PUERTO IGUAZU, ARGENTINA

Day 291

Iguazu Falls, Puerto Iguazu which is on the Argentina side!

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We are now dealing with Paesos currency and back to Spanish speaking!
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Well who knows what happened to last night! We don´t even know what happened to it...one thing we do know is we have lost a whole night´s sleep!

We left Salvador by taxi last night at 9pm after the hostel staff said we could freshen up by using their showers (we´d been at the beach all afternoon!) which was nice of them...

And we got to the airport..and of course, our flight to Sao Paulo ' where we went via Iguazu ' was delayed..as it always seems to be in South America! SO, we did what we do..read our books! I bought a Prevention magazine for 18 reais...a rip off but i just love to read magazines on the plane...to distract me mainly...from Greg´s takeoff paranoia...

Gosh...when we were taking off at one point, from Sao Paulo to Iguazu at about 1pm after not sleeping all night and spending the morning hanging around the boarding lounge...and the second flight on this mammoth journey to ´Foz´ i was actually wondering whether Greg was a flight pessimist or a flight cynicist....(have´t quite worked it out!)

As we were walking down the runway tunnel, he spotted 3 flight manuals, with the title, ´Maintenqance Analysis´ laying open with an empty suitcase laying open next to it...and he says, ´They´re trying to work out which loose wire goes where!!!´

Now...that made me feel very secure as we were boarding a plane in a country that always gives a resounding clap whenever a plane lands!!!!

Gawd..

Then, as we were in the plane, Greg looks out..and says ¨The plane we´re flying in is very small....¨ I said, änd your point is´ hahah gosh....

No wonder his blood pressure goes up prior to take off...poor thing!

Anyway, we made it into Foz Iguazu on the Brasil side at 5pm and turned our clocks back to 4pm...and then caught a taxi over the border from Brazil to Argentina..and here we are in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina side!

We´re going back to the Brazil side to see the Falls..and will see them from this side as well..We´re lucky we have a Brazilian passport to see both sides!

We´re also going to the Itaipu dam that we saw while we looked outside the plane..the dam walls were so impressive from the plane,..SO HUGE and wide and meandering...looked funny really. Billions of dollars were spent on this dam..and we´re really keen to see it....This particular one is one of the seven engineering feats of the world!

Should be good here..it´s raining and we can hear kids singing church songs from the little church..we think practising for xmas next week...

Fancy that..xmas in ONE week!

Seems surreal doesn´t it...

Although we haven´t had any sleep at all for the last 24 hours..we still managed to organise some flight here in town this evening (the shops here and in brasil and agentina seem to stay open all day and night!) so we´ve finally sorted out where we will be for xmas..

Which is Buenos Aires...

We´re there for a week..calafate for a week..and Montevideo (Uraquay) for a week...

So..at least we know where father xmas can find us to give us all our pressies..hehe...i wonder if we´ll get vegemite..the thing on the top of the wishlist!!!

Remember we told him when we were in Rovaneimi we´d be in Bueonos Aires...!!! haha

I wonder if he will find us...haha

xx