Iguazu Falls

After returning from Mendoza we had a few more days in Buenos Aires before we had to say goodbye. We really loved the city and tried to get in as much as we possibly could. We saw some museums, walked around our favorite neighborhoods, and had some delicious meals. Our last night Maria (friend we met in the Bolivian jungle) stayed with us. We went out to dinner with two Argentine guys we made friends with, Nacho and Oscar. They brought us to the best fondue restaurant I've ever been to in my life. All I know is that we were dipping cooked meat into melty cheese and drinking red wine. What more could you ask for?

Our next stop: Iguazu Falls. These are the most impressive waterfalls I have ever seen in my life. They are situated right at the Argentine and Brazilian boarder. We arrived at the falls at 8am on Saturday morning. We stayed until 4 pm just walking around seeing all the falls have to offer. We also went on a speed boat ride that brings you right under the falling water. It was so fun. We were screaming and giggling like kids! We got completely soaked, but it was great as it was so hot all day. It was one of the best days we have spent in this trip. We walked around all day seeing so many waterfalls. It was really impressive.


Our hostal, to our surprise, has the nicest swimming pool we've seen in ages. It's huge, clean and cool. This hostal is more like an all inclusive resort for young people. It looks like the setting for an MTV spring break edition. And the people act it is sometimes as well. Our first night we took it easy because we were tired from the overnight bus ride and had to be up early for the falls. But Saturday night we decided to let it rip. The hostal hosts a huge Parrilla (bbq) and all you can drink caipiriñas party. They even had some samba dancers for entertainment. At one point, both Liz and I were pulled up on the stage to dance samba and god knows what else with the group. It was loads of fun, but that might be the caipiriñas talking! We met a group of young Swedes and joined them after the hostal party to a bar in town called Club Bar. They gave us more caipiriñas there, then we went dancing at another dance club Cuba Libre.

We spent Sunday laying around the pool. We heard it was about 40 degrees Celsius. Sounds hot right, yup that's a whopping 104 degrees Fahrenheit! It was too hot to stay in the sun. We mainly swam around in the pool and also hid in the shade reading books. A friend we met in Mendoza, Ben, showed up in the afternoon. So we wemt in to the city and had dinner. We called it an early night as we knew we had an early morning check out and a lot of errands to take care, i.e. getting Brazilian visas!
We are now on our way to Florinopolis on the beach of Brazil.