out to comemorate our trip here. 

We visited unicenter (Buenos Aires suppose largest mall) after all our travels it take a really  large space to make us feel like we are shopping in a large mall.

We went to play bowling and have some dinner and did a little looking through the shopping glass windows…it’s hard to shop in Buenos Aires since everything here seem overly priced and because it’s winter here…most of the things they sell here are all for winter months.we are more of summer family. 

Here are a few pictures of our family night out.

A little lesson from her dad before the game begins.

Argentina Exploration Continues. ..

Today the kids and I decided to explore a little more of what this great city offers…arts and music.

So we visited the number 1 opera teatro in the world…Teatro Colon.

It’s located in the centro of Buenos Aires and any taxi or uber (my choice is uber) can get you there easily.

Prices are reasonable and really worth the guided tour. Foreigners pay 200 pesos and citizens of Argentina pays 80 pesos.
And we bought our guided tour ticket the day before. The tours are timed so be aware of that. And they have spanish tour and english tour.

This place is absolutely magnificent with history that I had not idea and sounds of songs that I know but had no idea it’s call opera songs.

The Teatro Colon was built in 1908 and it took 18yrs to finish the building and open it for events.

The most expensive tickets cost $260 per person and that’s for the best seats apart from the presidential seats next to the stage. And then you can get the cheapest ticket for $20 but that’s like being in a hencoop and you just standing. They have 1 opera event and 1 ballet event once a 1 month.  And they have free admission to the Teatro Colon one sunday of every month. And also you can see the rehearsals of the Opera and ballet on Sundays at 11am.

The tour took about 50min just in a moment of gratitude seeing such amazing decor and elegance of this building.

Here are a few shots of our tour

That’s the red carpet entrance…it’s grand…

It’s one of the Opera houses that makes all their clothing for the performance

Check out those lights….

Red carpet all the way

They allow as to sit in the booth of the dignitaries. Which usually cost $260 per seat. And that’s the stage yoy see there.

What a world filled with creativity.

Argentina Exploration Continues….

So picture this journey.

A Ghanaian mother with her 4 young kids in a country they know nobody and does not speak the language. All she could say was hello and thank you.

Well that’s me and my munchkins…last weekend the kids and I set out to explore La Plata to meet our other homeschool family.

Got to the train station and could not read any sign nor does anyone there speak english.
Stood in a line to hopefully get a ticket from the ticket machine because the ticket counter office was closed.
After about 30min in line and got to the machine it was in spanish too…so could not read it. So I went to the information center and I said La plata…and pointing to myself and the kids. LOL!!!

Well the guy at the counter was so helpful and with our smiles he walked us all the way to the train and said free…so yeap there you have who said you need a whole lot of money to travel….lol!! A few smiles and you get free train rides.

Got on the train and then the bus and after 2 hours we are in La Plata.

Met our beautiful homeschool family and we spend the day touring through the city.

La plata is a beautiful city. I felt like the whole city is a park.
And to our suprise it’s a diagonal city…yeap…that means you can get lost and walk all around the city just to get back to your apartment. Or if you know the diagonal points then your walk is cut off short for you.

Here are a few photos of our weekend

Walking through the park

Such a beautiful fall picture

Dinner as family

At the science museum

And it’s coffee break for the adults..

Me and my new LLF’S in La Plata….we both got a new makeover…

My son loves my new look…

Now La Plata was super cold…but with wamth from our new LLF’S we created memorable weekend.

Argentina Exploration Continues…..

European immigrants arrived on the shores of the Rio de la Plata in South America, in the two port cities of Montevideo, Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most of them were Italian and Spanish, and the vast majority were single young men looking to make their fortunes in America. They brought their music: the sweet sounds of the violin, the driving flamenco guitar, the strange mournful wail of the bandoneon – and their dances: the waltz, the mazurka, the polka – and mixed them with the Argentine folk music and dance, with the Cuban habanera, with the African candombe rhythms from the freed slaves’ street parties. With very few women around, many of these young men found themselves looking for excitement in the bordello districts of the burgeoning port cities. The tango dance arose in these seedy waterfront areas from this turbulent mix, becoming a “mating dance” between barmaids and their customers in shady nightclubs. Shunned by the upper and middle classes in Argentina, it nevertheless became a sleazy fixture of urban nightlife in Buenos Aires. Young men in neighborhood gangs would practice the steps with each other in order to become skilled enough to win the attentions of a woman. A beginner would often dance the follower’s part for six months to a year before being shown how to lead.

As Argentina became very wealthy around the turn of the century, the sons of rich families would often look for adventure and excitement in the rougher parts of town, and learned the tango as part of their escapades. Some of these young men of privilege would show off the tango as a treat for their friends on their sojourns to Paris, then the cultural capital of the world. The Parisians were shocked and titillated by this raw, sensuous dance. This led to a “tango craze” that swept all of Europe, and reached America in the years just prior to World War I. New York newspapers in 1916 feature ads from over seven hundred tango establishments. While the original tango was disturbing to many arbiters of good taste, a heavily sanitized version of tango found its way into the European and American dance academies, where it remains a fixture in ballroom competitions today.

Today the girls and I took to the streets of Caminito la boca to explore and experience and immerse ourselves in the tango culture and we did it on a cloudy day but it was so wroth it.

Here are few shots of our day in the small port city called Caminito and here you will see tango dancers on the street just dancing their hearts out.

Welcome to caminto people

Learning the basic tango move

She was loving it

And she just took it to the next level

Sisters for life….where is karama?

My silly kids

Such an amazing town….

Just art all around us…

All about tango dance and art

A little Argentine pose

Live tango dance while having lunch

My tango moment

Such an awesome experience for me and my kids today….

Thanks to all the dancers on the caminto la boca street.

Argentina Exploration Continues. …