Spent last night travelling on the night bus from Sao Paulo to Iguassu. It was not as bad as we had expected. More comfortable than an airoplane as the seats reclined much further. We arrived at the bus depot at 10am and were taken to the hotel by taxi. We had to wait in the lobby until around 12pm so David decided to get his little football (Rugby League) out and throw it around. Paul let us use his PC to pay off our credit card. We are reluctant to use the public PCs as Cat´s internet banking logon had been canceled as someone had tried to use it. Once we checked in and had a shower we set off for the Brazilian side of Foz du Iguacu. We walked along the path with the views of the falls gradually getting better and better. We took many photos from the different vantage points along the path. Along the way we also saw many colourful butterflies, lizards, a coati mundi which was an furry animal the size of a large cat with a big fury tail striped like a racoon´s and a pointed face. We also saw a toucan in the trees above us.The falls were quite spectacular even though the volume of water is much lower than at other times. At least we didn´t get wet! We took a walkway right over near the top of Devils throat (The largest part of the falls). For dinner we went to a traditional Brazillian BBQ resteraunt where they have a salad buffet and the waiters walk around with meat on large skewers and cut it off at your table.8th. Today we were to go to the Argentine side of the falls, however on our way there the driver recieved a call to say that there was a protest on the Argentine side of the boarder blocking the way into the falls. We ended up having today as our free day so we walked through the town, posted a couple of postcards and bought a top each. David bought a number 10, Ronaldinhio Brazillian soccer jersey. We then spent the afternoon by the pool reading and relaxing.9th. We had an early start today as we needed to get the falls in before catching a night bus to Salto in Uruguay. We headed off for Argentina and said goodbye to Brazil. After passing through we encountered the protest. They had a couple of large baners in the Argentine flag colours, blocking the highway.
We were stopped there for about 30 minutes before they decided to let some traffic through. We spent the day on the many boardwalks and taking many more photos of the spectacular falls. Everyone else in the group went on a boat that goes right up to the falls, they ended up soaked. The falls were absolutely amazing and it was good to have been able to see it from both sides.
We didn´t make it to the devils throat on the Argentine side as we were worried we would not make it back to the bus depot in time due to the protest. We spent about an hour in traffic again waiting to cross the picket line. When we arrived at the bus depot we found our bus was stuck on the other side of the protest so we had to catch a shuttle to our bus and transfer our luggage on the side of the road, and also wait another hour in traffic. The bus was a double decker bus where we were served dinner much better than we have had on an airline, and it was only the standard class bus. I can´t wait for the superior class bus.
We were stopped there for about 30 minutes before they decided to let some traffic through. We spent the day on the many boardwalks and taking many more photos of the spectacular falls. Everyone else in the group went on a boat that goes right up to the falls, they ended up soaked. The falls were absolutely amazing and it was good to have been able to see it from both sides.
We didn´t make it to the devils throat on the Argentine side as we were worried we would not make it back to the bus depot in time due to the protest. We spent about an hour in traffic again waiting to cross the picket line. When we arrived at the bus depot we found our bus was stuck on the other side of the protest so we had to catch a shuttle to our bus and transfer our luggage on the side of the road, and also wait another hour in traffic. The bus was a double decker bus where we were served dinner much better than we have had on an airline, and it was only the standard class bus. I can´t wait for the superior class bus.
2 comments:
Gee that was an easy trip to Foz de Iguacu! Remind me to tell you about the time we drove there from Sao Paulo, then continued to Sete Quedas(seven spectacular water falls now flooded by the hydroelectric scheme)and had to return in the rain on a red dirt road.
What was the protest about in Argentina? Cheers, Anna
doesn't sound like a very successful protest if nobody knows what it's about! I tried to read those banners in your photo, seemed just a bit unintelligible.
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