Well what a ride we have just been on. It all started on Wednesday at Machu Picchu where we caught a train for 2 hours to Ollantaytambo. We then jumped in a cab for an hour and a half to Cusco. The cab only cost $5nz each but almost cost us our lives. At 10pm we caught a bus from Cusco to La Paz in Bolivia. Finally arrived in La Paz at 1pm that afternoon and left for a 20 hour bus ride to the south border that afternoon. On friday night we arrived at the border and walked across to Argentina. We bussed for 5 hours to Jujuy then waited until 2am on Saturday morning for our bus to Tucuman. We arrived in Tucuman at 7am then waited another 6 hours for our bus to leave for Iguazu Falls. This ride was our longest, taking 21hours 15mins.
After all this we had:
- travelled 3200kms
- been on a bus for 70 hours
- slept a total of 20 hours in 5 days
- waited in bus stops for 27 hours
- worn 1 pair of undies
- had 0 showers
- been from cape reinga to the bluff and back again!
Here we are now at the mighty Iguazu Falls. The waterfall system consists of 275 falls along 2.7 kilometers of the Iguazu River. It´s the worlds largest waterfall when measuring cubic metres of water per second.
We explored it with JP and Kylie from Australia and it was unbelievable - took a jet boat ride to the heart of the ´devils throat´ gargantum del diablo, getting saturated in the process. Loved it but something you have to be there to appreciate the sheer size and violence of it.
The temperatures in the mid 30´s here and got up to 39 so we´re in the pool most of the day except El can´t swim yet with her tummy cuts.
Off to Rio de Janerio tomorrow YAY! Will be even hotter
