Hello, so we arrived in Foz De Iguassu after a 9hour wait at the bus garage in Campo Grande and then a 17hour bus journey. We stayed in a place called Iguassu Charm which was nice. We had our own room and shower with hot water so we couldn't of asked for much more. We were close to the shops which was good as the first night we headed down to a restaurant called La Chamana (spelt something like that) for dinner. It was $57 per person which allowed us to each as much as we liked...This was definitely what we needed after such a long journey. This place was full of lots of different salads, vegetables, mash potato,cheese and not to forget the meat. This place was amazing. Waiters would come around with different meats and serve them to you. We ate chicken heart (didnt know at the time) mini sausages, pork loin, beef, mini steaks wrapped in bacon, chicken wrapped in bacon, fillet mignon and lots more...And let me just tell you that Andrew ate and ate and ate. Every time the waiter would come out with a new dish Louise would laugh because Andrew would ask for some. The only thing he did turn down was the bbq pineapple and that was only because he wanted to leave space for the meat. No word of a lie after about 10 different servings of meat he was finally done. Louise in the mean time had lemon mirang pie and half a strawberry cheesecake for dessert. Which Andrew too found himself eating after a 5 minute rest. This place was def the best place we had eaten so far. We were just gutted that we didnt bring a camera to take pictures of all the different meats to show you all. Anyway after dinner we fatted our way up the hill and back to our hostel. We booked our trip to the falls for the next day.
At 9m we got up for breakfast. Louise had the usual 2 toasts and slice of chocolate cake (it is just sooo yummy) with a coffee and Andrew had his 2 baguette rolls with cheese and ham. At 10am the taxi man took us to the Argentinian side of the falls which was about 40 minutes drive away. We didnt pay for the tour as it was a lot more expensive so we sent the day just wandering around. To get to the main falls you need to get 2 little trains. These take about 10 minutes. After walking through loads of walkways and bridges we finally arrived at the falls. IT WAS AMAZING. Just watching all the water fall was great. When you looked at the water leading up to the 'devils throat' it was so calm and relaxing and then it was just crazy. We spent about 45minutes here taking photos, looking around and trying to push our way through the crowds. We then headed back to a cafeteria for some food. On the way back there where about 100 butterflies in one place and thousands just flying around us. They where so pretty. There where ones that had the number 88 on them which was cool. At the cafeteria there where loads of raccoon type creatures hanging around for food (basically like pigeons). I think they also knew that we had leprosy because for some reason they didnt bother us. We didnt mind as we found it a lot funnier to watch them pester other people. One kid kept putting his feet up on his chair and the raccoon kept backing him in to a corner. I think this was only funny to us because the kid was screaming and it wasnt happening to us. After lunch we had a long walk around the park, check out the museum. This is where Andrew got in the home made boat. (This is what people used to sail down the river in hundreds of years ago). After a few shops (Andrew bought some Argentinian tea herbs) and a coffee we got the taxi home.
When we got back Andrew made a special Argentinian tea (everyone in South America drinks it) it was disgusting. It was really really strong and it didnt taste anything like our tea back home. So we threw it away.
We have a TV in our room so we had been doing a lot of TV watching when lazying around we even managed to find English speaking channels. We watched the last one of the Harry Potters, a film called The Fan with Robert DeNiro and Center Stage (the sort of crap i like to watch). On Wednesday night we headed to Paraguay. The bus journey was only 5 hours so the journey wasnt too bad plus the coach seat here are just amazing. The seat recline back soo far. I will take a pic the next time we are on them so you can see what we mean.
So to sum up Paraguay its a bit of a shit hole. We didnt have people trying to sell us grenades or guns when we arrived which was surprising as we where told people always approach you. The area that we are in (Asuncion) the capital is not too bad. There are a few shops and a mall as well as McDonalds, Burger King and another few nice places to eat. The people are actually ok here too. They don't bother you, and you can walk around the town with your jewellery on show, however we dont just to be safe. We leave here tonight to head to Santa Cruz in Bolivia which is going to take a while to get to but hopefully we can sleep most of the way. Once here we will be looking to get a bus straight away to Lima Peru so that we dont waste to much time there. The bus journey to Peru will probably take a while so we wont be writing here for a while. We hope you like the pictures so far and we will speak to you soon xx
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