Iguazu

Surprise - we're at Iguazu Falls - it is a surprise to us too, although we had 15 hours on the bus to get used to the idea. We were desperately searching for any place in southern Brazil where it was not going to rain for a few days and found none - so here we are at one of the natural wonders of the world simply because it was the most convenient way to get to Buenos Aires at the time.



The falls are spectacular and we're glad we saw them - perhaps mostly so we don't have to make excuses for not having been here. Anyone who travels to this part of the world normally takes a couple days to see all this "water running over a cliff" which is how Lewis always dismissed it, but I think he was impressed too, or perhaps we were both just gleefully joyous at the sight of the sun! We also had a bit of a struggle getting out of Sao Paulo and spent the better part of 2 days in the bus station and on the metro between it and the hotel. Quite surprisingly, the bus station in Sao Paulo is not an unpleasant place - perhaps its all the armed guards. We'll do Sao Paulo later...

At this point we are really looking forward to being "home" in Buenos Aires. We've been moving around a lot, the weather has not been great, and we are also much more comfortable in Argentina than Brazil. Today we took a quick trip across the river to Argentina from Brazil (you can also see Paraguay from the bridge) to arrange our transport to Buenos Aires and we immediately felt the safe calm civilized europeaness of Argentina.

We really are hoping to post more photos but it is simply amazing how much time and energy the simplest things take in this country (or maybe its just us).