Saint George Puerto Iguazu

So it was that we decided at the last minute to visit the Iguazu Falls, which were, by all accounts, unmissable. At the same time that we booked the tickets for the World Cup qualifier between Argentina and Uraguay, we went ahead and booked a package tour to the Falls, which included an 16hr overnight, return bus trip together with a hotel for 2 nights and guided tours to both the Argentinian and Brazilian sides of the national park. Again, our bus ride to the falls was excellent and made mor...

Friday was spent primarily walking around downtown BA. First we went to a mall that Lonely Planet told us to go to and it turned out to be highly overrated. It was basically just Valley Fair nice ceilings. After that we decided that we needed to figure out a way to get over to Mendoza since Lisa needs to have her Malbec! Unlike the US, busses seem to be the primary mode of transporation around Argentina. We got to a beautiful bus station and worked again with a travel agent to see about packa...

Sorry it´s been so long since our last entry. We´ve had some technical difficulties with our hotels and their internet speeds.Right now we´re STILL having issues with getting pictures up but hopefully we´ll have that up and running again soon... Anyways, we spent the whole day at Iguazu Falls and it was absolutely spectacular!! The falls were amazing. there was a train that took us to the ¨devil´s throat¨ falls. There were also all sorts of trails to walk around the park and see the different...

It was a long four-hour flight to Buenos Aires, then change, then an additional hour and a half to get to Puerto Iguazu. From the bottom of the world, we made it to the Subtropics. And boy, was it subtropical! It was 35 degrees, sunny and humid when we got out of the last plane. After having had snow just the day before, our bodies didn't know how to react to heat; we had to walk very slowly and breathe in carefully. The landscape was luxuriant, dense jungle, the earth was bright red, and Pue...

Friday we flew from Buenos Aires to Port Iguazu. we stayed in Saint George hotel (4 star hotel, large comfortable room, bad pool, food's al right = 80US$). Nadav was especially worried of mosquitoes bites and developing Malaria or Yellow Fever. but evidently we survived ! the area around the Iguazu falls is hot and humid, and very green and jungle like (the first time for me) - i loved it ! the day after we went to see the Iguzu falls just from the Argentinian side. we spent half a day over t...

Yesterday we spent the day at the waterfalls...we had seen on the news that they were dried up, but they still had plenty of water to make them enjoyable. It was incredibly humid though. Painfully humid. So after waking around in "el jungle", we bought some swimming suits and jumped n the pool at the hotel. Since they use natural heat to warm the pool, it was still pretty chilly. The hot tub felt more like a pool should feel, but had a strange green color, so we may come home with some strang...