Mirante Hotel Foz de Iguacu

... off (the preferred option for Mr Harris, my driving instructor, when his car "rubbed" up against another while i was behind the wheel!) Oh no...not slow Joe .... he carries on at 10 mph as if nothing has happened! Our driver stops and starts to chase him when ..... BANG! GUNSHOT! Yeah! Totally unconnected to our accident but still! WTF! <br><br>Anyway, got to BA, loving it, loving Argentina, will update you all on that soon! Cant be ***** right now!<br><br>

... it a good go. We ventured onto a walkway right over the Falls where you just get absolutely soaked, it was so much fun, just have to watch the camera doesnt get too fogged up. <br>The next day went to the Argentinian side, got another stamp in the passport, it was only about an hour trip to the National Park where we then took a truck ride down to the waters edge to begin out speedboat ride. The boat goes right up to the falls, you ...

... t have a whole day on the day we arrived, we decided to go to the Itaipu Dam in Brazil. This dam is the world's largest, 8km wide, 65 storeys high, and holds enough water for 4000 litres for every single person on the planet (now THAT'S a lot of water!). A contraversial decision when the project was started in the 1970s (it took 16 years and 100,000 people to build), as it flooded a virgin rainforest valley and many tribal villages ...

... some Spanish and Portuguese (i stopped at Chinese however) but although find it ok to get by ordering food and drink or asking for directions, conversing is a different matter. I can ask how someone what someone´s impression of the current political and economic situation in Spain is right now but that only gets you so far... Also, no one seems to know my name, reckon automatically it´s Russell, eventually i let it go (even though they pronounce it ´Roos-eel ...

... an awesome buffet for $45 pesos. Highly recommend it if you ever make it out that way. I usually don't get my money's worth at a buffet but we were all starving! I made it all the way around that buffet had a few seconds AND then still hit the dessert table YUM!<br><br>After that we grabbed some beers went and hung out in the room Shuan, Ashley and Tiffany were in and we traded pics and watched our video. Tomorrow would be the start of our long journey back home. :(<br>

... to the Argentinian park again. We started with a fairly easy trail which weaved in and out of the waterfalls and let us wander a bit in the rainforest. The weather was really hot, but the cool breeze and spray of the waterfalls made it a refreshing and exhilarating walk. Following our wander we hopped on the train to the "Devils Throat" waterfall. We had seen it from the Brazilian side - a horseshoe shaped area of the falls with lots of layers and twists ...

From Cordoba we took a 20 hour bus to Peurto Iguazu, base for the Iguazu waterfalls - one of the big natural specticals of Argentina. A wander of the streets and we check into a hostel and make plans for visiting the falls. Here you have the choice, you can visit the Argentinain side, take a half day out and visit the Brazilian side or take a full day out and go to Paraguy to see the view from there. You speak to the Argentinians and they are ...

... was a postcard-perfect setting of green trees, rocks, thundering bridalveils and a rainbow cutting across the sky. And on this picture perfect day, I forgot to charge my camera batteries and was down to a little juice on my sole charged battery! Nonetheless, my battery conservation method was successful and we were able to snap photos of every angle we needed. <br><br>Once we completed the circuit, we hopped on the short boat ride to Isla San Martin, which ...

... technically. Thursday, 6:30 pm, we get into the bus which will take us from Sao Paulo to Iguazu. We will be there very fast, just 14 hours. Friday, 8:30am, we arrive in Foz de Iguazu, brazilian city in the border with easy ...

... see how GREEN this part of the country is.<br><br> <br><br>It seemed like every few steps there was a thunderous channel of water to admire...<br><br> <br><br>...ok, make that a number of thunderous channels!<br><br> <br><br>Again we ...