Polly: We´re still in Puerto de Iguazu and kind of enjoying this little town. It´s got loads of character and cool little bars and restaurants. The locals are really friendly and I´m trying to practice my Spanish, although it´s still fairly ropey. For the first few days we noticed everyone walked around with a flask under their arm and a little cup, but didn´t really get it. We now have been aquainted with the Argentinian custom of Mate Yerba. It´s a local herb a bit like green tea which allegedly improves concentration, health, energy, fights illness, banishes depression and is the [View Full Entry]

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Ross: Argentina! We caught a 23-hour Kaiowa bus from Rio to Foz do Iguacu (Brazil) on Saturday which put National Express to shame (though our seat allocation next to the toilet was a bit stinky). Almost fully-reclining seats meant we got a relatively good amount of sleep on the journey. After a few pick-ups on the way to Sao Paulo the rest of the journey through rural Brazil consisted of large-scale agriculture on rolling plains. A few short stops at service stations helped to break up the journey. Arrived in Foz do Iguacu yesterday (Sunday) and hopped on a local bus [View Full Entry]

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Dag 20. Som nesten vanlig var Eirik oppe kl 7:30, og begynte aa pakke lenge for Jane var klar for aa vaakne. I dag var det skikkelig Bergensvaer da vi gikk til frokost. Etter frokosten pakket vi ferdig, og gikk til busstasjonen. Vi kjopte med oss drikke og en god pose med empanadas til turen. Bussen gikk presis - kl 11. Bussturen -> landskapet forandret seg langsomt fra subtropisk regnskog til pampas. Torre gress-sletter, i alle retninger, saa langt oyet kan se. Foles nesten som aa vaere ute paa havet - bare at vannet var erstattet med gress. Maten paa bussen [View Full Entry]

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Dag 19. Jane er storfornoyd - har sovet hele natten (hadde doren paa glott til det andre rommet for aa faa inn litt varme, og ut mugglukt!), og Eirik sov helt til 9:40. Rekord! Frokostserveringen var ferdig kl 10, saa den rakk vi ikke. Vi gikk derfor til et supermarked og kjopte oss ferske rundstykker, ost, skinke og flotte tomater. Saa bar det tilbake til hostellet for aa nyte en god frokost (fellesrommet). Samtidig, og etter frokosten skrev vi mer i dagboken og lastet opp bilder til bloggen. Nettverket er ganske ustabilt, og vi har funnet ut at det er midt [View Full Entry]

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Wow, what a day! We woke up this morning about 15 minutes before our taxi was supposed to arrive to take us to Iguazú National Park, thanks to my extremely quiet iPod alarm. We made it with a few minutes to spare, and even got a cup of coffee before we left. Our personal cabbie, Marcos - who we befriended yesterday at the airport - took us to the park, stopping along the way to show us a crocodile in the wild! Our day of ecological sight-seeing began with a 30-minute mini-safari through the jungle to a point downstream from the [View Full Entry]

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Dag 17. Vi ble vekket til frokost paa bussen. Den besto av sote croisanter, sott paalegg, sote kjeks og noen drops. Eirik bestilte kaffe for aa faa en motvekt til det sote - men den var full av sukker den ogsaa! Etter at frokosten inkl. drops var oppspist, ble det satt paa en ny film. Dette var ogsaa en eldre amerikansk film (Wedding Crashers). Men men, tiden gikk og vips var vi framme til Puerto Iguazu. Det var flere som stod paa busstasjonen for og selge overnatting til oss som kom med bussen. Vi hadde reservert (etter anbefaling og med hjelp [View Full Entry]

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We took an overnight bus from Curitiba to Foz do Iguazu which is the town on the Brazilian side of the falls and from there hopped straight on a bus to take us over the border to Puerto Iguazu on the Argentinian side. We´d decided to go straight to the Argentinian side as we´d been told it was much better. It felt strange having completed our first country but exciting to go on to the next. We were sad to leave Brazil, we could have easily spent a year there exploring the never ending and stunning coast lines, drinking caiprinhas and [View Full Entry]

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It was finally nice to touch-down after 3 days of traveling. I can´t say I was a happy bunny though.....having come from Ecuador´s sunny smile to arrive in Argentina´s winter I started to feel climate-related depression....& I think it reminded me of the days to come (& look forward to!?) at home!! I´ve been so lucky on my travels because I´ve had sunshine for most of the journey.....so finishing off my last 2 weeks in winter was a tough come-back to reality. I stayed in a hostel in Iguazu that comes highly recommended by lots of travelers. It´s a massive place [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Puerto Iguazú after a 6 hour coach trip from Paraty to Sao Paulo then another 16 hours from Sao Paulo to Foz do Iguaçu... and yes we were tired! A short bus ride through border control and we were there! We had orginally planned to stay in Foz first then travel over but accommodation etc is so much cheaper on the Argentian side that a quick decision was made. After a bit of coming and going we found a hostel which was ok and so cheap in comparison to what we were used to in Brazil.. and bigger [View Full Entry]

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Hello again! :o) OK.... now for the Argentinien side! We arrived at our hostel in Argentina at midday on Thursday! It was still pouring with rain and the weather forecast looked better for Friday so we decided to postpone doing the waterfalls until then! The hostel was absolutely massive (240 beds!!) which was cool so there was lots to do and there were cheap dinner buffets every evening which was also really handy as the hostel was quite far away from town and we also didnt want to go out in the pouring rain again! While waiting to check in we [View Full Entry]

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