Timbo Posada Puerto Iguazu

Wow what a town! This is your typical, wee-town-out-of-the-cowboy-films type of place. Everywhere looks half started or half finished. The hostel is very cool and arty, there are 8 people in the room, it is clean and smack bang in the centre of the main street. There are only a few tarmaced roads, the rest range from cobbles to dirt tracks. The earth here is a deep red colour and everything is covered in red dust. The locals hang around sharing the Argentine national drink, yerba maté, basica...

The first day in Puerto Iguazu and it was such a lovely day we decided not to go to the falls until the folling day, this wasn´t such a good idea as there was expected heavy rain fall the following afternoon/evening unknown to us. We had an early start and arrived in the park about 9 it was a nice warm day and it states it could take up to 7 hours to view the entire park. We entered the park and were apparently one of the lucky ones and a toucan flew over us and landed in the tree above us, w...

Ich bin nun im äuss**sten Norden Argentiniens angekommen. Die Ankunft war ziemlich **schlagend. Drückende 40 Grad und eine un**bittliche Sonne begrüssten uns. Nahe Pu**to Iguazu liegt d** Nationalpark, in dem die gleichnamigen Wass**fälle, die Cataratas de Iguazu, liegen. Deswegen sind wir auch hi**. Gest**n haben wir den ganzen Tag im Park v**bracht und sind jeden möglichen Weg abgelaufen. Schon von weit h** konnte man ein leises Rauschen hören, dann Nebelschwaden, die aus dem Dschungel aufs...

Another long bus ride - this one was really bad - took us to the Northern tip of Argentina, to an area bordering Brazil and Paraguay. We weren’t sure of making this trip as it is a massive detour from our journey to Bolivia and Peru, but they say you haven‘t seen Argentina until you have seen the falls. The falls were amazing and a really nice place to spend our first wedding anniversary! To take in the full effect of the falls you have to see them from the Argentinean side an...

Monday

Well after almost 4 weeks of perfect arrangements and nothing ever late, something finally went wrong. Got up at 5:30 to get to airport for 8:30 flight to find it had been cancelled and I was now on the 11:30 flight instead. Could have been in bed for another 3 hours, but I had the chance to sit on the beach across the road from the airport and watch the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean. Beautiful morning.

Finally arrived at Puerto Iguazu which is the town on the Argentin...

The Iguazu Falls on the border of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina have been rated by most people we've met who've been there as one of the most amazing sights they've seen. Lonely Planet says 'stupendous!', 'awesome!' so we were fairly certain when we arrived at the Parque National de Iguacu in Brazil that our expectations were set way too high for a bunch of waterfalls! Luckily our gobs were well and truly smacked when we rounded a corner of the trail and there they were - WOW! And then we ro...

Very exciting to see jungle and feel tropical heat again. Wasting no time, we headed to the national park after lunch. First stop: the train to Gargantuas de Diablo (aka the upper part of the falls). Spent a wonderful afternoon enjoying the gushing water with darting swifts, swallows and martins. On our return stopped for bird-life and the multitude of butterflies. The next day we started with the Macuco trail to try and see some wildlife. Walked quietly, letting the few other tourists wizz p...

Eleanor Roosevelt once remarked, "poor Niagara" upon witnessing the Iguasu Falls. They are four times wider than Niagra Falls, and in total there are 275 falls to witness (although I am sure that many are not shown off, however I did not count). We tried to wake up early and get on the first bus to the falls, before the other tourists woke up. No matter how hard we tried, nether Andrew nor I accepted the ringing of our alarm clocks until 830. We were there by 930, accompanied by all the other...

After a 24 hour long bus journey we finally arrived in Foz de Iguazu (Brazil). We then had to get another bus to Puerto Iguazu (Argentina) as accommodation is about a 3rd cheaper on the Argentine side. The website for the hostel shows a luxurious swimming pool and garden which when we got there was pretttyy tiny and filthy Bit of an insult as it was baking hot and we had to sit around this rank pool wishing we could go in it! Went to the Brazilian side of the falls the day after we arrived wh...

Well we had a great bus trip over to Iguazu (after dramas at the border trying to get tash into argentina...long story so wont write about it now)....anyway, buses in Argentina are the best...they even top the buses in Turkey I have to say.... as we got served lunch, dinner and breakfast! On top of that we got to watch movies which were in English or at least had subtitles. plus the seats are super comfy...But the highlight of it all was the surprise BINGO game we played on the bus...yes that...