Today we have successfully completed our first overland border crossing. It shouldn't have been too hard really considering it only really takes getting two stamps in our passports. We did however manage to make it difficult!

The first issue was the weather. We had thunderstorms last night which went on pretty much all night and all morning. The thunder and lightning was pretty spectacular and some mad Scottish people decided it would be a good idea to pitch a tent in the garden of the hostel. Rather them than us!! However it was still lashing down when we left the hostel to catch the local bus to the border. We waited and waited and waited until a bus heading for the border came around the corner. Out stretches our arms for the bus but the driver just drove on by! Retreating for some shelter a couple of yards away we both cursed and thought that the next bus would be another 40 minutes. However, about 5 minutes later along comes another bus only for us to be caught off guard and having to sprint to try to let the driver know we wanted to jump on. Luckily for us he took pity and done an emergency stop into the junction just after the bus stop and us clowns ran up the street to hop on.

The actual exit from Brazil was really straight forward and took approximately 30 seconds. We hurried back to wait for the bus with a Turkish girl. After waiting for 20 minutes another bus came rolling by and after waving out arms around it again refuses to stop. Confused, we sighed and kept our eyes on the road. 15 minutes passes and we spotted another bus. Just to make sure we waved our arms around even more frantically and the Turkish girl nearly martyred herself by jumping in front of the bus but it again refused to stop. After consulting the border people that advised that we needed to wait for a special bus ( probably one for tourists) and after approximately an hour we caught the right bus to head to the Argentinean side of the border.

We were able to pass though pretty easy and arrived at the bus station in Puerto Iguazu at about 12. We easily found the hostel and managed to change our remaining Brazilian money on the black market an withdraw some cash.

We then booked our bus to Buenos Aires for Thursday thanks to some master haggling from Beth. After some tough negotiations she managed to save us £6 on the super luxurious seats. Should be good for a 17 hour journey. The rest of the day has seen us walk around the town, make some food and hopefully manage to book a private apartment for our week in Buenos Aires

Tomorrow we are visiting the Argentinian side of the falls which is meant to be even more spectacular than the Brazilian side. Must be alright then!