Our final night in Puerto Iguazu was spent at one of the restaurants in town as a treat for our frugal spending in the past couple of days. The hostel owner gave us a voucher so we could get two free caipirinhas at a certain restaurant so we headed there. As we are till on a budget, we shared a pizza and some chips and it was delicious. The most amazing thing about the meal was the treatment of a bottle of quilmes (lager) as if it were a bottle of wine. The wa...

The past few days in Puerto Iguazu have been really good. Yesterday, we visited the Argentinian side of Iguasu falls. The weather was pretty average but the falls themselves were fantastic. Obviously we have taken loads of photos but these can't really do justice to how massive the falls are and the number of huge waterfalls. There is a constant mist over the whole area and you can always hear the rumble of water falling wherever you are. One grumble would b...

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 t...