Foz de Iguacu

Trip Start Aug 24, 2008
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Trip End Mar 01, 2009


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Where I stayed
Paudimar Campestre Hostel
(Foz de Iguacu hotels)

Flag of Brazil  , State of Parana,
Sunday, September 14, 2008

After the 5 hr journey to campo grande on Sat  we sat on the night bus to foz do iguacu...Time in South america seems pretty stretchable.. someone said it would take 12 hrs to foz, another 14 hrs etc...we actuañlñy reached foz de iguacu after a 13 hr bus ride. Luckily it wasn´t that cold on the bus since they had heaters in there!

Foz de iguacu is apparently supposed to have 275 falls (again numbers are pretty stretchable in south america - one guide bok would say 250 while another 275, etc). We actually think they counted all the tiny falls to make it a big number of falls..there didn´t seem to be falls reaching a two hundred something mark. They´re the widest falls in the world chucking out on average 1.5 million litres of water per second.

The power of the falls is amazing to hear and feel Falls panorama
Falls panorama
 . The falls are between Argentina and Brazil but the river falls within Argentina, Brazil & Paraguay. We could see people on the Argentina side looking at the falls. Couldn´t be asked to go see the bird park after all the Pantanal bird siteseeing.

Had more sucos at the hostel and it wasn´t as diluted as the pantanal.

Met Belgian dude called Frederick at the hostel who had done a 23 hr bus ride from Rio to Iguacu and before that a 30 hr bus ride from Salvador to Rio. Roohi asked him what he did for 30 hrs, he laughed and said "I just looked around!"
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jaymini
jaymini on Sep 22, 2008 at 07:12AM

Foz de Iguacu
Hi, sounds like fun...

Hope you both taking loads of pictures too...

Take care

Bhabhi
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kunjal00
kunjal00 on Sep 23, 2008 at 07:17AM

Amazing...
Those falls are amazing - did you take the raft ride into them? Was pretty cool.

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