Saturday 19th April
We hung out by ourselves in the morning as Anna had to work and Dave had some work to do on his bike. We tried visiting some museums, but found they were all closed because they were having a special opening session at night from 2000-0100, so we just wandered around and had more coffee and cake at Café Alexander´s. We then decided to take a city tour in the afternoon on a double decker bus.
The tour was very interesting and we got to see all the major sights of the central city (statues, churches, city lookout etc), and then we went out to the southern part of the city (called Zona Sur). It is like a different World out there, very upmarket, flash houses and shopping centres and lots of green space. Compared to the city centre which is quite dirty, everything is crammed in, there are throngs of people everywhere, and everything is quite rundown. We also visited Valle de Luna (Valley of the Moon) which is a very interesting landscape where water has eroded the soil away over 1000´s of years to form a lunar like landscape – very cool.
Caught up with Anna and Dave later that afternoon, and found out that our mountain bike ride tomorrow has been cancelled – major bummer!!
Had dinner at a great Lebanese restaurant called Yusseff´s – B/40 (NZ$8) for so much food I had to get Andrew to help me finish it!
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