This gets us to Ninh Binh

Time difference: 15 hours later than Olympia

Time on a Plane: 1 day 10 hours 30 minutes

Time in a Car/Bus: 1 week 4 days 11 hours 0 minutes

Time on a Train: 16 hours 0 minutes

Time on a Boat: 2 days 10 hours 50 minutes

Time in an Airport: 1 day 1 hour 10 minutes

Total time in Transit: 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours 10 minutes

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Walking around Palermo

    In the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, there are three Palermos: Old Palermo, the embassy section; New Palermo; and Hollywood Palermo, because of the actors who move there.  When we walked around there yesterday we were mostly in new Palermo, though we did see the Korean embassy.  
     Despite walking around for a long time in this part of the city I don't have all that much to say as, being new year, all of the stores, restaurants, and museums were closed.  In a traffic circle there was an impressive statue given to the city by Spain in 1910 and, in the park across the street, there was a Rodin sculpture and some others.  
      Last night my parents went for drinks at the square just a block or so away from us but, though told that people would be tangoing in 10 minutes, the dance was wrapping up.  They did, however, see a drum parade assembling so my dad came home and got me and we joined the huge crowd of people to watch.
     For some reason the main memory card for my camera isn't working.  It wouldn't fit in the camera for a while, then suddenly did but the camera couldn't detect it.  I have a back-up memory card (which I am now using) but I worry that it can't hold a fifth the number of pictures.
     Today we have a bus at 2, and maybe I won't be able to post tomorrow because it will be 25 hours and I will be exhausted.  Hopefully the road will be a little less bumpy than the one to Cusco.  I would say where I was going, but I'm not quite sure.  Bariloche, maybe?
    
The Rodin sculpture
Drummers (because my camera was on night mode it's blurry)
The sculpture from Spain


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