Foz do Iguaçu - Puerto Iguazu

25/05/13 to 28/05/13 - After twelve hours on a night bus, we arrived early in the morning at Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil and after our final per kilo buffet breakfast we decided to go straight to see the Iguassu falls.  At the entrance of the falls, we could put our big bags in a locker, which was a relief.  Then a small bus drove us another 15km or so to different spots within the park (for boat trips, guided tours, and walking trails). We went straight to the walking trails by the falls as we knew that the other activities were quite pricey and less impressive on this side of the falls than the Argentinian side.

We walked along the trail by the river Iguassu, and as we walked, we discovered step by step the beauty of these natural phenomena. The two hour walk was nice and the sunny weather made some stunning rainbows in the mist of the waterfalls. We walked along a boardwalk across the top of the lower section of the falls right into the bowl of the ‘Devil’s Throat’ of the upper falls. Luckily we had our rain jackets as we got soaked, and it was funny to watch everybody try to take pictures without getting their cameras wet.





That same day, in the afternoon we crossed the border which was only 30 minutes away by bus and arrived in Argentina in the town of Puerto Iguazu. We found a cheap guest house and rested for the rest of the afternoon. The next day we sorted out a few bits and pieces, like changing money again on the “blue market”. We asked few people in town as well as an official “casa de cambio”, who were willing to make the exchange 5.2 pesos verbally, but passed us a piece of paper over the counter which read 7.5 Argentinian Pesos for a dollar instead. We thought we could do better, and we finally exchanged at a slightly better rate with “Rambo” in a suit shop at the back of a small alleyway. We then booked a bus ticket for Salta for two days’ time (we wanted to fly, but for some reason ‘Crazy Cristina’ has decided to charge foreigners 3 times the price to foreigners for air tickets).





We walked around the small town of Puerto Iguazu some more and noticed some smoke coming from behind the walls of a school. We peered around the wall and there were some people grilling lots of whole chickens, sausages and various cuts of steak. It was Sunday and that means Asado day. We went inside and for 60 pesos we had a quarter of a chicken, two strips of beef ribs, two chorizo sausages and a small steak, accompanied by some steamed yams and Chimi-churri sauce. This was an excellent find and we had to walk off the lunch and burn some calories, so we walked to where the 2 rivers of Rio Iguassu and Rio Parana meet, the “Golden Triangle” where there is the 3-way frontier between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

The day after, we woke up quite early in the morning to go to see the Iguassu falls on the Argentinian side this time and it was really amazing, with lots and lots of falls. There was much more things to see than the Brazilian side, so we walked around 6 hours on the trails to contemplate this beauty.