Iguazu Falls Having arrived in Argentina, I checked into the hostel and asked about tours of the falls for the afternoon. The clerk said the best was to do the Brazil side first, as that took only 3 hrs, whereas the Argentine side took 6 hrs. So for $20 a taxi picked me up, took me back into Brazil and to the park, then picked me up 3 hrs later and back to the hostel. My first views of the falls were astounding. I thought¨. "It can´t get better than this". Well, it did. There was a cliff side walk which [View Full Entry]

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We love waterfalls!!! They seriouslly have to be the MOST amazing thing that nature has to offer (well except for sea lions who nibble on your flippers when you snorkel with them)! Seventeen hours on a bus turned out to be not so bad (thanks to the complimentary champagne, whiskey and Robin Williams going on an RV trip with his family). We had heard GREAT things about a place called "Hostel Inn" (creative, isn't it??), so we hopped into a cab and 10 pesos later, arrived at the worst hostel SA has to offer. Except for the monsterous swimming pool (which [View Full Entry]

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Well we took the flight from Buenos Aires and arrived in Puerto Iguazu which is located on the border of three countries - Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Again it is such a change of scenery from the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires. This is a small town which has barely any real roadways in the centre of it. All it has is red dust for roadways and when it rains, it is like red/orange water running down the street. Well we got to the hostel - we had arranged that they would pick us up at the airport but when [View Full Entry]

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What an amazing place.. I was worried that the falls would be an anticlimax after all the rave reviews I'd heard, but they surpassed all my expactations.. And we found great accomodation with a pool.. Hostel Inn Iguazu [View Full Entry]

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So, apparently, there is this urban legend theory that says that negative ions, which can be generated by waterfalls, make people happy. The legend is myth, but I´m happy to say, the falls of Iguazu National Park are truly spectacular. What´s more, the wildlife of the park was up front and amazing. I´m sure that to a certain degree, to a local, not all of the things I saw were that great. For example, the coatis, which are little pig/racoon items, were amazing and interesting to me. However, since they were to be found often in eating areas and garbage cans, [View Full Entry]

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Back in Argentina Just as we were leaving Uruguay a big storm hit the Rio Uruguay area so we abandoned our original plan of going to Concordia and Colon; instead we travelled further inland to Parana, on Argentina´s longest river, Rio Parana. The bus from Concordia to Parana was great - we travelled in Cama class which, despite reclining seats, movies, food and drink, is apparently only the third best class of bus in Argentina. I can´t wait to try the others! Argentina seems to have gone rugby mad since we left. The soccer authorities even changed the start time of [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday (09/10/07)we had a lazy day. We went to the bank and sorted out photos, blogs etc. But the rest of the day we chilled out by the pool and then played volleyball before swimming and other fun pool stuff. We met some Aussie guys, Chris, Rich, Jason and Dan. Dan has promised to do Sydney bridge with us when we get there as he will be home by then. Its a deal. We had also been to a supermarket and so cooked up some pasta slop (first meal weve cooked since we left ha ha) which was really surprisingly nice. [View Full Entry]

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Argentina is so yaaaay!!! We love it! [View Full Entry]

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Buenos Aires, Uruguay and Iguazú - 15 September to 30 September 2007 After a night on the plane and a short stopover in Santiago, Chile, we arrived in Buenos Aires ready for anything. We were bemused by the blasé attitude of Argetine customs who waved us through as if they were surprised and even mildly irritated to see us, even though they'd made us fill out all the forms! We then avoided all the calls of 'taxi? taxi!' and ran for the bus to our hostel in the San Telmo area, so our long trip down to South America started with [View Full Entry]

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Many years ago, my friend Judith introduced me to the concept of "The Ultimate (insert destination name here) Experience." It's that moment, usually serendipitous, that defines the essence of a trip. Last night, I had my ultimate Argentina experience. I was walking home from dinner around 11pm in this "frontier town" of Puerto Iguazu, which, since the currency crisis a few years ago, has been built entirely upon tourism to the incredible waterfalls on the border of Argentina and Brazil. While many of the tourists are American and European, many more are from Argentina or other Latin America [View Full Entry]

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