On December 26th we left Buenos Aires. We’d been living there for over 3 months but we felt the time was right to do some traveling. So we took a bus from Buenos Aires to Iguazu. It was going to take 18 hours so this time we went for a “Super Cama” bus. It was expensive but everyone had said to try it at least once in Argentina and they were right. Each person has a bed and a television and you get served dinner with wine then champagne and whisky before bed and then breakfast in the morning.
The waterfalls in Iguazu are amazing. I took some photos and videos but they don’t really express how amazing the place is. We spent 8 hours in the park exploring the waterfalls, taking a boat to the island and a train to the other end of the park.
The following day we went to Brazil to see the waterfalls from their side. Again they were amazing but slightly different to the Argentine side. On the Brazil side you had a really good view and lots of photo opportunities whereas on the argentine side you had the opportunity to get close to the waterfalls and the surrounding widlife. At times the landscape reminded me of the movie Avatar.
When we waned to leave Brazil we had a small problem with our passports because we didn’t have a stamp to say we’d entered Brazil. We had taken the public bus to Brazil and it didn’t stop at passport control but the bus we took back did! As a result of this we ended up missing the bus and the next one was going to be more than half an hour. So we decided to walk, it wasn’t that far. It took us about an hour to walk to the Argentine border control. There was a great view from the bridge that you wouldn’t really get to see from the bus.
The next day we went to Brazil again but this time we went to Cuidad del este in Paraguay. This is a place where many people from Brazil and Argentina go to buy things. It reminded me of Bangkok or other cities in Asia. We had dinner in a restaurant and then walked from Paraguay to Brazil this time crossing another bridge that is know as the ‘friendship bridge’.
The waterfalls in Iguazu are amazing. I took some photos and videos but they don’t really express how amazing the place is. We spent 8 hours in the park exploring the waterfalls, taking a boat to the island and a train to the other end of the park.
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| Iguazu falls |
The following day we went to Brazil to see the waterfalls from their side. Again they were amazing but slightly different to the Argentine side. On the Brazil side you had a really good view and lots of photo opportunities whereas on the argentine side you had the opportunity to get close to the waterfalls and the surrounding widlife. At times the landscape reminded me of the movie Avatar.
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| Iguazu looking like Avatar |
When we waned to leave Brazil we had a small problem with our passports because we didn’t have a stamp to say we’d entered Brazil. We had taken the public bus to Brazil and it didn’t stop at passport control but the bus we took back did! As a result of this we ended up missing the bus and the next one was going to be more than half an hour. So we decided to walk, it wasn’t that far. It took us about an hour to walk to the Argentine border control. There was a great view from the bridge that you wouldn’t really get to see from the bus.
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| Argentina/Brazil Border |
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| Brazil/Argentina Border |
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| Brazil/Paraguay Border |
savage falls dude, seems like you are getting around anyhow, but being in two countries at once is kinda cheating :-p
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