the one about noise

a last glacier picture (that I had uploaded and then forgotten to post.. duh)

This is La Paz. My idea of the place is equally erratic. remember tired-ness and noise and smell and shouting people and honking cars (the honk of many many cars resemble wolf whistling - but there was also a recent truck with "For Elise" at full dezibel level)


Speaking of noise, I forgot to mention that in my Buenos Aires hostel there was a dogwalker stand outside the dorm room. Trucks were thundering past at night, although, to be fair, it was always rather morning than night. There was partying in this hostel EVERY night, and when we went out for dinner, it never started before 9 or 10pm. You adapt immediately to this time frame.

Of the following BA impression I had fotos on my cell phone, which got stolen in Mendoza however, so there's only a verbalized version:
Jugglers on the giant Avenida del Libertad. An acid green parrot eating an orange colored fruit from this claws. Around the strangely artificial rose garden, people walk, bike and run by. There's even a streetball court, for an upcoming "Buenos Aires in zapatos" festival, and Toto's Africa is playing for a nonexistent audience from the empty stage.
Middle-aged medium-built men are meating meat from a street cart, where kebab-sized pieces are grilled. Middle-aged ladies are elegantly dressed up. The weather changed from dull and sticky to almost impalpable rain to sunny and downpour of rain. At night, the sky was burning and I left for Mendoza in the usual hectic chaos.

In the bus to Mendoza I suffered the usual enforcement of acustic contamination. This time rendering hilarious moments, though and opportunities for a teenage revival: Besides heaps of languishing "latin lovers" and extremely sensualized female singels (the argentinian videos), I was enjoying an amazingly innocent video of "I want it that way," "Total Eclipse of the Heart" which seems to me to be the 80s version of camp? It's a mix between "Bad (the fog machines), the Rocky Hrror Picture Show (her hairstyle), and evidence in a conspiracy case: doors opening unmotivatedly, a scary alien congregation on "bright eyes"... scary