Las Ventanas Ciudad Del Este

... br>And thus began a long, dull journey. I managed to immediately leap onto a bus to the capital, Asuncion, which took a nice 6-7 hours. My original plan was to stop in the German Mennonite colony of Filadelfia for a day, just to see what it was like, but I decided I couldn't be bothered and instead got straight on another bus all the way to Santa Cruz in Bolivia. This journey, on an old and uncomfortable and non-airconditioned bus took about ...

... I can't think of enough superlatives to describe the place. You're just going to have to see it for yourselves. And please don't judge it by the quality of my photos - they really are quite terrible...<br><br>So anyway, after my day at the falls, I spent one more day lounging around eating nice food and applying (unsuccessfully) for some more jobs as I prepared myself for another trip... Yes, I was heading back to Paraguay.<br><br>ARRRRGGGGHHH!!!<br>

... while I'm in them. I have no swimming costume, the yellow peril pair have been used on bike maintenance after complaints from some readers! I thought they matched Suzy very well.<br>When we are wet enough we are landed at the base of one of the falls and have to climb a rugged path to the top and more fantastic views.<br>I stop for a snack and Coatis appear, we have been warned not to feed them but hey are insistent little critters!<br>After walking ...

Took the 24 hour bus ride from BsAs up NE to Iguazu Falls on the border of Brasil. Nice small town, but the definition of a tourist town...too expensive to spend more than couple days here. <br><br>Rained the first day we got in...so we caught up on sleep and hung out with our new friends at the hostel. Vino, dominoes, and cards. Good people. Paticularly bloke ...

... town of Ciudad del Este which exists it seems solely for the purpose of selling contraband. <br><br>We've got 2 hours to meander through the various electronic, clothes and cosmetics shops all of which seem to sell iPods, Head and Shoulders and dodgy fleeces. Somehow I think that buying the head and shoulders here and using it would lead to a lack of head on shoulders. The minute you step on to the streets ...

... on him, I legged it back to the bus:<br>Joe: Gary. Wake up. Steak buffet.<br>Gary: Yeeeeeeeep!<br>Joe: You hungry?<br>Gary: Nooooope...<br>Joe: You coming?<br>Gary: Yeeeeeep!<br>There was no chance of waking Egan up, so we got him a lolly.<br><br>Sat 04/07 - We got in to Foz de Iguacu at 0800....but coulnt figure out if it was 0900 here??? We didnt care enough to solve it so we got the driver to sign our ball and after he initially drew a smiley face on it and quite clearly took ...

... and parked up at immigration. We then took our paperwork into the office,they stamped our passports but when we enquired about the vehicles they just waved us through. All over in 5 minutes and then we drove into town, boy that was an eye opener,people everywhere lots of shouting and young boys begging for anything on offer, it is a major place for buying anything that has been ripped off. We parked up to get cash at the ATM and left to go to the ...

... was standing right next to me on the handrail and took an interest in the straps of my backpack and the zipper on my fleece. It was so cool! The toucans are beautiful and their beaks are fascinating; they are so large and so lightweight that they look plastic and completely artificial. <br><br>After thoroughly enjoying the Parque do Aves and our first day at the Falls, we hopped on the public bus back to our hostel, made our way across the border into ...

... to be had for other South Americans who pay over the odds in their own countries. There were also cheap DVS, clothes, facewash&#8230;.and some people who`d travelled from far to get there were greedily scooping up as much as anything as they could get&#8230;later we`d see many people smuggling goods on nightbuses from the Brazil/Paraguay border to other parts of Brazil and beyond. There were even holes in the bridge wire mesh walls where the border was ...

Wat een andere wereld weer! Na het Europese Argentinie, het tropische Brazilie en het rustige Uruguay, lijkt het wel alsof ik in freaking India beland ben. Wat een chaos, wat een gekte, wat geweldig! Welkom in Paraguay. Ik ben in Ciudad del Este (Lisenka bleef een dagje poedelen aan het zwembad in het hostel in Argentinie) en aangezien zowel de Brazilianen en de Argentijnen Paraguay als shopping heaven zien, is het hier echt een chaos van Paraguayanen die een extra buck ...