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To avoid confusion....the journal entries from Buenos Aires and Iguassu (in the Argentina section) are first!! This entey follows them but because we returned to Argentina at the end of the trip, the computer has put all of the entries in the same section, so read them first!!!
We got the bus this morning from Puerto Iguazu across the border (into Brazil) to Foz do Iguacu as we are heading for the Pantanal. When we got to the bus terminal we expected a big bus station, there wasn´t, there was a little bus shelter in the middle of a busy street. We were a little worried after the stories we have heard when a little black guy jumped on and told us to follow him. I was a little freaked out at this but then he showed us a brochure of the company we wanted to go to the Pantanal with and he said he would take us to an Engish speaking tour operator, the bus driver didn´t seem to have a problem with him and so reluctantly, we followed. On the way he tried to speak a little English but couldn´t speak much and the Portugese language is very strange! However he said hola to lots of people on the way so we began to relax as he seemed quite well known. True to his word he dropped us off at a hostel that was also a tour operator and we met a guy through whom we booked our tour and also a bus to a place called Campo Grande where we were to begin the trip. We asked this guy if we should tip the man that had brought us to him and he said not to as they pay him, however when we got outside the hostel he grabbed us and said that we owed him 10 pesos. As i was talking to Neil the guy was jabbering away and all of a sudden it had changed to 20 pesos and i swear that he was saying´because for you it´s not much´. I only had a 20 peso note and so gave it to him but kicked myself afterwards; we had just been well and truely ripped off! Needless to say we have learnt a valuable lesson!
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