Apart Hotel Los Troncos Ii Puerto Iguazu

... The speedboat then sat off. Very quickly we were bombing along the river, passing more small waterfalls and little inlets. Soon we hit rapids, and the boat bounced up and down as we cut through them. Eventually after fifteen minutes or so we arrived at the the Devil´s Throat waterfalls in front of us and got a great close-up view. We then made a U-turn and went back to the San Martin waterfalls. It was calm before the storm indeed, as the driver (captain?!) slowed the engines to ...

... to the Argentine side where I spent 5 hrs walking around. The place is magnificent. I’m attaching a number of photos of the falls which are quite extraordinary. In some spots it felt like what it would be to stand over Niagra Falls—if it were 5x larger! The main sight on the Argentine side is “La Garganta del Diablo”—the devil’s throat. It is a “U” shaped fall that goes ...

... away on champers travelling in style! Who said this backpacker life was going to be easy! They also serve meals on board and its all included and there are also DVDs so hopefully they will be en ingles this time around.

Ror has come down with a cold now aswell so we are treating it with warm clothes, the equivalent of halls soother over here and the magic of Barrys Tea! I still have mine - can`t seem to shake it at all.

We had ...

... Puerto Iguazu. This place cooked up the best steak I have had in South America; better than the one we had in Mercado de Puerto in Montevideo! Accompanying us was Nuevotiempo, a three-man band of an old man singing and playing guitar and two younger guys on the keyboards. They were slightly heinous, but they loved what they were playing and were good at the tunes they played. They even had a lighted sign with their photos on it in front of the restaurant ...

... us instead, and then disappeared, never to be seen again. Well, the ´female guide´turned out to be a paying customer, a Bolivian woman who had lived in America most of her life. We felt terrible that they expected her to translate everything for us, but she was so sweet and did her best. We were also alarmed to find that there were 7 of us squashed into a 6 person jeep for 3 days, and the drivers´ wife who was meant to come with us as the cook had been replaced with a girl from ...

... of bird activity in the morning yielded a half-dozen new birds for me in this forest, plus our first monkeys of the trip, the Black Howler Monkey. Howler monkeys, like teenagers, spend 80% of their time sleeping and the rest of it being noisy and eating. As we apparently weren´t within the 20% of time, we had difficulties finding them, but once again the Israelis came to our rescue pointing out the sleeping monkeys. In this species, the machos (males ...

... douane, nous recevons un cachet de sortie de l'immigration argentine, le cachet d'entrée au Brésil n'est pas obligatoire pour une visite d'une journée. Une fois passé la frontière, on doit prendre un autre bus qui nous emmène directement au parc. Après avoir payé le droit d'entrée, le bus privé du parc nous dépose à un chemin qui longe la rivière d'où nous voyons l'ensemble des chutes. L'eau tombe de plusieurs dizaines de mètres tout le long d'une falaise ...

... a lot of walking around as well. You can see the falls from above, and really close. It is really impressive. We also went on a boat ride under the falls but after our episode in Costa Rica, we decided not to take any picture by fear of getting the camera wrecked a second time!! We then rushed to take the bus back to the hostel before getting the plane to Buenos Aires!!!

... we've seen and heard things like that happen in all of the cheaper hostels we´ve stayed at in South America. I wonder if the young Israelis have any idea how bad an image they present of their country, or if they care? It's really embarrassing. Anyways...

After showering, changing and ...

... walk around the old town to say goodbye.

We walked down the tree-lined streets...



...to the main square with its ruins...



...to the basillica, with its white walls contrasting nicely ...