Foz do Iguaçu

Trip Start Feb 25, 2008
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Trip End Mar 25, 2009


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Friday, April 11, 2008

I had shivers going down my spine as we crossed the border into Argentina.. my mind being cast back to Rosa incident and my great escape a month earlier. I reminded myself to say I was Maltese if anyone asked.

The Argentinian side of Iguassu Falls is meant to be a spectacular sight to behold and all the travellers I met who had been put it in the top 5. Well, all excited and raring to go...(unusual for me at 7am) .. we were forced to stop five hundred meters beyond the border. The road ahead was blocked by an Argentinian flag spanning the width of the road, a large number of people milling around  and a queue of traffic like you´ve never seen. It was apparently a peaceful demonstration for better quality of education and facilites in schools and the whole country was on strike.

With every sympathy for their cause, but somehwat hacked off at getting up so early, we turned back and went to Brazil side. Our thought´s that we´d been short changed quickly dissipated as the magnificence of the Brazil side unfolded... a truly amazing sight.

Apart form the practicalities of camera´s being damaged, it almost didn´t seem to matter that we were caught in the mother of all rain storms and were quite literally soaked through to the skin... it was worth it.

The day was topped off with a Latin American dance show with Capoeira, Tango, Samba, Salsa and all manner of others that I´d never seen before.
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