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Hola...or should I say Oi as I´m now I´m in Brazil! I´m sorry I haven´t updated this for weeks...I´ve been too busy having fun :) And the internet over here is rubbish and expensive! At the moment I´m sat in a bus station in Curitiba waiting for a bus to Sao Paulo at midnight, then a connecting bus on to a beach town, Ubatuba. It´ll probably take me ages to get up to date so I´ll do it in instalments...here goes...
I think the last time I wrote on here was when I was leaving Mendoza. From Mendoza I took a night bus over to Cordoba (18th Jan, ages ago!), The hostel we stayed in was hilarious...from first glance it looked really cool - big roof terrace, pool table, big lounge area etc....but the room was like a prison!! The beds shook violently should you just rub your eyes, the sheets were too small for the bed, the bathrooms were crap and there was no air conditioning. The first night was hilarious....we´d been told that we couldn´t shower after 8pm as they needed to fix the showers, good news we thought....until we got woken up at 4AM by someone using an electric drill to fix the shower outside our room!! 4am!! Then at 5am I needed the toilet and our door had managed to get jammed so I had to climb out of the window...hahaha. Despite all of the above we ended up staying there for 4 nights, even though there was nothing to do there! Cordoba is a big town, walked around a little bit but we weren´t that bothered about spending much time in a big place, so we spent a lot of time relaxing at the hostel which was actually really nice, it made a change from rushing around all the time. Tyler, who I was travelling with, had an Argentian mate that lived there so we met up with him which was really cool as he showed us around the town and took us out to his favourite restaurant to stuff our faces with ridiculous amounts of meat, and to a cool club full of locals rather than tourists! Cordoba is meant to be quite a party place as it´s a university town, but as we were there in the holidays it was pretty quiet. We did get out of the city one day and braved a local bus to Cuesta Blanca, a really pretty peaceful place an hour out of town. We spent the day lying by the river and jumping in when we got too hot....
After 4 nights in Cordoba we got a long bus up to Iguazu, one of the (many) highlights of the trip (Iguazu, not the bus...the bus was terrible, too hot during the day, too cold at night, the tv didn´t work, had annoying children infront of us, and the food was awful...a cakey swiss roll type thing for dinner...filled with carrot, ham and cheese?!?!). About 24 hours after setting off we arrived in Puerto Iguazu and checked in to our hostel....huge hostel with a huge pool, the biggest in town, luckily we´d booked ahead as all 200 beds were full. We spent the afternoon relaxing by the pool...it was SO hot...it´s a tough life I know. The hostel was about 10 minutes out of town so they put on hostel dinners each night for the lazy people, us included, that didn´t want to treck in to town to the supermarket. On our first night they did a huge asado...more meat that you could ever eat washed down with caipirinhas. There was also some Brazilian (even though we were in Argentina) entertainment (that really should be in inverted commas but I can´t find them on this keyboard...)... which consisted of women wearing nothing but sequined bra and pants dancing, and trying to make everyone else dance, it was so tacky it was like a cruise ship. That hostel was definitely different to the others I´ve stayed in!! The next day we went to the falls, truely amazing, it was nice being in the jungle again! The falls were about 20 minutes by bus from the hostel. We got there about 10am and it was already ridiculously hot. We paid our 60 pesos entrance to the national park then made our first stop, to the Garganta del Diablo - our first sight of the falls and it was absolutely amazing. The tumbling water was so loud and we got soaked, but it was quite welcoming! Next we walked for an hour along the lower pass trail, our first full panoramic view of the falls, incredible - I couldn´t stop taking pictures! I was worried that after all the hype I´d be disappointed, but photos really don´t do it justice....perfect blue sky, lush green forests, rainbows...After the trail we wanted to take the free boat over to San Martin island where you can swim and see different views of the falls, but the queue was so long we didn´t want to wait in the heat. So instead we paid 75 pesos and took the Gran Aventur speedboat under the falls, so much fun!! We got absolutely soaked!! Next we dragged our wet-selves up to the upper pass for a view over the falls, again it was incredible....
...I have to run and catch my bus now...watch this space!xxx
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