Besides its many bars, cafes and restaurants, that offer something for every taste or preference, the streets of Palermo are great for wandering around and getting lost in one of its hidden alleys or corners. Just walking around on a sunny day, you’ll find countless paintings covering the walls of the houses, one graffiti following the other. That’s why Palermo is not only known as the place to go out at night, but also as the bohemian street art district of Buenos Aires.
Palermo Street Art
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After flying for only 2 hours from Buenos Aires, we arrived in Santiago de Chile, the capital of our neighbouring country. Spending five days in the city of the craziest rush hours, smoggy skies, colourful street art, sweet Terremotos and incomprehensible Spanish, was like visiting another world. Although we did not even leave the continent, only 1500km from Buenos Aires, still hearing and speaking Spanish, Chile is so distinct from what we’re used to in Argentina that at some point we simply stopped counting the differences, and just enjoyed the alternation and little changes from our temporary home, Buenos Aires. 
Living in Argentina for four months – the country with some of the world’s greatest wineries -, doing a wine tasting tour is most definitely a must. And what better place to experience the wine culture of this country and get a taste of some of the supposedly best wines you’ll ever taste, than Mendoza, home to the largest wine producing area in all of Latin-America. The city itself, which counts as one of the great wine capitals of the world, is a small, laid-back place, only a couple of hours from the Chilean border. After an interesting 11-hour, border-crossing bus ride from Santiago to Mendoza, all of us were ready to finally get on our bikes, cycle around the marvellous scenery with the magnificent Andes mountains on the horizon, and catch some rays, while tasting those wonderful wines that everybody was talking about. 
One day in Buenos Aires. Visiting this beautiful city at the Rio de la Plata, wondering what its crazy streets and countless neighbourhoods have in store for you. Asking yourself where its hidden jams lie, and what happened on the 9th of July. Eager to find out what this place and its people, the “Porteños”, have to offer, and what the must-sees of the city might be. What do you actually do in this 13 million people metropolis, home of Evita, Maradona and the Pope? Keep reading, and find out about my version of the most “Argentinian” 24h you could possibly spend in the capital. 
Our trip to the north didn’t just end with us road-tripping from Salta to Cafayate and back. Since there was so much more nature, so many more roads and places for us to discover further north, we took the 2h-bus from Salta to Jujuy and continued our adventure to Tilcara. This marvellous little village lies about 1,5h from San Salvador de Jujuy, where we once again rented a car to reach our next destinations. However, finding a car this time didn’t turn out as easy as it had the first time. 
The Argentinian Lifestyle 
Although there are a ton of things to do in the city of Buenos Aires, and we don’t even know where to start working through our list, we thought that getting out of the big and noisy city for a day couldn’t hurt. Tigre and La Plata seemed to be the perfect locations for our day-trip-plans, since both cities can easily be reached within an hour by public transportation from the Retiro bus/train terminal in BA. Being an exchange student has its perks, such as not having any classes on Fridays, and so we went on our little day trips the past two weekends. We didn’t regret visiting either one of the two places, but one of them definitely outran the other. 
The classes of our “Cuatrimestre” here in Buenos Aires started three weeks ago, and after some first impressions of the faculty, professors, style of the classes, and the tutor program of the university, it’s safe to say that the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) is nothing like what we’re used to from home. Turns out that our home base Maastricht University (UM) is not only a lot more organised and on time when it comes to course selections or time schedules of tutorials, but you would also never imagine to have pre-drinks at the SBE faculty in Maastricht – something that’s not all that unusual here at the UBA.
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