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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Alison: We initially planned to get the bus from Foz do Iguacu to Rio so that we could feel the achievement of only using buses to travel South America but when we were struggling to find a decent bus and when we then found out that it was cheaper to fly on the day we wanted to go, it was a no brainer! We flew to Rio with a short pit stop in Sau Paulo and the whole journey took around 5 and a half hours - it was 24 hours on the bus! The journey was very smooth ap...
São Paulo, Brazil
Foz De Iguacu, Brazil
Nigel: We left Puerto Iguazu in Argentina on the bus and were in Foz de Iguacu in Brazil about an hour and a half later. We would have been there even quicker if we hadn't have needed to get off the bus to go through immigration and then wait for another bus. As we were staying a couple of days here, we decided not to rush to the falls on the first day but to have a bit of a rest and go refreshed the next day. We had a stroll around the centre (a nondescript ...
Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
Alison: We took yet another overnight bus to Puerto Iguazu and arrived there early in the morning after a mere 16hours. On waking up on the bus and looking out of the window, the landscape was very different to what we had already seen in Argentina. It was very tropical looking with tall palm trees, red rocks/sand everywhere. When we got off our nice air conditioned bus, we also found out that it was tropical weather.....very hot and 100% humidity. By the time we...