Chapter 542: Buenos Aires
When Hong Tao told Fat Man Bu (Hong Tao's nickname to Fat Man Bruce) and Sturgeon all these things truthfully, these two people didn't feel that it was too dangerous, and agreed to find a good day and an auspicious day to send Amazon!
As long as the opinions are unanimous, the rest of the things will be easy to do, nothing more than to prepare all kinds of documents and luggage, due to the long distance, Hong Tao decided not to bring fishing gear or something, and when it comes to the United States to purchase together, as long as you bring a little more money, you will have everything.
When everything was ready to stop, it was already September, and Hong Tao, Fat Zibu and Sturgeon were carrying a large 60-liter hiking bag and boarding a Delta Air Lines flight from Beijing to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. As for why they didn't fly directly to Brazil, isn't this to save money, the three of them all spend their own money, and no one is a big money, so it is a little bit to save a little. If you fly directly to São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, a one-way ticket costs more than 10,000 yuan, and the ticket to Buenos Aires is only more than 4,000 yuan.
"See, this is the gap, if we go alone, we will lose 10,000 yuan just on the plane, and we will have to lose 10,000 yuan when we come back!" When Hong Tao discussed the itinerary with Fat Zibu and Sturgeon, Fat Zibu praised Hong Tao's arrangement, and deliberately patted Sturgeon's shoulder and praised Hong Tao tactfully.
Saving money is a saving of money, but there is a slight delay in time, because there are only 2 flights a week from Buenos Aires to Manaus, so Hong Tao and his team have to stay in Argentina for 2 days before they can leave again.
"It's okay! We buddies don't have anything else, it's just a lot of time, and it would be better if we could go around every country in South America! "It's not that the sturgeon doesn't like to talk, but he stutters a little, and he generally doesn't speak until the critical moment.
When Hong Tao and his party came out of Ezeiza International Airport, a whole day had passed. It was more than 8 o'clock in the morning when they got on the plane from Beijing, and it happened to be more than 8 o'clock in the morning, counting the more than one hour of transiting in Atlanta on the way, and they spent 24 hours on the plane.
When he first set foot in the South American country of Argentina, Hong Tao's first impression was that the sun here was very good, which was very abundant and not so searing to the skin. For the country of Argentina, Hong Tao's understanding is limited to football and beef, and football does not need to be detailed, Maradona, Caniggia, Batistuta, Redondo, Riquelme, Messi...... This large list of names represents a period of glory in Argentine football. And these people, all of them, grew up eating high-quality Argentine beef.
But apart from these two things, Hong Tao knows nothing about Argentina, he can neither understand Spanish nor dance the famous tango, and Fat Man Bu and Sturgeon are also Argentinian blind like Hong Tao.
At this time, the value of Hong Tao is reflected, to be precise, the value of his daughter-in-law. When Erin was helping Hong Tao arrange his trip. specially asked the hunting company to arrange a Brazilian guide for Hong Tao and them, and this guide is also an Argentine guide.
The guide's name is Fernando, and his surname is Fabio, but it is different in Brazil than in Europe and the United States. It is common to refer to people by their first name rather than their last name, and they are particularly fond of giving nicknames to others, and they also like to have others call themselves by their nicknames, which shows a bit of Brazilian personality from this.
It was this Fernando who came to pick you up. He was a white Brazilian, not young, probably in his 50s. A thin curly hair, and a straw top hat, short and short, but holding a large cardboard board, in Chinese, crookedly written two Chinese characters: dumplings!
"Who told you these two Chinese characters?" Hong Tao was very angry, how could the master's nickname be used so casually!
"Your wife specially told me, and she sent me a fax to let me practice a few more times, what do you think of my writing?" Fernando deliberately put down the sign and pointed to the two crooked words and asked Hong Tao.
"Well, it's well written, it's almost catching up with me!" When Hong Tao heard that it was Erin who said, he immediately lost his temper.
"Lao Hong, why do they call you dumplings?" The fat man Bu is 1 year younger than Hong Tao, so he calls Hong Tao Lao Hong.
"Their tongue is not good, they can't say my name clearly, so they just find a trouble-free word to say, let's go, my waist is about to break when I sit on the plane this day." Hong Tao briefly explained the origin of his nickname, and got into the broken car driven by Fernando with his backpack.
"I've arranged the hotel, it's in the city, you guys rest first, I'll pick you up at dinner, there are a lot of delicious things to taste here, and the wine is also very good." Fernando's car was quite broken, but the driving skills were top-notch, and almost all of the way except for the traffic lights, the throttle was almost all the way to the end.
The city of Buenos Aires is very distinctive, when the plane hovered over the airport, Hong Tao condescendingly saw its whole picture, the most significant place can be summed up in one word, flat!
The whole downtown area is almost like a big chessboard, with no ups and downs at all, and the dense houses and connections make the city look like a circuit board from the air. Not only is the city flat, but the periphery of the city is also very flat, at a glance, within the sight, a small mountain peak can not be seen, all yellow-green plains, these yellow-green is not the soil layer, but pasture, in October it is the winter here, the temperature is about 10 degrees, some of the grass is withered, some are still green.
Ezeiza International Airport is quite far from the city of Buenos Aires, and it takes about half an hour to drive at a speed like Fernando's to enter the city, and the streets here are not very wide, and the houses on both sides are very old, which looks a bit like an ancient European city.
Hong Tao and his hotel are in the port area of Buenos Aires, also known as Boca District, and when he hears this name, Hong Tao reminds him of a famous Argentine football team, Boca Juniors. That's right, it's Boca Juniors, their home stadium, the Boca Juniors Stadium, which is just a few blocks away from the Nogaro restaurant where the Hongtao live.
"The tip for the male waiter is 1 peso each time, and the female waiter is 50 cents each time, remember, don't give it the other way around, it will cause trouble if you don't get the gratitude you deserve!" After Fernando sent them to the dining hall, he didn't go up, he didn't live here, it was a 4-star restaurant, and the price of a standard room was 150 pesos, which was almost equal to 50 US dollars.
"This is Chiguoguo's sexism!" Sturgeon's English was okay, he seemed to understand, and asked Hong Tao in Chinese.
"Cheng, I wrote it down, thank you very much." Hong Tao doesn't care about gender discrimination or non-discrimination, they are not here to engage in the women's liberation movement.
"Don't worry, I still have something to say, everyone sit down and listen to me first, these are all very important, you must remember!" Fernando didn't plan to leave, but motioned to Hong Tao and them to sit in the lounge area of the lobby first, it seemed that he had a lot to say.
"If you want to go out, it's best not to go alone at night, and be sure to let me know! When you take a taxi, you have to change your change before you take it! When making a bus, if someone gets on the bus to hand out small commodities such as chocolates and chewing gum, don't open it, it's not a trial pack, you can only see it and you can't use it, and you have to pay for it when you open the package! Fernando sat down and said a bunch of things that made Hong Tao and them listen a little chilling.
"Why do you have to prepare change when you take a taxi, don't you have change in the taxis here?" Hong Tao understood the first and third items, which was nothing more than that the security situation here at night was not very good, but he had never heard of a country where he did not find money by taxi.
"It's not that you don't have change, some taxi drivers will find you the banknotes that have been invalidated a few years ago when they see that you are foreigners, and it is difficult for ordinary tourists to tell the difference." Fernando was not in a hurry to leave, and patiently answered Hong Tao's question.
"That's a cruel trick! It's better not to give change! Done, Mr. Fernando, we're not going anywhere in the hotel until you come! "Hong Tao can see it, it's better to have more things here than less, after all, just passing by, he won't stay for more than two days, and he can't go to find trouble.
The hotel room is good, very comfortable, and the store also provides a coffee machine and hair dryer for free, but for Hong Tao it is equivalent to nothing. He doesn't know how to use the coffee machine, he doesn't use it, he rarely drinks coffee, he doesn't use the hair dryer, his hair doesn't grow much longer than his beard, and how to blow it is also that virtue.
I slept until more than 5 p.m., didn't even eat lunch, and it was so tiring to make a long-haul flight. When Hong Tao got up, he went to the next room to take a look, and the fat cloth and the sturgeon were also taking a bath and changing clothes.
But after the shower was washed and the clean clothes were changed, Fernando didn't come to the left or right, and seeing that the hour hand was already pointing to 7 o'clock, he still didn't see his short figure in the lobby.
"Sir, is there anything I can help with?" The lobby manager of the hotel really couldn't look at it, Hong Tao had been around the sofa for almost 2 hours, and he could only come up and ask in order not to affect other travelers.
"Oh, I'm waiting for a friend who said he'd come and pick us up for dinner, but he hasn't come yet, and I don't have his phone." Hong Tao didn't hide it from the lobby manager, and complained about Fernando's lateness. (To be continued......)
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