Today a bunch of us girls ventured out to Mataderos, where the Feria de Mataderos is held every Sunday during the summer months. It's about an hour bus ride outside of the city so it was a bit of a trek. Finding the bus, now that was the hard part. We planned on taking the bus at noon, didn't end up happening till about 2pm, which was fine. Some people were late, others wanted to grab a cafe con leche on the way, so I was cool with it. Learning to relax and not be on a schedule is part of the culture here, so I'm trying to embrace it.
On the way to the bus stop we ran into the Olympic sign so I took a picture.
A little history: the Feria de Mataderos was created in 1986 to spread this popular Argentinean culture through food and dance. There is folk music playing, traditional dancers, and gauchos practicing their horse races. There's also a museum, Mueso Criollo de los Corrales that depicts the lifestyle of these gauchos according to the different regions within Argentina.
Once we got to the feria one of the first things I saw was this little pony! They were selling rides and pictures with it.
A gaucho practicing his horse racing in traditional clothing.
The street food was amazing. They had all kinds of foods, including the ones below. I had a pancho (hot dog) with salted potatoes on top! I didn't try any of the sweets but the one below is different types of fruits, dipped in caramel with sweet/salty popcorn.
After walking around the market for a few hours we sat down on the grass in front of this skate park where people, mostly kids were swimming. It poured all day yesterday and must have flooded the skate park because there was enough water to swim in without seeing the bottom.
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