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    • Lisa WilliamsTravelerBrazil

      Itaipú Dam

      April 21, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      All these big waters mean hydroelectric potential. So we swapped one of nature's wonders of the world for an engineering one. It's very big and produces the most power thanks to the Paraná river. Bit hard to take interesting photos of!

      Back to the pool for more swimming and news of shock celebrity deaths - yesterday it was Victoria Wood, today it was Prince.

      Tonight we fly to Rio and we are both very excited.      Read more

    • Lisa WilliamsTravelerBrazil

      Parque Das Aves

      April 20, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      Across the road from the entrance to the falls park is a fab bird park/sanctuary where we spent a lovely couple of hours. Some birds are rescued from illegal hunters, maltreatment etc and many are in huge enclosures that you get to walk through. They fly or walk right past you.

      Our favourites were the toucans - they are so cute! The macaws were colourful and very loud. The harpy eagles were huge, most unusual looking and more than a bit scary.

      Lovely afternoon topped off by lying by our pool, going to the gym and drinking beer on our bar stools in the pool. Fabulous day!      Read more

    • Lisa WilliamsTravelerBrazil

      Another view of the falls

      April 20, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

      Wow. What a breakfast buffet. There must have been ten different fresh juices and even more types of breads plus hot stuff, cheese, ham, fruit. Did we at we are enjoying our hotel?

      Trip to the falls was once again breathtaking and we got to see the panoramic views of Argentina you can't see from Argentina - makes sense when you think about it.

      Lots of almost circular rainbows too. You are much closer in fact the amount of spray and vapour makes you feel like you are in it. Clare has a million photos.      Read more

    • Lisa WilliamsTravelerMisiones and Corrientes
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      Farewell Argentina we loved you

      April 19, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

      We both felt sad that today we left Argentina and we are moving on to the last stage of the trip - Brazil.

      After breakfast we had the joy of driving back up the track and finding our mechanic Hector in El Sorbebio. He did not know we were coming as the lodge had not managed to speak to him (there is very rarely a phone signal here). I was dreading it but actually he was lovely and stopped working on all his other cars to help two strangers. We did a test drive then he put the car in the workshop and went under it. He started banging with a wrench I think, a lot.

      He solved it too. Seems the Iberá mud had set like concrete on the wheels and the car wash had been a superficial one. He reckoned that water might not have worked anyway. One hour later we were on our way - at 110 kph - to Iguazú.

      As we drove through the national park a toucan flew right in front of us. Very exciting!

      After some last minute shopping to use up our pesos we felt the relief of giving the car back and got in the taxi transfer to the Brazil side. Crossing this border was so much easier and faster than any other this trip. Next challenge was to take Brazilian Reais out of a cash machine - Clare passed with flying colours. Then we arrived at our huge and quite fancy hotel with a huge pool, swim up bar and a gym. They also gave us a free upgrade so we already loved the place.

      We enjoyed stable wifi, air conditioning, the gym, pool, swim up bar in that order. I (Lisa) was very pleased to be able to run 5k without stopping or dying because I hadn't been able to run since Mendoza.

      Tomorrow we are off to the Brazilian side of the falls.      Read more

    • Lisa WilliamsTravelerMisiones and Corrientes

      Moconá Waterfalls

      April 18, 2016 in Argentina ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      Last thing we wanted to do today was drive - especially back out on that dirt road. Thankfully our tour to the main attraction here - the Moconá waterfalls - included our guide also being the driver. He came in a new Ford Focus so it was very tricky driving on the track.

      It's quite low season here now so we were the only visitors to the park and had a tour and boat ride to ourselves. There were thousands of butterflies everywhere, like in Iguazú. We were lucky as there is only water flowing 70/365 days a year due to a dam upstream which controls the flow. These falls are different than most others because they are a continuous 3 km long and run parallel to the river not across it. The Uruguay river is also the natural border between Argentina and Brazil here.

      After our trip we returned to Yucuma but to save the car we did the canoe crossing rather than drive the track. The canoe had a massive spider in it but we survived. Our tour guy was from the agency which rented our car so he had a look too but couldn't fix it. Instead we have the joy of a trip to a mechanic in the next town tomorrow to check it and see if its safe to drive back to Iguazú.

      It was so hot this afternoon we could barely move. At one point we sat with sweat dripping from our chins. No AC and the fans just move warm air. We went to the pool but being under the jungle canopy it filled up with bugs, leaves and twigs faster than we could scoop them out. Plus the mosquitos were having a party there. We went and laid down til our very lovely dinner.      Read more

    • Lisa WilliamsTravelerMisiones and Corrientes

      From wetlands to jungle

      April 17, 2016 in Argentina ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      Adventurous drive out of Iberá on even worse road conditions than getting there. In total we spent 9 hours driving and 1 hour trying to sort out problems with the car.

      Although we didn't get stuck this time when we finally came to the paved road the car vibrated in a bone-shaking way whenever we went beyond 70 kph. As we were not too far from the city of Posadas we went to Hertz in the airport but it was deserted. I tried to call but they'd given me a wrong number and I used all my credit.
      Eventually as we drove away a woman chased us in her car and flagged us down. She was from Hertz and came to help. She said it was probably mud in the wheels causing the issue and instructed us on where to go to get it professionally cleaned.

      We thought we'd solved it but didn't get to go fast again for another hour or so and we still had more than a hundred km to go. Decided to limp there at slow speed. Scenery over the Uruguay river to Brazil was stunning. The last part was another track (10km) but it was still light and very pretty.

      Arrived at Yucuma Lodge to find we were the only guests (again) so dinner was a very intimate affair, with very good food. It's made up of rustic wooden buildings set in thick jungle alongside a river. Smells a bit damp - think it's still drying out from being completely submerged in floods two years ago.      Read more

    • Lisa WilliamsTravelerMisiones and Corrientes

      Iberá first evening

      April 15, 2016 in Argentina ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      Once we'd finally arrived at the right lodge & settled in, went for an dusk walk through the forest and on a boardwalk over the marshes. The Iberá wetlands are 1.3million hectares of pristine freshwater marshes. In the forest we saw howler monkeys, giant snails & hoof prints of wild pigs. On the boardwalk we saw more fabulous capybaras just chilling & sunning themselves in the pools. As it had been recently raining here were swarms of dragonflies and in the floating island were little caiman.Read more

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