Puerto Iguazu. Most people who visit "las cataratas del Iguazu" do so on the Argentinian side of the border. I was surprised that the mass tourism had not affected the infrastructure more than it has in this town. Yes there were a couple of hostels and a few different posters with pictures of the falls, but that was about it. The hostel we stayed in was cheap by Argentinian standards, and we got what we paid for. The buffet they sold us was in a diff...

Iguacu In Wollongong I met a good friend of Paul's. He had been traveling around South America a couple of years earlier. He fell in love with Brazil, and was disappointed when I told him I was not going there. This story repeated itself on several occasions, but maybe most frequent when I was traveling with Maria. She was going to Brazil, and wanted me to join her. I resisted, again and again. After seeing Maria off to Santiago de Chile, and Youri and I got o...

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Cordoba I had been reading about Cordoba over the last few years. It is one of the largest cities in Argentina and a large university city. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara studied in Cordoba, and so did many other important figures in the Argentine history. Even if I read about the city in books like "Chasing Che" and "Investment Biker", I had no idea of what to expect from the city. All I had read was about people there, and nothing about the city ...

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