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  Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
Monday, February 18, 2008

So we arrived sweaty and smelly in Foz du Iguazu on the Brazillian side and needing to get a bus to the Argentian side where we were staying, we got on the bus but it went down all these dirt track roads so given previous experience we assumed we got on the wrong one and so an hour later we ended back at the bus station where we started. We got another bus only to find it took us right back where we'd just been - we just hadn't got off in the right place.  Once we made it over the boarding having acquired our exit and entry stamps in our passports we got a taxi to our hostel, which used to be an old casino and was more like a resort with a huge swimming pool outside.  Later on we bumped into the guys from Leeds who we met at Rio Backpackers so we had a few beers and caprihiniīs with them at the hostel.

The next day we went to the Argentinian side of the falls which were amazing.  We got a train from inside the park and walked over the rivers on platforms until we reached the Devils throat, crazy amounts of  water

Katie at iguazu - devil´s throat

.  We met up with a guy from our hostel and walked from the rest of the park with him it was beautiful, all butterflies and rainbows.  We got absolutely drenched on a boat ride into the Devils' throat but it was wicked fun.  That night they had an all you can eat barbeque at our hostel and a samba show.

Went to the Brazilian side of the falls the next day and decided to get a bus to save some money. Got confused at the border as Katie had read in Lonely Planet that you needed to get exit and entry stamps from the Brazilian side even for the day, but we didnīt get off the bus, Katie then started panicing about paying fines at the Bank of Brazil and it being a Sunday and missing the bus to Buenos Aires cause we wouldnīt be able to get over to the Argentinian side. Neil remained nonplussed.  The bus dropped us off by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere and said we needed to get another bus to the falls from the other side of the road.  An elderly Israeli couple and a Argentinian family also got off the bus with us.  The Israeli lady (Sabrina) calmed Katie down saying they also hadnīt got their stamps and spoke Portuguese and would ask for us at the falls.  After 15 minutes of waiting in the sun we decided to get a Taxi. Sabrina went off to negotiate the taxi and came back saying that he would take all of us (including the Argentian family) to the falls, so there was nine of us in the taxi in all, the driver just chucked the Argentinian kids in the boot!  Once at the falls the elderley Israeli couple continued to take us under their wing, when they realised there was a huge queue to get into the place they managed to get us straight to the front by pretending we were their kids, they were amazing.  

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