The Iguazu falls - a lot of water
After leaving Mum and Peter, and after a night in Puerto Varas furiously downloading new music, Kerry and I headed back to Pucon for more volcano admiring. We had vague plans to climb volcan Llaima, alitle north of here, but after checking around we were put off by both the bad weather and the huge price tag to get a guide motivated to come with us (US250 each).
We spent an afternoon sliding amongst the trees on a local canopy slide trip, which was good fun. We met a guy who might be able to hook us up with a guide for the Llaima climb when we come back to Chile in a month or so....
Canopy sliding in Pucon
We tried a new hostel - while we were there an Australian couple in the room next door were robbed while they were eating dinner. Some bloke scaled the wall in the rain. We were lucky.
From Pucon we took an overnight bus back to Santiago and the next day we collected our Australian visas from the Santiago embassy (yeah, we are now residents!) and then flight to Buenos Aires, where we visited the tourist sites - the Recoletta, theLa Boca district and we managed to catch the a film, Sunshine, another winner from Danny Boyle.
La Boca district, Buenos Aires
Diego is obviously a bit desperate these days, La Boca
When we had had enough of BA, we booked ourselves onto our first long bus ride up to the Iguazu Falls, right on the border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. This was another experience we enjoyed so much the first time we were here, and had decided to come back for another visit (not the bus ride, the falls). We stayed at the Hostel Park, close to the bus station and enjoyed the swimming pool there for a couple of days. Then we took a bus across the border into Brazil, checked out their side of the falls and then headed off to Rio de Janeiro on an overnight bus.
The Devils Throat on the Brazilian side of the Falls
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Our 22 hour bus ride from Foz du Iguazu to Rio de Janeiro was not very comfortable (no full cama option available this time). Plenty of food and toilet stops though - buffet food sold by the kilo and breaded chicken lollypops, which were surpisingly tasty).
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