Blogs from Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina, South America - page 2

If there’s anything I miss about America, it’s the promptness of the airlines. I know we all say it’s bad, but we know nothing. I have now flown Aerolíneas Argentinas for 5 legs, and only 2 have been on time: the 2 international ones, to and from Chile. Everything domestic has been delayed. The worst part was today, our departure from Buenos Aires was delayed until 3:15 from the original 1:20 departure, after our flight from Santiago to BA was perfectly on time. Normally, I wouldn’t care about a 2 hour delay. That’s nothing. But there were 3 things irking me. this is not the airlines fault, but we had a horrendous server at the Hard Rock Cafe in the airport, and it was kind of annoying. We shouldn’t have to wait half an hour and ... read more

Hi, We arrived in Puerto Iguazu at around 0900, so only 1.5 hours late, and found our hostel Noelia quick enough, however, they made us wait till 1200 to check in so we caught up on the internet and I even had a swim…yes people it was 27 degrees up here so it was finally time to ditch the ski coat and bring out the flip flops!! So happy!!! The hostel also decided to add an extra 21% tax on to our 3 night total fee, which we found it hard to dispute in Spanish, so we just emailed hostel world instead to sort it out. Hostel world are saying we don’t have to pay it but the hostel is, so if we want to stay here then I guess we’ll have to pay it. Grrrrr. ... read more

We crossed the border effortlessly on Wednesday morning and are now in Argentina. It is quite remarkable that just crossing a bridge over the Rio Iguazu can make such a difference. Here in Puerto Iguazu it is so different to Foz on the Brazilian side; it is scruffier, noisier, street dogs everywhere, more expensive, Spanish speaking and the food is wonderful. No more boring plain rice and chips served with either chicken, fish or beef. Here the food has more flavour and there is more variety. Great! We are staying in a gorgeous boutique hotel, very smart with an en suite Jacuzzi. We thought we needed some pampering! The falls here are even more spectacular than on the Brazilian side; we didn´t think that was possible. The weather, however, isn´t very good at all. We were ... read more

Day 15 (06 March) to Day 19 (10 March) So leaving Buenos Aires, after watching a Tango show, eating steak and exploring the neighbourhoods, its not time to experience a long bus journey, I was advised to travel "Cama", so here goes. The bus journey up to Iguazu was very comfortable, my chair reclined the whole way back, it was like being in 1st class on an aeroplane. The snacks were strange but properly that's just me, (ham and cheese flavour cookies and pizza flavour ones). The main meal was alright (rice and chicken) the sides were again not to my taste but the fella sitting beside me was very excited when he saw I wasn't going to eat my desert pastry cake thing, so even though we didn't have a language in common, (I think ... read more

In Rio mussten wir um 2 aufstehen, da unser Flug um 5 Uhr ging. Davor mussten wir am Flughafen noch meinen Rucksack einwickeln lassen, da leider ein Reißverschluss gerissen ist. Zu unserer Überraschung waren wir Sky Priority, mussten also nichts für mein zusätzliches Gepäckstück zahlen, durften in die VIP Lounge (die um die Uhrzeit aber zu war) und hatten breitere Sitze. Nach 2 Stunden sind wir dann in Iguazú gelandet und es war herrlich, sich endlich wieder verständigen zu können, da hier ja alle Spanisch sprechen. Die Fahrt zu unserem Hostel hat ungefähr 15 Minuten gedauert und auf dem Weg dorthin konnte man bereits einige Blicke des Iguazú Nationalparks erhaschen. Um den restlichen Tag nicht nur mit Schlafen zu verbringen, haben wir uns entschieden, in ein nahe gelegenes Reservat zu fahren, wo Tiere aufgenommen und gepflegt ... read more