With another overnight bus journey to Iguassu to endure, I was determined to get more sleep than the last time, and this bus journey was much nicer as the temperature was better, we had a really nice meal and two generous glasses of wine. We were pretty impressed with it all, and even more so when the steward came round with a bottle of champagne and a bottle of whiskey! Ben opted for a large measure of whiskey, and I went for champagne, at which point he pulled out a plastic champagne glass and proceeded to put it together. True class. The only slightly disappointing thing about the journey was that one of the films they put on was "Blonde and Blonder" starring Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards, but hey, you can´t have everything.

Our hostel in Iguassu had been highly recommended by various people we had met, and it pretty much resembled a resort in Tenerife, with a large swimming pool out front. We checked in and in the afternoon headed into town to get some money out and book our onward bus ticket for later in the week. Having just got on the bus back to our hostel, Ben realised he had left his bank card in the cash machine. This sounds like a pretty stupid thing to do, but I should point out that it´s pretty easy here as they don´t give your card back before the money like they do at home, they keep it until last. Soo...we knew that his card was in the machine with the possiblity of doing another transaction. Needless to say Ben was off that bus pretty quick and legging it back to the cash point. Surprise surprise it wasn´t there but after about an hour on the phone to Barclays it was all ok, no thanks to Barclays.That night we met up with Dave, James and Mark from Mendoza who had been at our hostel a few days, and Ben was delighted to get the chance to play some football when an impromptu game was set up.

On Tuesday we were up and out to get to the Iguassu falls, the whole reason for coming to Iguassu! The waterfalls lie along the border of Argentina and Brasil, so for our first day we visited the Argentinian side. We were there by 9:30, which was good as we got to see some of it before it was too busy. To say it was amazing is a bit of an understatement. It was really cool to be seeing something so impressive that is actually natural. From the Argentinian side there are three sections, which involve quite a lot of walking and you see a lot of individual waterfalls. We took loads of photos, but uploading photos is proving a bit of a problem at the moment so may be a while. We had a great day wandering around, especially as the weather there is lovely. The last section we did is called devil´s throat, where you walk right out until you are at the top of an enormous waterfall, with so much spray you can´t see the bottom.

That night we had a bbq at the hostel with some brazilian dancers. Ben was dragged up to participate, he never escapes! We got chattting to some other people whilst drinking the free caiprinhas and before we knew it we were playing a drinking game involving flipping cups. Funny stuff.

Wednesday morning we used the hostel´s transfer service to get to the Brasilian side of the waterfalls, which was good because the driver sorted it all out with our passports at the border checkpoints. Pretty weird to be stamped into Brasil for only about 4 hours! Also strange to hear Portuguese being spoken when we were still struggling with Spanish! We walked along the waterfall route with another couple from our minibus, and it was pretty short, only about an hour and a half. However, it is quite different from the Argentinian side as you get to see the waterfalls more as a group from across the valley. I think I preferred the Argentinian side, but the Brasilian side is still awesome.

Had a pretty quiet evening, and were up the next morning for our 23 hour bus ride...joy.