The Argentinian Falls - Day 36 and 37

We were both very sad to leave Buenos Aires - it was a great city, so easy to get around.  It is a grid system so you never get lost and the Metro system was so straightforward it was nearly as easy as the one in glasgow.

We had such a lovely apartment too with a great Landlord - Juan, who was on holiday from work so every time we saw him he looked like he had been up all night drinking and as it turned out he usually had!  Palermo Soho was the area we stayed in an I would highly recommend it, really nice area to walk around at night with no worries and lots of bars and restaurants - didn't have an ATM that worked though!  my only problem with BA was how difficult it was to get money out of a bank but Rio was a little bit like that too.

We headed off to catch our lunchtime flight to Puerto Igauco which is the Argentinian side of the falls we saw last week.

We arrived at the hotel too late to head to the falls so instead we headed to the pool and I booked in for a massage - yippee!!! I love when I have time for a massage!  I had a beautiful hot stone massage and was on another planet when I went out to meet Mark at the pool although he was tucking into the local beer so he was quite happy.  I think everyone should have a massage at least once a month - its so important to help you relax but it also helps to eliminate toxins out of the body, if you have a massage regularly it can also help you to lose weight - when I have a weekly Manual Lymph Drainage massage I usually lose about 2lbs a week.  Now thats my idea of going on a diet - lying on a table and someone massaging me.

We went off the the falls the next day, getting the local bus up to the national park.

Is this where 'Somewhere over the rainbow' came from?  not often we are above a rainbow.....  Don't think these people even realised the special position they were in....

he's a big boy! a huge iguana just walking by us - not even acknowledging us !!!

here I am touching the rainbow - is that rude?!  thank god I wasn't wear white as I think I might have taken the miss wet shirt title!!!!

You can't go to the falls and expect to come away dry!  here we are a couple of argentinian wetties!!!

here is one of the wide shots of the argentinian falls - it really was spectacular!

and a wee cutie to finish off...

just hanging about eating a banana skin!!!

The falls were more spectacular that the brazil side just because you could get so much closer to the top of them, a really impressive new seventh wonder of the natural world!

After the falls we headed over the border and on the advise of the hotel tried to get a taxi at the border to take us to our hotel as it wasn't far from the border so no point in going all the way into town on the bus to get a different bus out but getting a taxi was easier said than done.  We had a border guard helping us as he kept an eye out for empty taxis coming over the border but after 30 minutes we had no luck so I phoned the hotel and luckily they had once of their transfer vans just about to pass the border so we jumped in that and got to the hotel within minutes.

The hotel was nice and had a big pool so off we went to put our sizzling bodies into the pool - we both had a bit of sun burn as the sun was really hot at the falls.

We are up at before stupid o'clock (3.30am) to get our flight to Sao Paulo and then our bus transfer to Paraty to the beach so off to bed to catch a few hours sleep.

suzxxx