Carnaval

In five hours or so, I’ll be heading to Gualeguaychu, three and a half hours and 220km north of Buenos Aires, close to Argentina’s border with Uruguay. It has a population of 75,000 people, so it should be a nice change from Buenos Aires. It’s CARNAVAL time. Gualeguaychu holds the country’s largest and longest carnival celebrations, and the biggest party is reserved for the last week. This week. The week we’re going.

I stumbled across this celebration last time I was in Argentina, about 7 years ago. But I was alone, and feeling stupid, leaving my friends for Brazil, due to a visa which I failed to utilize within the allotted time. I was two days out… But even though I was alone, the show was awesome, and the beers were BIG.

This time, I’ll be going with about fifty people going from my university in an organized tour so it should be quite a different experience. They don’t muck around with the costumes as you can see from this video. Be sure to watch the security guard/cop...