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Published: March 24th 2012
Dear family and friends,
Iguazu Falls was amazing. After visiting the Brazilian side of the falls, we made it across the border and into Argentina. This involved long waits on the side of the road, however we were in no rush. We stayed in Porto Iguazu for a few days and the highlights included; eating great steak, eating cheap ice creams and chilling out with our good friends Mike, Tamsin, Ross, Donna and Bobby. On one of these days paul was savagely attacked by a vicious pack, of what could have been mistaken as wolves, but were actually chuawas. He was then bitten on the face by bed bugs...poor guy!!!
The next day our crew decided to go into Paraguy and buy cheap electronics. The bus didnt stop at the border, so we had to walk back to the border and try and get our passports stamped. It turns out Aussies need visas to enter Paraguy, but with some basic spanish and wild hand gestures, we explained that we only wanted to enter his country for one day. The custom offical refused to stamped our passports but was obviously sick of us taking up his sleeping time
and ushered us into his country illegally. Paraguy was pretty crazy and you could buy guns, mass electronics and a whole range of black market goods. As our motto is "out crazy the crazys", we did exactally that and our crew fled back to Argentina with a Guitar, laptop and ipad.
The next day Francis turned up, so we gather up and cameras and headed out to see the Argentinian side of Iguazu Falls............AMAZING!!!!!!!! Words and photos cannot describe what we saw and everyone was honestly a little changed after this experience. See the pics.
After a night with no shower, no toilet and a heated discount argument, we said our goodbyes to Mike and Tamsin. Miss you guys. We then jumped on a bus heading towards Bolivia. Another 18hr bus ride!! We ended up in Salta, where we stayed the night. We checked out a really cool museum that had the bodies of children who were buried alive at the top of the Andes by the Incas. Because of the altitude their bodies were totally preserved. Pretty cool. Finally we made it to the bolivian border and then jumped on a train and cruised up
to the town of Tupiza (3000 meters above sea level). Watching the environment change from Iguaza to Bolivia was really interesting. We have to go now but we will blog you soon!!!
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FrancEs Wright
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Paulo... francEEEEEEEEs. I am not (and have never been) a male. now we have that covered...nice blog. im about to do mine. chao!