Del Rey Foz de Iguacu

... so but again a 16odd year old girl this time who takes care of the breakfeasts started to pump up the music a 7am. But I mean full blast cheesy Argentinian pop!! Got out of bed groaning after yesterdyas power cut that was it, we were moving hostel. We had breakfeast packed our bags and left. We went to ...

... punctuated with vigorous shouts. From the<br>restaurant we looked over the Armenian church. Later on we did some<br>research and discovered that there are 130,000 Armenians in Argentina. <br>The first wave of immigrants arrived in 1914 and 1915 during the<br>genocide back home. <br><br>We decided to get out and about and do a day trip from BA on Saturday. <br>We chose San Antonio de Areco, 113km northwest of BA and the centre of<br>gaucho culture. To our ...

... jointly built by Brazil and Parguay, is the biggest dam measured in energy production in the world. It delivers 20% of the electricity consumed in Brazil (180 million people) and 90% of the consumption in Paraguay. Construction took 20 years and cost over 6 billion US$. Looking at it from every angle makes you feel the size of an ant. The whole area is wonderfully set up, offering research facilities and conserving nature.<br><br ...

... br><br>The Lower Trail takes you to the the bottom of several of the waterfalls, which is a much more impressive experience. Seeing water fall away from you into the mist from the top is nice, but seeing it coming at you from below, with the spray in your face (and all over you) is very dramatic. One location in particular, at the closest point to the main flow, is situated so that you get the full effect of wind generated by the tumbling currents, and it can get quite strong ...

... border town of Foz do Iguacu. We`ve found the buses brilliant in South America - clean, efficient and comfortable - and we arrived feeling pretty good despite spending the equivalent of a flight from London to New Zealand in a lazy-e-boy. We decided to spend the rest of the day in Foz at the bird sanctuary. Now Renee and I could never be described as keen ornithologists, but we love a good chance to oogle at a Toucan or two, and this didn`t disappoint. Having massive ...

... breakfast buffets I've ever encountered at a hotel anywhere -- it's even mentioned as such in the Lonely Planet.<br><br>Well the afternoon of the day I arrived I took the public bus to the Brazilian side of the falls. Fortunately today was mostly sunny, but the clouds had started encroaching on the sun's hold of the sky so I had to time my photos accordingly. At first ...

... train ride to get into the main falls. The trains play the gorgeous (and often copied) soundtrack from the film, The Mission. If you have not seen this 1980´s film staring Jeremy Irons and Robert Deniro about the Jesuits and the Guarani in Colonial South America, do yourself the favor and rent it. I showed it several years to my students, and may feel inspired to show it again in the near future. The waterfalls are prominently featured and the cinematography is stunning ...

... border, pretty far away from our destination and not really knowing how to get there. To make things more complicated we found out that, in an action that could easily belong to the &#8220;Paco, master of disaster ...

... kept going! <br><br>Deeper and deeper under the falls, as we got wetter, and wetter, and wetter! <br><br>Thank God for my ear plugs, which took a bit of a battering but kept 90% of the water out, with an assist from my floppy hat that I ...