Uruguay

It's time to write the last post about my adventures in South America. During my stay in Buenos Aires I decided to cross rio de la Plata and visit one more country on the continent. I took the ferry to Colonia del Sacramento and spent a couple of hours there. I walked in the old town part and enjoyed the sunny weather. The town is beautiful but I guess you could get bored pretty fast there - don't plan on spending more than a day there!

In the afternoon I went to Montevideo. I was lucky to find a spare free bed in a nice hostel from the first try and well, it was time to get a substantial dinner. I went to a supermarket to buy the tourist basics (bread, cheese and chocolate) and went to a very nice beach to eat. The view was spectacular! I didn't take any pictures since I'm not so good at making the right set up of the camera and just enjoyed my dinner and went for a long walk (at least 5 km) near the river. They had one big sidewalk from the port to the end of the town (more than 11km long) called "rambla" and it was full of people at 9pm. Everybody was running, biking, playing rugby or football - it was cool to see so many active people at the same place!
Unfortunately the weather on the next day wasn't so good but at least it didn't rain. I went to the old part of town and saw from the outside the stadium where the first World Cup's final has been played. It was a nice day and I returned late in the evening to Buenos Aires to enjoy my last couple of days in South America. Can't wait to go back again!!!

Iguazu

Here are we at the last stage of our trip to Argentina. After Patagonia it was time to hit the Iguazu waterfalls. The change in the weather was spectacular and it was super hot and humid in the jungle. They have a very specific rain forest there because of the crossing of rio Iguazu and rio Parana (the border between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil - you see it from Puerto Iguazu and it's cool). Unfortunately, the human kind is not well known for its intelligence and only maybe 5 to 10 % of the original surface of the rain forest is left (and of course it's in the national parks). We went to both the Argentinian and the Brazilian sides of the waterfalls and it was amazing. There's a lot more to do and see in the Argentinian side (you can also take a shower under a waterfall if you take a boat ride!) because you are under and in the waterfalls. On the other hand, from Brazil there is a very nice panoramic view but you have to pay extra if you want to do something else besides the short tour. We also went to Ciudad del Este in Paraguay to see the free zone and it was a strange experience, maybe because we don't like to get bothered by people every 2 meters trying aggressively to sell us something... We also saw Itaupu, one of the biggest dams in the world and it was spectacular. Enough talk, more pics!