Iguazu & Inertia

Went to Iguazu Falls last weekend. Bren, Dave and I took an 18 hour bus from BA to Puerto Iguazu on Thursday and arrived on Friday. Although the ride was long, the argies don´t really have any trains so they know how to bus it in style. The seats are like big Lazy Boys and if you knock back a couple of sleeping tablets you can get a good nights kip on the bus. Plus, its full service like on a plane. You get your dinner, your brekkie and a plethora of snacks and drinks in between. They also show movies in English so the whole experience isn´t altogether that bad. (especially if you´re into Jean Claude Van Damme movies)

So we arrived in Puerto Iguazu to find that the fact that we had driven due north for 18 hours makes a big difference to the temperature. The weather was stunning ... and our hostel had a pool as well, so we duly planted ourselves beside it and started knockin´ back the pina coladas... To tell you the truth, I hadn´t seen the sun for some time before that, so it was a very welcome surprise.

We took it easy the first night so that we would be bright eyed and bushy tailed for the following mornings hike of the Iguazu Falls. We actually managed to get out of the hostel at 9am the next day and attacked the Falls on a beautiful Saturday morning.

Because its the off-season here (it being winter as you may gather from the pics), the crowds were very manageable indeed and we had a great day walking around the various routes and circuits that let the masses ogle the falls.

The falls themselves are pretty impressive. I´d love to give you all the natural and geological stats but I don´t know them. What I do know is that its a very impressive amount of water splashing down and it is absolutely awesome to see. They´re also very accessible, as in you can get great views of them from all around the valley below.

And when you´re not looking at the waterfalls, you´re looking at the subtropical rainforests through which you wander on the circuits... We saw monkeys, in fact monkeys pelted us with apples... and we also saw toucans from afar (that was my objective for the day, to see a toucan - the guinness bird).

So we did our day at the falls, and then we just relaxed by the pool in the hostel for a couple of days (a chance to turn my milkbottle white to ruby red). The lads split to Rio on Monday and I decided that I would stay in Iguazu until Wednesday but accidently came back to BA a day earlier because I didn´t realise what day it was. (More photos of the falls here).

On a more sombre note, when I got back to BA, I realised that my new room which I had been promised, had been given away to a Frenchman in my absence. Furthermore, my efforts to find gainful employment have reached an all-time low as I haven´t had a single positive reply from any of my applications. Hence the inertia... I´m not quite sure what I´m going to do now, but having got my first taste of the sun, I think that I might head north fairly soon (in two weeks or so) and just land myself in some kind of wildlife sanctuary or something where I can chill out for a couple of months... the weather in BA is not really playing ball either...

That´s all for the time being. Eins will Ich aber noch sagen, die Deutsche Einheit die diesen Blog liesst soll auch ruhig Kommentare hinterlegen denn Ich weis dass Ihr da seid.

Am going to ponder my future for a couple of days and I´ll get back to you with an action plan as soon as I come up with one.

Oh yeah, and see the albums for more pics of Iguazu.