Sunday, October 12, 2008

Cataratas do Iguaçu - part 1

There has been a change in plans, we went to the Iguaçu falls first... Iguaçu because we are on the BRAZILIAN side. The other side is not the other side of the postcard, which is usually meant for writing. The other side is ARGENTINA (just like the other side of the Itaipu dam is Paraguay... You follow?). The grass is always greener on the other side... Although it looked pretty green here.


The best way to see the falls is to see it from all the angles. That is exactly what this 400Hp boat is trying to do (ok, it's small, but you get the picture), getting everybody wet. We start with this : it's the close angle....


And a low angle, from the speedboat...

These two pictures were taken before getting wet.

We got very much closer to the falls, but my camera was in a plastic bag. The boat pilot basically drove us under the falls, so everything was really wet (I guess I valued more the camera than the possible picture...).

After having enjoyed such a close look, we took some distance (still in the fall spirit though - my underwear/shorts remained wet all afternoon).

Here are some of the views you can seefrom the trail...

Oooooh...
Aaaaah...
One more?
After all that, we went back to the Youth hostel take a swim in the pool :-).
You cannot believe how hard it was to write the article... I am reaaaally hungry, we just heard that there is a meat 'a volo' buffet two blocks from here. (It's already 9pm, and we did not have a real lunch - and it's less than 5 euros). Hopefully, the internet in Brazil is nowhere close to what we experienced in the neighboring country...

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Foz do Iguazu, Brazil!

So we decided to get here one day early as we were already done with Asunción. So far its been great, the weather is nice, it seems realtively cheap and best of all, they speak portugese wich is really funny!!
Tomorrow we will visit the Itaipu dam, the worlds second largest. Monday and tuesday we will see both sides of the Iguazu waterfalls (Brazil and Argentina). So hopefully we will soon have some nice pictures for you!

happy birthday

To the bear :-)

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Asuncion



Soo... we are now in Asuncion, where we should stay a couple days. (until this weekend, probably, guess why...). That was the easiest border crossing so far...

I really tried... but the picture upload wont work. Maybe tomorrow...

Even with the 20 points malus given to Yannick (Helene is in not in Malta, Sophie is...), I think he is first this time... Now I have to go to the postoffice...

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Salta

added oct9:
At last.... It was long, but Gustav managed to upload these three pictures (it's not much, but it took a lot of energy...).And hum... There was ont thing we forgot to take for this bike ride... Sunblock. Hopefully, we did not burn (not too badly anyway).

This pass is famous for the color of the surrounding mountains, ranging from green to flashy red, orange, etc etc....
Cafayate is also famous for its wine... Indeed we did make several stops in vineyards on the way back. We even bought a bottle of their nicest wine (that I have to say, was quite nice).

Due to technical problems (no usb, and a slow connection), we wont be able to publish this post now... :-(
We went yesterday to Cafayate, about 3 hours from Salta.
This afternoonm we'll be getting on the night bus to Clorinda, which is on the border of Paraguay. We should be in Asuncion tomorrow morning... And with some luck with a better conection!