Blogs from Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil, South America - page 9

What an incredible way to from be introduced to a country. It's not only the size of Iguazu Falls which astonishes you it is the power and relentlessness. It's difficult to imagine without seeing it. The water is idly drifting down the Iguazu River and then it is suddenly thrown down one of the 275 individual waterfalls. We arrived in to Sao Paulo from London yesterday and had to wait seven hours for our connecting flight to Foz do Iguacu. Considering we have an 18 hour bus journey from Puerto Iguazu (Argentina) to Buenos Aires tomorrow evening we were quite relieved to be flying from Sao Paulo to the falls. So a mere 22 hours after leaving the UK we arrived at our hostel, Paudimar Campestre, on the outskirts of Foz do Iguacu. Paudimar is a ... read more

Ja moin, Ich bin mittlerweile in Brasilien. Habe bei Foz de Iguazu die Grenze ueberquert und mir natuerlich die Wasserfaelle von Iguazu angeschaut. Ziemlich viel Wasser und fast genauso viele Menschen. Man laeuft auf Wegen und Bruecken an den Wasserfaellen vorbei. Also absolut idiotensicher und wenig anstrengend, ergo Menschenmassen ohne Ende. War teilweise echt nervig und es war schwierig die Wasserfaelle und die Aussicht zu geniessen. Auf einer Aussichtsplattform wurde ich von einer Argentinierin darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass ich im Weg stehe und weggehen sollte, weil sie ein Foto machen wollte. Ich habe sie dann darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass sie mich mal Arsch lecken kann und warten kann bis ich keine Lust mehr habe dort zu stehen. Schon manchmal praktisch, wenn man spanisch kann. Aber sind schon echt eindrucksvolle Dinger, muss man zugeben. Ich bin dann ... read more

The following five days went by without much excitement at all. Our main ambition was to use our time finding a new camera, which unfortunately was without success as we were stranded in Paraty, an expensive tourist town, then realised how expensive electronics were in Brazil, even in Sao Paulo. A brief account of these days precede the real blog. Someone was still out to get us when we arrived into Paraty from Rio. As we had changed our bus at such late notice we had been unable to book any accomodation. It was around 10pm when we arrived, so we sauntered into the nearest internet cafe and started writing down the addresses of hostels we could try. We asked the nearest taxi how much he was charging to Che Legarto hostel, he said 15 reais. ... read more

Vandaag part 2 van het bezoek aan het N.P. van Iguazu. Even de grens over van Brazil met als eerste stop het Parque das Aves. Hier hebben we de lokale fauna dus eens van dichtbij gezien ;-), inclusief de papegaai op men schouder en de wurgslang rond de nek ;-) Daarna brachten we een bezoek aan de Itaipu-dam, 2e grootste in de wereld voor de helft eigendom van Paraguay en Brazilië (Brazilië koopt dan op zijn beurt weer elektriciteit terug van Paraguay), heeft blijkbaar n paar keer het debiet van de Iguacu watervallen.. Met een busje reden we over en onder de dam door, interessante excursie! :-) Na een al-you-can-eat-eetfestein, gingen we naar het park zelf, waar we een overzicht hadden over de watervallen waar we gisteren bij hebben gestaan.. weer veel spray dus kleddernat geworden.. ... read more

After arriving in Foz De Iguacu at 8am Monday we were at a loss what to do as it was a little early to check into the hostel and we wanted to enquire about how to get to a place called Bonito that had been recommended to us. A tour agency had just the sign outside so we went in and after about an hour had booked a tour for the Argentinean side of the falls for the next day and said we would meet one of the employees later to arrange other things. Feeling pretty wounded from the overnight bus, Sam especially so as he cant sleep on buses we had a short rest at the hostel then got a bus to the Brazilian side of the Iguacu falls. From the visitor centre a bus ... read more