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South America » Argentina » Misiones » Puerto Iguazú April 26th 2005

Day 6 - Night Bus to Iguazu: Despite some initial apprehension about the impending length of our journey, the bus trip to the Puerto Iguazu wasn´t too hard. The time had passed reasonably quickly - the movies shown on the overhead televsion were better than what we had seen on the plane ride from Canada to Argentina. Dina was able to keep herself entertained by speaking with some of the other people on board, in Spanish, while I attempted unsuccessfully to get some sleep. There was a young fellow sitting directly to the right of us, whom Dina spoke to for a while. She later told me that he was from Paraguay - his job was buying/selling items in BA, and transporting items back to his town, near the falls, for resale. Our travel guide (rough ... read more
El Gumbe

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Puerto Iguazú April 12th 2005

- Area: The wonders of Iguazú falls - STUNNING. Puerto Iguazú is small but friendly and feels very safe. - People: Not many around. Sterotypical hostel types. - Weather: Boiling hot and very humid. But it hadn´t stormed like in Uruguay so the falls were not at their best. Tue 12th: .... awoke from my deep sleep on the bus at 7am to see everyone else getting off the bus. Bus driver looked relieved he didn´t have to wake me. Dazed and confused, I was grateful for the information woman who gave me lots of info about the national park, waterfall tours and hostels. I had no money and no home so it felt very strange wandering the streets that early with nothing but my rucksack. It was boiling hot even at that time. Found the ... read more

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Posadas March 31st 2005

Nous sommes en mode cuisson lente (33 C à l'ombre), à Posadas, capitale de la province de Misiones. Ici, tout est rouge. C'est la couleur de la terre, et tout prend cette teinte. Nous venons de passer deux jours à Puerto Iguazu, à 300 km au nord de Posadas. Nous y avons visité les chutes Iguazu, un site extraordinaire, déclaré patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO, en 1984. En voyant ces chutes, Eleanor Roosevelt (je pense que c'est elle...) se serait écriée pauvre Niagara. Elle avait raison. Il n'y a pas de comparaison possible. C'est à couper le souffle. Encore une fois, Marmotte s'en est donnée à coeur joie dans la nature, faisant copain-copain avec quelques coatis et un ou deux vautours. Le site est aussi abondamment peuplé de papillons de toutes les couleurs. Nous en avons même ... read more


OK so the 22 hours turned into 25 trying to get from Rio to Foz. The most frustrating is that there are no road signs so the only sign you have that you might be close is that Iguacu starts to appear on lots of names of shops etc as you pass through the villages. We got to Foz in the early afternoon. We had by then figured out that the fastest way to get where we wanted to go to next was via Argentina. Soooo slight problem as obviously the Brazilians have no idea as to the bus schedules in Argentina. The one bus company operating in Foz could offer us a ticket arriving at Concordia at 3 am in the morning and from what I could understand it really was a road side drop ... read more

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Iguazú National Park January 26th 2005

Who would have thought it could get any better? From the Argentian Side (and did my first border cross today!) saw even bigger falls, and rode through them, around them, underneath them on a speedboat! We took front seat and yelled for more, to the dismay of the poor elderly American couple wearing rain coats, with the bizaare preconception that they would not be getting ¨this¨ wet! Utterly amazing.. We set off for a compulsory part of our package, the bird park.. But this was so much more than a bird park! We walked in and amongst the biggest parrots I have ever seen, elegant flamingos and cute toucans! Managed to practice my Spanish on a giggling parrot, and could have spent hours in a butterfly house with humming birds.. Have managed to control my urge ... read more
toucan II
toucan III
Dan and toucan

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Iguazú National Park January 20th 2005

Ten of us took a wonderful trip to Iguassu Falls and the Argentina rain forest with a fascinating stay at Yacutinga Lodge. I arranged the trip with Adventure Life Vacations. We had wonderful guides on the trip who enhanced our visit with their history and nature knowledge of the area. We stayed at the Sheraton Iguassu that was adjacent to the Argentina side of the falls, where most of the falls are located. The hotel was comfortable and had a couple of nice restaurants. We also enjoyed the outdoor patio that provided a view of the falls. We spent one day hiking to all of the falls area, and then took the short boat ride across to Devil's Island, which allowed an up close view of the falls. We spent another day taking the jet boat ... read more
Iguassu Falls
Iguassu Falls
Rainforest


Truly a natural wonder of the world, I know of no falls more beautiful or impressive than those at Iguazú - read on and take a look at the pictures. aaaaah...paradise We flew from Cordoba to Iguazu and really struck gold from the moment we stepped off the plane. Iguazu has turned out to be pretty much our idea of paradise, great location, great hostel (with an amazing pool) and gorgeous weather. We set off to the park the morning after we arrived bright and early, we were able to catch a bus right outside the hostel. The entrance to the park has something of a theme park feel to it but in the least tacky way possible. They make walking through jungle easy and provide walkways right out to the falls but none of it ... read more
Sarah with Salto San Martin in the background
Salto Bernabé Mendez and a bit of Mbigua
The 2nd Biggie - San Martin

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Iguazú National Park October 20th 2003

It's not easy getting to Ushuaia, dear reader, which is the southernmost city in the world. Particularly when you travel overland on the bus from Santiago in Chile, now that's some commute! But the journal continues, and I'm glad to have made it. The city itself is spectacular as you stroll around the beautifully paved streets, while surrounded by a backdrop of snow capped mountains. The sights include taking in the gorgeous harbour which serves as the starting point for cruise ships setting sail for the final frontier of Antarctica. Ushuaia is without a doubt a unique travel destination and you can't help smiling as you walk around the city, because on this beautiful planet of ours this is truly the end of the road. It's just not possible to travel any further south and still ... read more
Downtown street, Ushuaia
Overview of Iguazu Falls
The Lake at Bariloche

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Iguazú National Park September 18th 2003

Puerto Iguazú forms a natural balcony that looks to Brazil over the inferior Iguazu and the Paraguay rivers through the Alto Paraná. From the city you can take different excursions and visits to the Iguazú National Park and the Iguazu Falls which are considered being one of the Seven Wonders of the World due to their natural magnificence and their wonderful vegetation, astounding those who have the possibility of getting in contact with them. There is nothing to be compared with Cataratas del Iguazú (Iguazú Falls) because they are incredible. They have 250 spectacular falls that weigh 70 meters and they are connected to the Iguazú River which originates 1300 meters above the sea level and flows into the Paraná River only to 90 meters. My advice is to explore the place by you. We took ... read more
Falls
Falls
Falls

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Iguazú National Park October 17th 2002

17 DE OCTUBRE DE 2002 No encuentro mejor metáfora, una explicación más contundente y hermosa que ésta, sobre la relación entre el agua y la vida. A diez mil metros de altura, el Sahara se aprecia feroz y abrupto, graves gargantas de corrientes desaparecidas que bajan hacia ningún lado, vacío de vida, sepultura de hombres y animales perdidos. Ahí, en medio de la muerte, aparece el Nilo, largo, serpenteante, y siempre bordeado por ese hermoso acompañante verde que a veces lo sigue a ambos costados, otras (las más) por el izquierdo, y otras por el derecho. Se estrecha irregularmente, o se ensancha hasta multiplicar por quince o veinte el alcance vital del río. Por milenios, en el verano, el Nilo inundó las márgenes bajas de su cuenca llenándolas de limo, el riquísimo alimento que traía desde ... read more
La maravilla del Nilo
El Nilo en su contexto
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