The bus took aaaages to reach the Argentinian Immigration on the other side of the bridge from Encarnación, due to the traffic queue. When we finally reached it, we were asked to go to the front of the line for the bag scan as we were travellers, score! Not sure why given the next bus took about 15 minutes on the other side.

While waiting, we recognised one of the guys from the Encarnación tourist info. He lives in Posadas and travels between Argentina and Paraguay every day to work. He said finding work in Argentina at the moment is very difficult. Running into him was great as he was able to show us the best stop to get off for our hotel.

After checking in, we crossed the road to the square, and ate the sandwiches we had brought all the way from Paraguay, probably the best sandwiches we'd had thus far, so well worth it. Afterwards, we walked down to the river and along the Costanera overlooking Encarnación, where we had been the day prior.

The waterfront was nicely paved and there were plenty of people running along it. There was a giant statue of Andres Guazurari, who ruled the province of Misiones from 1811 to 1822. It was actually a really warm day too, the both of us regretting having worn long pants for our walk.

Rounding the point at the end, there is a nice bay that looks to have been artificially created, with a sandy beach. There was one guy kite surfing in in the high winds.

From there we made our way back to the centre of town in search of the Museum of Natural Science and History that we read contains a geological history of the area. However upon locating the building, it was now a British school. At least we think it was the right building, as Posadas has renumbered all its streets recently. We are starting to become familiar with the "Lindsay and Fergus Effect" which basically means if we are in town, things are closed or no longer exist.

There wasn't much else to do but return to to the hotel then go and grab some dinner. We went to an Italian restaurant for some pasta which was lovely, and had an early night.

In the morning, we grabbed a taxi to the bus terminal which was quite a way out of town. There were two bus companies that had buses leaving soon to Puerto Iguazu, and as both were the same price, we took the earlier bus. Unfortunately this bus didn't take the most direct route, so what we expected to take 5 or 6 hours, actually took 8.

It was a lovely day and there was some beautiful scenery as we wound our way through lush green forest as we got closer to the north of Argentina. The almost full moon rising was a spectacular sight, and got us really excited about the full moon walking tour we planned to do at the falls. However our late arrived in Puerto Iguazu unfortunately meant we missed the first game of the world cup, Brasil v Croatia.

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