At the moment am still a little damp from our soaking at the Iguassu falls, it was our second day there and unfortunately today we were soaked but the rain rather than the watefalls themselves but I'll get on that later! (Though I'm sure some of you are pleased to hear we haven't been sunning ourselves the whole time!!)
We left Rio last week for the Island 'Ilha Grande', not much to report there apart from stunning beaches and a nice lady who owned the hostel who cooked everyone dinner.
Oh and we met some English and Irish people (there's loads of Irish Travelling it seems) and played drinking games and went to a club ( though Fitz didn't make it to the club - cough - lightweight).
I left Ihla Grande with a massive hangover, surrived the ferry back to the main land by sleeping the whole way but struggled on the bus to Paraty. We also bid farewell to Greg and Div as it was beans a clock. (In joke)
Paraty is a very pretty colonial town with white buildings and cobbled streets which are prone to flooding, we discovered this for ourselves when we got surrounded by sea water whilst looking at a church.
There are lots of little shops and nice restaurants in Paraty so we ate quite well, with a tasty good value lunch of fish in shrimp sauce and at night had dinner by candlelight at a place on the beach.
The hostel we stayed in was more of a hotel and was lovely, we had the full works; ensuite, TV, aircon, fridge stocked with beer, yummy breakfast - I fear we have been spoilt as nowhere else since matches up!
We also did a boat trip around the surrounding islands and got rather wet, not just from swimming but because it rainned! Oh well.
From Paraty we travelled by bus to Saó Paulo and stayed overnight. We caught the metro, which was nice and clean, to our hotel. That's all I have to say about Saó Paulo as we didn't see much of it at all as we didn't stayed in a particularly nice neighbourhood and didn't have a guide book so were confined to our room.
We took a 15 hour bus - which is really a coach with lots of leg room and seats that go really far back - to Foz Igacu (Brasilian spelling of Iguassu) with lots of mad Brasillian people. For those of you that don't know, the Iguassu river forms the boarder between Brasil, Argentina and Paraguay and the waterfalls are between Brasil and Argentina. We're now at Puerto Iguazu (Argentinian spelling of Iguassu) in Argentina as its cheaper than visiting on the Brasil side! (Fitz is now fed up of me asking him how to spell Iguassu in 3 different languages)
So yesterday we went to visit the Iguassu falls and they didn't dissapoint, they are absolutely stunning, a complete must see. When Eleanor Roosevelt (remember her from GCSE history Ally?!) went there she is to have said "Poor Niagara" so you get the picture! (We took tons of photos) There are lots of different trails which take you above and below the falls, you can go round anyway you want but if you start at the top its best apparently so that's what we did. Like lots of other vistors we did the boat trip which takes you up to the falls and got completely drenched which was fun, I had a wet bum for the rest of day. The top half of me was dry though so I know that my waterproof works.
We saved the biggest waterfall till the end of the day 'Garganta Del Diablo' - The Devils Throat which is breathtaking. It is spectacular, completely awesome, the walkway takes you right up to the edge of it and you can look down. As you stand there getting covered in its spray you can appriecate its shear volume, power and beauty. It's so loud! We took a short video of it so hopefully we can get to post that on here.
We went back to the falls for a second day today as its half price on your second day so we did a trail we didn't get round to yesterday. Today we got soaked to the bone cos it rainned and rainned and rainned. Fitz has done a good job of hanging everything around our room to dry in time for tomorrows 18 hour bus trip to Beunos Aires. This time we get full beds so should sleep OK.
Righty ho, I hope you didn't fall asleep through all that! Or maybe you just scrolled to the photos?
Hope alls well. I keep having weird dreams about being at home - like last night I dream I was still at work and there was a tiger in a cage in the office which was our new boss' (not sure if it was Dominic or not - the boss not the tiger) which got out and attacked me! I told Jo about it but our boss wouldn't get rid of it! Ha ha - how random. Think it has something to do with seeing 2 tigers in changes being driven around the town here to 'attract' people to the circus...
Oh yeah and the other day we went to this animal place and saw endangered birds and animals and it came with a tour guide all for a fiver. Bargain!
Right, am really gonna sign off now!
Take Care
Lots of love
Nicole
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