Around the World

Time to catch up on Argentina. We flew in from Lima, Peru and took a cab to our hotel. Our hotel is small with only about ten rooms. It is not particularly centrally located in Buenos Aires, but it came highly recommended by Trip Advisor. We spent two days catching up on sleep and checking out the area around our hotel. Buenos Aires has lots of beautiful colonial era buildings, but sadly may are badly defaced with graffiti. The spanish style is to have buildings directed inward, often the only distinguishing feature of a building will be its front door, yet inside there may be a beautiful mansion. Our hotel was an old mansion that was converted to a hotel. the staff is very helpful.

Our next step was air excursion to Iguazu Falls. We took a bus from the center of Buenos Aires as part of a tour. The tour was pretty loosely organized. We were given bus tickets and not much in the way of instructions. The bus is beautiful, double decker, reclining seats, meals served aboard (kind of crappy meals). The trip is about 18 hrs. We arrive in Iguazu without a clue what to do next, we are supposed to have transfers to our hotel, but no idea how to do that. We stopped at a tourist info booth and the man there was kind enough to make a few calls and in about fifteen minutes a driver appeared. That's when Linda realized she had left her purse aboard the bus, which was now gone. We were eventually able to let our driver, who spoke no English, know what had happened with the help of the gentleman in the info booth. We chased down the bus to the place it was being refueled. We found Linda's purse, but later discovered that there was no longer any money in it. Possibly $200.

We got to our hotel for some well deserved rest. The next morning we were picked up by our guide  for our tour of Iguazu Falls. The tour was great the falls were awesome. We debated whether to take the optional boat trip to the base of the falls but finally decided to do so. The boat excursion was amazing, affording some great vies of the falls. Unfortunately much of the trip was too wet to take pictures. We were both soaked to the bone, but it was hot so the water was welcome. Fantastic trip.

Tomorrow it is back on the bus and back to Buenos Aires.