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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Water! We need it. Scientists now estimate that we could be up to 8% water or something. And it's scarce! That's right, go turn the tap off, we need it for things as vital and diverse as: * Washing the cat * Making milk out of milk powder * Showering after getting covered in paint when painting the garage door (though you may want to use White Spirit first). Yes, it´s important stuff alright, and it's running out. And here´s why: A dirty great hole in the very fabric of the earth's upper mantley crust in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay (it´s [View Full Entry]

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Any weekend that starts out with nearly being kicked out of an airport Duty Free Shop is bound to be fun no matter what else happens. If they don't want you to take pictures of yourself trying on hats, they should post a sign, really. Anyhow, I spent the last weekend with my friend Sebastian in the semi-tropical rainforest that is the province of Missiones. Missiones is home to Iguazu National Park, the site of the largest waterfalls in the world. We arrived in time for dinner on Friday. The hotel was much nicer than I had imagined. The best part [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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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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Dag allemaal, Nog 3 maanden te gaan om precies te zijn en dan zijn we weer thuis en dan wordt alles weer normaal. Maar op dit moment zijn we nog steeds aan het genieten!! We zijn op 11 mei vertrokken vanuit Rio(Brazil) naar Buenos Aires(oftewel B.A.)Argentina.We hadden in B.A.een apartementje gehuurd voor 2 weken.De kosten waren gelijk aan een 2 persoonskamer in een hostel en daarom keken we op verschillende sites voor andere mogelijkheden.Het is een leuke ervaring om een apartementje te hebben in B.A.Hier hadden we van alles,t.v.,dvd,airco,badkamer,koelkast of met andere woorden:helemaal compleet!! We zaten in een wijk wat bekend [View Full Entry]

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I love Iguazu falls! It is brilliant and beautiful and wonderful and fabulous!!!! I was especially excited about visiting them as I´d just seen Indiana Jones go over them in the new film! The falls themselves are on the border of Argentina and Brazil, so you can visit on both sides. Although I was in Argentina, I visited the Brazilian side first as the general consensus seemed to be that if you visited it 2nd then you were a bit disappointed after the Argentinian side. The weather in Brazil was a bit rubbish to start off with, then eventually the sky [View Full Entry]

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From other travellers, I've heard anything between "It´s the most beautiful thing I've ever seen" and "It's just a couple of waterfalls, why do you want to go there?". I found myself to be somewhere in between: it's probably not the most beautiful thing I've ever seen (although just now, I can't think what the most beautiful thing I've seen is - maybe I'm just hard to impress) - but it is definitely beautiful, impressive, powerful, impressive. And it is definitely just huge. I´m adding some pictures, but pictures just never express it right - I would totally recommend going yourself! [View Full Entry]

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