We walked the 4 or 5 blocks into the microcentre and did some window shopping and ate some lunch before heading back to our mid afternoon bus. Steph wants to buy some learther boots, she is sick of her only pair of shoes being hiking boots - and Hew is sick of being dragged from shop to shop with the "will I or won't I"......JUST BUY THE BOOTS!!! She was still undecided ggrrrr.
Puerto Iguazu
Another 18 or so hours in the bus to Puerto Iguazu. It is cold and raining when we arrive. We seem to keep hitting places in cold snaps at the moment! ( i can here the sympathy from you all as you read)...We are pretty tired so we hunt down a prime piece of inexpensive beef and sleep off the afternoon just like the locals - seista is brilliant.
The next morning we wake to more coldness and are debating whether to go to the falls or not. We decide to stay in Iguazu an extra night and head to the falls the next day....another uneventful day to recover, play guitar and Steph to catch up on the diary...and cook dinner as we are ripping through the pesos. Inflation is a nasty beast in Argentina, we spoke to the man at the hostel and he says the rooms at the hostel, like eveything else in Argentina, have been rising out of control. The price of the room we stayed in cost 190 pesos ($40) in January and cost us 290 pesos ($65) a night now - CRAZY and expensive!
The next morning we head to the falls, but the main lookout (Devils throat) is closed due to the water level so we decide to do a nice little hike into the 'rainforest' and to a small waterfall and come back the next day to see the major falls. The walk was really nice, spotting some monkeys, birds and big rodents.
On the way back from the falls we stopped in at an animal sanctuary - Guia Oga. They do a lot of rehab work with lots of tropical birds and birds of prey. We met a very freindly Toucan, he was nice enough to show us his skinny, long white tongue.
The next day we went back to the falls, they are just incredible. As the water level has been so high due to a lot of rain coming in from Brazil the falls are at their most powerful. The mist is just amazing, water bouncing off the falls and rising out high into the sky. And rainbows galore. We did another short trek and were lucky enough to have a group of Toucans land in the trees above us. That and they're were coatis absolutely everywhere - trying to steal everyones lunch.
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| Vulture and rainbow |
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| sooo much water.....the mist was so big it made the falls look alot smaller....crazy |
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| Steph getting drenched by the mist |
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| Coatis invading lunch |
We had some killer steak on our last night at one of the local Parilla's (literally 'grill' - you pronounce the double l as almost a j )
