Iguazu, Paraguay & Paraty


Howdy

After finally arriving in Foz de Iguazu in Brazil, we spent the rest of the day checking out the Brazilian side of the falls. For me and a few others in our tour, this meant a helicopter ride out over the national park before joining the rest to see the falls from lower down. The water levels were a bit low so the falls themselves weren´t as impressive as they otherwise might have been but nevermind, they were great anyway. That afternoon we visited a bird park which was really cool with lots of species of birds which we could get quite close to.

The next day we crossed back into Argentina to see the falls from that side. Here we were able to walk out on a platform perched at the tops of the "Devil´s Throat" section of the falls which was very impressive indeed. We did some more wandering around, some people took a swim too, before heading back to Brazil. We had a rather large party that night which was a heap of fun with many of us ending up in the hotel pool to beat the heat.

The next day was a free day but a few of us organised a quick trip to Cuidad de Oest in Paraguay seeing as the border was close. We did a bit of shopping and looking around before heading back to Brazil for yet another epicly long bus ride. This one was 16hrs to Sao Paulo, where we head breakfast at our guide´s parents place, which was very nice, before yet another bus, this one 7 hours to Paraty. 25 hours later, we arrived, all looking very tired, despite our seats being reasonably accommodating for a bus.

Paraty is a small coatal town on the way to Rio. We only had two nights there, including the one we arrived after our bus journey. We spent our only free day taking a boat tour around some of the small islands, where we swam and drank yet more Caipahrina´s, despite the reasonably poor weather. The next day we started off on a 2.5hr local bus ride to a small city to get a boat to take us to Ilha Grande, an island off the Brazilian cost. After the bus and the boat, we arrived, checked into the hotel and got a very late lunch/early dinner before some more partying.

I´ll update more on Ilha Grande later as that´s where I am now and i´ll post all about it when my time here is finished.

Next stop Rio de Janiero!

Dave
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