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I met up late morning with Valeria after having a great night’s sleep. Before meeting Thiciane, we had some time to bum around and eat lunch. After our extravagant feast the day before, we split 10 of what were basically mini pizzas. During our lunch, we had a really nice conversation. I had noticed a [...]

Valeria was happy to see a familiar face anyway after living in a foreign country for 9 months. But her birthday made her miss home even more. Although I wasn’t family or a native Argentine, I was still glad to be able to share the day with her and a couple friends.
We met around 8:30 [...]

The journey to Curitiba was uneventful, and that’s always a good thing when traveling. The Brazilian countryside was beautiful and exploding with summer green on the hillsides and in the trees, with a seemingly infinite sky mixed with bright blue and beautifully shaped clouds. We meandered along rather slowly and made 5-6 stops at various [...]

Leaving the hostel around 10 a.m., I had planned to go into Puerto Iguazu to do laundry and then go to Foz do Iguacu in Brazil to buy a bus ticket to Curitiba. However, the taxi driver was a good salesman and convinced me to let him take me to a hostel in Foz where [...]

I may have set a record for most days visiting Iguazu Falls. Most tourists come here and stay 1-3 days. I stayed a week and never grew tired of the views and more chances to practice taking pictures. I had hoped to do the moonlight tour of La Garganta del Diablo, but had a combination [...]

Today started out unorganized and confusing, but turned out well. First, I went to the Puerto Iguazu bus station to catch the Práctico to the Brazilian side. I must have been tired because I got on the bus and, after a few blocks, realized we were heading toward the Argentine Falls. I hadn’t been paying [...]

I hadn’t planned to visit the Argentine side of the park today. But being offered free entry, buffet lunch, and a pass to the boat ride, I couldn’t refuse.
We met up at 10 a.m. outside the grocery store in Puerto Iguazu. (I finally got smart about water and brought my water bladder and filled it [...]

I returned to the Argentine side of the Falls to view the parts of the park I had not seen the first time. First came the Circuito Superior. This circuit was distinct from the lower in that it provided a view from on top of the Falls and was much shorter. I thought there would [...]

Having completed the entire Circuito Inferior yesterday, I decided to cross over to the Brazilian side in order to get a different look at the park. The hostel workers warned me that getting to the Brazilian falls was more complicated and required taking 3 buses–1 from the hostel into town, another to cross the border, [...]