16.5 hours on a bus to Iguazu Falls. Full of screaming babies and a rather chubby bus driver who decided to sit next to me and also decided that the most comfortable place to rest his elbow would be directly between my ribs. We arrived at 7am, rather delirious, to our hostel... out in the middle of nowhere with birds chirping and rain falling. We rested that day and woke the next to head to the Argentinian side of the falls. I was so happy to get to Argentina and launch into Spanish. It was incredible how comfortable Argentina felt just because I could communicate the things that I needed instead of trying to speak really broken Portuguese that probably sounds like Chinese to the Brazilian people anyway.
The falls were indescribable. So I really won´t try but I will say that they completely lived up to our expectations. I am going to post a couple of pictures but they don´t come anywhere close to expressing the scale of the falls. There are at least three sections to the falls so the pictures only show one section at a time and they are all massive and thunderous. We had a fantastic day... went on a boat ride that took us up under the spray of a HUGE waterfall that looked like it could have taken our boat, crumpled it up, and thrown it out to the Atlantic ocean. We did lots of hiking and checking out the different views of the falls. Today we are going to see the Brazilian side of the falls where you are supposed to get a nice panoramic view but not get up at close as the Argentinian side.
The trip is going great. We decided to speed up our exit of Brazil by a couple of days and skip a train ride we were planning on taking. Several people said it wasn´t worth the expensive tourist price. So, tomorrow we are headed to Florianopolis, a popular Brazilian tourist destination, to check out the beaches and atmosphere there. Another LONG bus ride!
Love to you all!
The falls were indescribable. So I really won´t try but I will say that they completely lived up to our expectations. I am going to post a couple of pictures but they don´t come anywhere close to expressing the scale of the falls. There are at least three sections to the falls so the pictures only show one section at a time and they are all massive and thunderous. We had a fantastic day... went on a boat ride that took us up under the spray of a HUGE waterfall that looked like it could have taken our boat, crumpled it up, and thrown it out to the Atlantic ocean. We did lots of hiking and checking out the different views of the falls. Today we are going to see the Brazilian side of the falls where you are supposed to get a nice panoramic view but not get up at close as the Argentinian side.
The trip is going great. We decided to speed up our exit of Brazil by a couple of days and skip a train ride we were planning on taking. Several people said it wasn´t worth the expensive tourist price. So, tomorrow we are headed to Florianopolis, a popular Brazilian tourist destination, to check out the beaches and atmosphere there. Another LONG bus ride!
Love to you all!
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