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We finally arrived in Foz de Iguazu, the Brazilian side of Iguazu falls at around midday today only 3 hours late. We immediately went to the tourist info desk to ask how to get across the boarder but found it to be closed, tourists obviously don't travel on Saturdays... Fortunately for us, someone had stuck a note in the window telling us which bus to catch and we went outside to where it said. We had to wait almost 45 mins for a bus to the centre of town to eventually show up, meanwhile at least 5 buses to Paraguay (which must go through the town to reach the border) came and went with no one on them!! Finally we caught the short bus ride into town and were dropped off with our bags at the other bus terminal. After walking out through the road as this station has no pedestrian entry (why would a bus station need one?) or exit we had to search around for where the cross border bus stopped. (not the bus station of course, why that would just be ridiculous!!!!) Eventually we found it with some help from one of the kiosk owners and climbed aboard. We were dropped off at the Brazilian side about half an hour later and issued a ticket so we would be able to take the next bus on without having to pay again and went inside to get our exit stamps. Crossing the border was uneventful with neither side giving us a second look and we were soon back on the bus for the short ride in the centre of Puerto Iguazu (the Argentinian side) where we arrived at the bus station and immediately went to find somewhere to stay. As we were leaving the bus station a man came and offered us a hostel but it was too expensive for us, he did however know of a camp-site in town and we followed his direction to find the garden of a small house, which the owner had decided to turn into a camp site, at $5 each per night we weren't complaining though and Mae started to set the tent up while I went to find a cash machine. This took quite a while in fact and by the time I returned the entire camp was set up and the owner had disappeared. We decided to immediately go out again and see if we could get a bus ticket to Buenos Aires booked, returning to the bus station we were shocked to discover that the cheapest ticket was over $100 each making it by far the most expensive on our travels so far but we had no choice but to pay it as there is no alternative!! Bus sorted we turned our thoughts to dinner and scoured the small town trying to find somewhere reasonably priced. Since Puerto Iguazu's sole reason for being is tourism this was unsurprisingly rather difficult as most places were either extortionate or simply had no prices at all. (which means the price is whatever they can get away with) Eventually though we ended up in a small café where we managed to get a salad for both of us and a bottle of drink for $6, still not cheap but at least it's not a rip off!! The salad was lovely, possibly because it's so long since we've had anything so healthy and we soon devoured it, resisting the temptation to order another!! Satisfied now we explored the town a little but we soon realised that there was nothing happening, must be the low season and we decided to go back to our tent and listen to our audio book before bed.
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