May 14, 2012 - Brazil - Foz do Iguacu

Stayed in YHI resort out of town - in a wooden cabin. Beautiful grounds with camping, swimming pool, cafe, restaurant etc. Visited the Iguacu Falls National Park. Awesome panoramic views of falls from Brazilian side. Lots of Coaties on the paths (see photos when available later). Next day whilst waiting to go to Argentina, a Argentinian? woman and man tried to engage us in conversation, even though we kept saying "que?". After a while when no bus came we shared a taxi across the border - which was much easier than we expected at the...

Mar 25, 2011 - Dash to Brazil from Chile

THE MAD DASH TO BRAZIL-WITH SOME CHILEAN WINE TASTING-IGUAZU FALLS FROM THE BRAZILIAN SIDE. 3/14-Puerto Varas -Llanquihue Free camp(20 miles) Today is the day we are supposed to Pick up Paco. I went to the shop at around a 9:30 to see what progress had been made. Well the tranny was sitting right next to the car, and the mechanics were just getting ready to lift it in. The owner of the shop hadn't come to work yet, because he was at the dentist. We needed to go to drop off the tip for our guide on the kayak trip, There was a maximum on the...

Apr 29, 2010 - Iguassu Falls - more pics

Hola and good bye Brazil - it was the best! We are in spanish country now; Brazil is portugeuse and we just arrived in Salto, Uruguay; afer our long bus ride; we are sort of sad to leave Brazil as there will no more ciaphrina's or portugeuse - spanish moitio's now!- our bus was stopped twice and searched with drug dog and guards - pretty wild experience; we arrived early this morning bus dropped us off in the middle ot no where but taxi's waiting for us to cross the border - oh what fun. Leaving for the thermal pools today and spa...

Dec 3, 2009 - Foz de Iguassu

As soon as I arrived at Foz de Iguassu I dumped my rucksack at the hostel and went straight out to see Iguassu Falls from the Brazilian side. I´ve been accused of using this word too much when describing the things i´ve seen (you know who you are!) but Iguassu Falls are quite simply amazing. They are a collection of approximately 275 waterfalls on the Rio Parana that borders Brazil and Argentina. The sheer size of the falls and the volume of water crashing down is absolutely mind blowing. This is another occasion where the pictures don´t...

Apr 8, 2008 - Ilha Do Mel & Iguazu Falls

Well....lots has happened in the last few days. Decided to go to a different island than what we originally planned bcoz it was closer and thought it would be better...took whoe day of travelling on buses to get there and almost got stranded at the port because we got there late and boats had stopped running and no hostels in sight! Luckily some friendly locals took us across. Island beuatiful but very cloudy both days we were there and had a downpour and got drenched! Had a walk along beaches and saw the famous grotto or arch in the rocks!...

Nov 27, 2007 - Brazil Part II

Sao Paulo is a huge place, a real concrete jungle that covers 7500 sq kms. As we drove along the freeway we could see high-rise buildings on the horizon, 360 degrees around us! Weird sight though the view from the observation tower 41 stories up was spectacular, never seen so much concrete. There are no houses, only apartments unless you are 1 hour from town. However, Bruno lives in a lovely part of town - possibly the only lovely part. I would compare it with East Melbourne or Carlton, very close to the CBD (we walked there) with lovely...

Nov 23, 2007 - Foz do Iguazu

We have been in B.A. now for 6 days and all is well. I am trying at a very scruffy Internet Cafe to add pictures from my camera so that you can see what we are up to. We have had lots of fun so far being out on a Motor Yacht on the 'Plata' dining out on Argentinian excellent steak and drinking copious amounts of superb coffee and cold,cold beer. Tonight we go to a Tango Cafe with Mark (Vicki's brother) and his beautiful girlfriend (Well. Family what would you expect??). Hopefully Mark's computer will be fixed and I can add some photographs...

Jul 26, 1989 - Paraguay

WEDNESDAY 26th JULY It was pouring rain when I rose this morning, so I decided that although my flight was only at 1.45 p.m. I may as well make my way to the airport. The route I had planned worked out very well, so that transporting my bags across the city was no problem at all. I arrived just in time for a bus and was at the airport half an hour later. I had quite a wait, but it was a pleasant airport, and I was very comfortable. The plane was late, and when it finally arrived we had to be taken to it by bus, as the tarmac was an inch...