Iguacu Falls continued….
Friday, March 16th, 2007Back to the relative sanity of the Brazil/Argentina border crossing…
Friday the 9th we tool the rattley local bus that crosses the border to the Argentinean side of Iguaçu. A relatively straightforward process albeit tiring because you have to get on and off the bus and inevitable get left behind, at each side of the border crossing.
We checked into a hostel recommended by some friends in Paraty, never listen to Australian, they had us booked into a hostel not dissimilar to a disused mental asylum! As you can tell we are currently enjoying a downward spiral of hostel accommodation standards, I think we were spoilt by the amazing place we stayed in Paraty, we might also have bad karma for stealing their key accidentally!
Anyway, the town of Puerto Iguaçu in Argentina is much nicer than Foz, and despite the LP recommendation that the only decent place to eat in the bus station café (I ask you, did these people even leave any bus stations?!) we had our first Argentine meal of fabulous steak and red wine.
Header to the Argentine falls on local bus in the morning, no expensive tours for us! But the park is so well organized you really don’t need a tour and we spent the whole day following the trails and exploring the waterfalls. From this side you get a much better close up view of the falls, standing underneath some and walking across the top of others. At the end of the park you take a series of walkways to reach the top of the Devils Throat waterfalls, which is just incredible. The guide books all tell you it’s like standing on the edge of the world, although Tucky with his own personal philosophical bent, likened it more to being a spider about to be flushed down the toilet – such a romantic! Anyway, it was definitely a view worth seeing. I will post photos a soon as I can, unfortunately the computer won’t let me here.
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