We stayed at a hostel called 'The Link' and I do remember that, because it's the only hostel I've ever recommended to someone. The link was an awesome hostel, we arrived at 8am, stayed one night, then left at 11pm the next day - so we only had one night in the hostel, but I reckon if we hadn't had already booked our bus outta there, we would have defo stayed on another night. The hostel was ridiculously friendly, offered free Spanish lessons in the mornings, and low price home cooked meals and drinks in the evenings. Alot of hostels we stayed at could learn a thing or 2 about friendliness and cleaniless from The Link.
The first day we just dumped our bags at the hostel and went out to explore the city. Cordoba is really big, but we walked from one end to the other, and everywhere in between.
It finally felt like we were in civilisation, with McDonalds' and Nike stores, where we were used to seeing roadside llama wool socks and hand-woven wallets stalls, and I'm not going to lie... we did eat at maccas. However, as I don't eat meat I casually ordered a McNifica sin carne (ie: without the meat patty). Apparently a hilarious order, as the guy behind the counter proceeded to loose his shit. He stopped all employees from what they were doing to tell them of the hilarity of my order, and soon enough the whole restaurant was in histyrics. But, I was hungry, so continued with my order "con papas fritas y coca cola" (with fries and coke) to which to wise guy behind me in the line piped up "sin gas?! jajajajaja!!!!" (without the gas - referring to the coke, obvs). I didn't order with a side of JERK now, did I? Aaaanyway... I got what I ordered, and it was bloody delicious! So.... yeah.
After the maccas ordeal we wondered towards what looked on the map to be a big park area. Turned out to be totally dodgy and empty, bar a handful of young houligans, so we went to the zoo. Sorry, I meant to say, the pathetic excuse for a zoo. It was kinda sad to go to that zoo actually, and alot of animals were solo in their enclosures, and the panther was being really agressive, but on the plus side there was this deer which kept picking sticks up in his mouth.
We went on a day trip the next day, out to the place where Che Guevara lived for the younger part of his childhood (Alta Gracia), there is a museum there now and it was supposed to be interesting. Wasn't really.
We went back into Cordoba was dinner with the hostel crew where we learnt a new card game which we immediately forgot, and ate soup(ish) lentil stuff which was nicer than I am making it sound. 11pm and off to Bs As!
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