Concordia stop over and travel to Iguazú

Busses are the essential means of long distance travel in South America and on this day (and two nights) we made good use of them. Starting off with a six hour ride from Montevideo to Salto at 23:30, where we hoped for reclining seats. We were looking forward to a good night's sleep, but for some reason the buses ACs are always set to freezing temperature and the seats being only semi cama did not reclined enough for a good night’s sleep.

After arriving in Salto in the early morning, we grabbed some breakfast and took a local bus across the border to Concordia, where we played the fun game of "how high will the stack of Argentinian pesos be that you get at Western Union". We were delighted to see that the prices in this more remote part of Argentina were still incredibly cheap and treated us to a lavish lunch with grilled delights and red wine for only 7 EUR per person.

Since we were incredibly tired from the lack of sleep of the night before, we headed out to the local park San Carlos to take a nap in our hammocks, which worked well for a couple of hours until we got kicked out for violating some unknown no-hammock policy 🤷

We headed back to the terminal and waited for our next overnight bus, for which we had splurged and bought "cama ejecutivo" seats that can be reclined up to 170 degrees, hoping for a better sleep experience for this 12 hour journey than the night before. But once again we were treated to what felt like sub-zero temperatures and the seats were not as comfortable as we hoped...or maybe it was just our old backs not being able to cope with 2 nights of half seated sleeping in a row 🤷‍♀️
This bus would take us all the way to Puerto Iguazu in the province Misiones, where we spent the next days exploring the famous falls.

🚌 Distance travelled: 1400 km
⏳️ Time spent on busses: 18 h
💤 Hours slept in two nights: 5 (L), 10 (T)
🥶 Night time temperature on busses: maybe 10 degrees? 🤔🧊
🍖 Parilla quality in Concordia: 10/10
💵 Height of Western Union stack: 7 cmRead more