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By MariaS ntti
November 26th 2009

IGUASSUN PUTOUKSET 23.-26.11.2009 South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu » Iguaçu National Park

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IGUASSUN PUTOUKSET 23.-26.11.2009 Kartasta katsottuna Rio de Janeiro ja Sao Paolo näyttävät olevan ihan vierekkäin, mutta nelikaistaisella moottoritiellä tuhatta ja sataa ajaneelta bussilta meni kuitenkin viisi tuntia päästä perille. Kaksi tuntia tuhraantui Sao Paolon ruuhkissa. Foz do Iguaçun putouksetkin näyttävät olevan ihan lähellä mutta sinne kesti ajaa hyvää moottoritietä kahdeksantoista tuntia, joten koko matka kesti kaksikymmentäviisi tuntia. Nyt on nähty noin yksi prosentti koko maasta. Ja se mitä on nähty, on vaurasta, hyvin hoidettua maaseutua satoja ja taas satoja kilometriä. [View Full Entry]

By amatth11
November 8th 2009

Just a small shower South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu

The main form of transport in south america is the road.. So the long distance buses are actually quite something - the bus to Sao Paulo was better than most national express coaches, and the one onward was like business class, minus the champagne, of course! The first part of the trip meant following the coast for a couple of hours, all the while eying up the near cliff like sides of the coast mountains. Eventually the road made a break for it, with lots of hairpins and shear drops. Strangely we didn't seem to drop back down on the other [View Full Entry]

By jo et jon
October 29th 2009

Foz Do Iguazu, grandioooooozzzzzz South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu » Iguaçu National Park

les chutes du cote brezilien

Salut les amis, Apres avoir passee deux jours de reve sur l´Ilha do Mel, nous avons repasser une nuit a Curitiba pour pouvoir ensuite prendre le train de nuit direction Foz do Iguazu, a la frontiere Bresil-Argentine-Paraguay, comme cetait un long voyage (plus ou moins 10 heures de route) nous avons decide, d´un commun accord bien entendu, que nous prendrions le bus de nuit. Donc apres avoir passe une journee de plus a Curitiba, ma foi fort agreable, nous avons pris le bus a 22h15, un trajet qui passa tres vite puisque nous (enfin surtout moi) avons dormi toute la nuit, [View Full Entry]

By Lizzy and Rick
October 22nd 2009

Iguazu Falls South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu » Iguaçu National Park

What a view

So it´s 7:30am, Friday 2nd October (Day 26) and we´re at the bus station at Paraty waiting for a bus to take us back to Sao Paulo. The bus departs at 8:30am and we arrive in Sao Paulo for 3pm. Once there we were hoping to able to jump straight on the bus to the Iguazu Falls but unfortunately the next one wasn´t until 6:30pm. During the wait we tried a Bob´s Burger which is basically like a McDonalds, however it was the most disgusting burger we´d ever eaten and also one of the most expensive! The bus journey was 16 [View Full Entry]

By A Travel Story
October 12th 2009

Cruising Iguazu Falls, Brazil South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu

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Last night we got off a plane in Iguaçu Falls in Brazil after 33 hours of traveling from Delhi. We are in a town called Foz do Iguaçu in the Brazilian state of Paraná, and tomorrow we will be on the Argentine side of the falls in a town called Puerto Iguazú. After checking in at our hotel, we walked three blocks where we found a strip of restaurants. They were all watching the soccer match between Brazil and Bolivia on large screen TVs. It is a very small town servicing tourists viewing the falls. Everyone was sitting outside cafe style [View Full Entry]

By David on tour
September 20th 2009

Iguacu Falls 2 - Days 7-8 South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu » Iguaçu National Park

Iguacu Falls - Argentina

After a good nights sleep in the hostel, it was time to visit the Argentinian side of the falls and at last the sun was out. On this side you could get up very close, there were two routes - one across the bottom of the falls and one at the top culminating in the Gargantua Diablo - the Devils throat, which is a crescent shaped drop where most of the water flows. I spent all day at the falls and they were truly mesmerising, the photos don't do justice to the power of the falling water so I have included [View Full Entry]

By David on tour
September 18th 2009

Iguacu Falls - Day 6 South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu » Iguaçu National Park

Iguacu Falls - Brazil

I was travelling all night on two separate flights to get to Foz de Iguassu and arrived in the middle of a thunderstorm, it continued to rain all morning. From the airport I had to get 2 local buses to travel initially to the Brazilian town of Foz de Iguacu from where I caught another bus to the Argentinian town of Puerto Iguazu, everything in Argentina is half the price as in Brazil, plus it is a nicer place to stay. The hostel I was staying in was the MarcoPolo Inn, right opposite the bus station for 5 pound a night [View Full Entry]

By babyape
September 4th 2009

Iguacu - From both sides, and above, and below South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu » Iguaçu National Park

Nice

Iguacu Falls... where to start, what a place. The drive down was a corker, 5am till 9pm. The hostel was great, we were camping, but for a pound a night, you could upgrade.... yes please, we'd be there for 4 days, so camping might get boring, nice dorm with 6 of us in & private bathroom was spot on! It was late when we arrived so we just ordered bar food at the hostel and hit the beers, then the Cuba Libres, which are served stronger than i've ever seen before, almost three quarters of pure rum, nice. Great night, and [View Full Entry]

By OneWaySupertramp
August 18th 2009

The Power of Water - Iguacu and Itaipu South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu

First glimpse of the falls from Brazil

I have a distinct memory as a child sitting at our kitchen table in Moymet watching Tarzan on tv, on what I think were Saturday afternoons. It was always in black and white. In the show there was a big set of waterfalls in the jungle and the huge falls always seemed to trigger my imagination. I was a seven year old kid once more as the Iguacu mist dampened my face. There are two sides of the falls to visit - the Brazilian side and the Argentinian side. We had based ourselves in the town of Foz do Iguacu on [View Full Entry]

Brazil is on my left and Paraguay is on my right

By MWCJunkie
July 23rd 2009

Fuzzy and farcical in Foz South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu

Thursday. Up early again to catch the 7:30 a.m. bus to Foz do Iguacu, which our Chaco busmate Sondra (a young Dutch woman on her way to three months on a Brazilian dairy farm, after an advanced degree in soils science!) had put us on to. Good thing, too, because most of the buses go to the Argentina side and we didn’t want to be bothered with that. A six-hour trip rolling through southern Paraguay, so much greener than Chaco that it’s rather beautiful despite the obvious poverty here. With shades like PEI’s: rich red earth, green hills, blue skies. Villages [View Full Entry]

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