Left the hostel and as we passed by Posh on the way out we broke into a duet of Gabrielle´s ´walk on by´- there is a song for everything. Grabbed some medialunas and sandwiches from lunch at the bakery and caught the bus from the station across the border to Foz do Iguacu. The bus cost 8 pesos (about 1 pound), which we enjoyed a lot since the Oxford graduates paid 50 pesos per per person to get a taxi, and we just so happened to see them at our hostel in Foz and let them know. At the border the bus dropped us off and gave us a ticket - we then got our passports stamped and waited for the next bus (quickly trying to pick up some Portuguese words). At Foz we negotiated with a taxi driver but since we could not agree, decided to walk to a hostel (it was a nice day and we´d eaten a lot of medialunas during our few days in Argentina). Arriving at Hostel Bambu we dumped our bags and got on our next bus to the falls (Brazilian side), which was amazing also. Everyone says you need to do both sides, and it turns out you do! Bussed it back to town and ended up in some sports bar full of Brazilians watching (what seemed to be) a very important futball match with two very strong caiprinhas.

Day 7 (our first semanniversary) - amazing free breakfast at the hostel and then to catch another bus to the Itaipu dam (which is the second largest hydro-electric dam in the world). Our first logistical error of the trip as the bus went to the bus terminal and then proceeded back the way we came. We got off, crossed the road and tried again, and this time we were successful. At the dam we had a quick coffee (and got mobbed by bees, not for the last time) and then did a tour of the dam, starting with a propaganda video in Portuguese and Spanish subtitles. We both enjoy anything engineering, so had a good tour (which was luckily in english too) and also saw a load of capybaras and some very cute burrowing owls!

Back to Foz we traipsed around the city centre trying to find somewhere serving food, and found our first Brazilian buffet. Then visited a supermarket for snacks and got a shuttle to the long distance bus station (rodoviaria) to catch our next night bus to Campo Grande. Once on the bus conversation was primarily based on whether it was worth going to see the new Wolverine movie in Portuguese, which we unanimously agreed it surely would.