Blogs from Misiones, Argentina, South America - page 85

The first thing I noticed after landing in Puerto Iguazu was the stifling heat. It was quite hot in Buenos Aires but it was much hotter here and the humidity was awful. Once again I was clueless when it came to directions and spent about half an hour wandering through town trying to find my hostel. As before, after sweating my way to the hostel, I found that it was actually quite close to the where I´d been dropped off. Hopefully my powers of navigation will be restored soon. I´m not sure how suited I am to the hostelling thing these days. Maybe it´s my age. I checked into the 8 bed dorm but on entering the room, the smells eminating from everyones belongings was rather unpleasent. The combination of sweat, heat and humidity did not ... read more

To quote Lonely Planet the Iguazu falls are not your average "isn’t gravity nice" type of waterfalls. This one is bigger, better and wider than all the waterfalls I've seen so far combined. Apparently there are close to 300 falls with up to 80 meters height spread out over 2km. As one tourist brochure claims 1.2 million liters of water run over the falls ever second. The waterfalls (the river to be exact) are also the border between Argentina and Brazil which gives both sides the opportunity to extract money out of your pocket. The Argentinean side gives you access to more waterfalls and has more walks (most of the close ups of the small waterfalls are from there) but the Brazilian side has the better overview. The legend has it that the falls were ... read more

11 hours on the bus, to the middle of nowhere, even off the Lonely Planet radars.... read more

¡Hola chicos! Well, this is going to be a very short update, because I am VERY tired...it is 10:38 here, 11:38 in Brasil, and who knows in Estados Unidos. Our flights here went basically without a problem. The Continental flight from Houston to BA was actually reasonably comfortable, with our own personal screens with a choice of movies and even video games.The only slight hitch was we were about a half hour late getting out of Houston, so a half hour late getting into Buenos Aires, and it took FOREVER to get thorough customs. It took so long to get our passports stamped that they didn´t even look at our luggage. In any case, we still managed to change airports and make our afternoon flight to Iguazu. Argentina has a lot of cars and drivers for ... read more

On our way to the airport we read in the lonely planet that the summers in northern argentina can be brutal, since we have arived this morning after a 12 hour bus ride we got to see first hand just how brutal it can be.. it´s somwhere in the 100´s right now and the humidity is relentless. We all have bright red sholders after walking around the falls today...and I cant sum them up any other way that truley AWSOME, they are amazing but you get drenched just standing there looking at them, so i did not get a chance to snap the pictures with my digital camera although i took a movie of it. So the photos I have included are from the last few nights two from the fall and the one of janine ... read more