Student Meca

Plaza San Martin
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I arrived in Cordoba at 6 in the morning feeling quite groogy since I still haven´t quite adjusted to sleeping in buses (I need to sort this out lively since there are plenty of overnight buses still to come!), got a taxi to the highly recommeded Tango hostel only to find it that it was booked out! Luckily there was another hostel around the corner into which I crashed straight into bed knowing that the night could be a long one since I planned on hitting the town.

Havingly eventually woken up myself and an English guy Piere decided to  walk back to Tango Hostel to see if we could book a room for the next few days and luckily we could and even better was that they invited us to the hostel that night for a leaving party for a ozzie lad. It turned into quite a big party followed by a nightclub which I now stuggle to describe! The next few nights were more of the same with everyone in the hostel, Piere, Nick, Mick, Bernie, Dublin Lads, pretty Roma, in party mode for the weekend. It also helped that the students were just beginning there winter break and thus were having one last big weekend of partying.

Party Party Party

Cobbled Streets
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Cordoba is big university city with 100,000´s of students and the vibe from the place is as expected with plenty of young people bustling about shopping, eating, and drinking, and oh ya queueng for ATM´s!. The city architecture is very colonial and can seem vey old and run down in many areas. I took a open top bus tour of the city to get a good overview of the city but I wasn´t overly impressed, apart from the central pedestrian streets and plaza´s where there is plenty of sites and sounds to keep it interesing, particularly around Plaza San Martin.

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After a few days recovery time (needed due to 7am returns and monster vodka shot sizes - literally vodka and a dash of coke) off I headed on another overnight bus with Chevallier to Buenos Aires.