To Argentina, Buenos Aires

Rio de Janeiro was beautiful and it stayed that way, even after 10 full days of beach, rain and sun. But this trip is about travelling and seeing a lot of places, not just Rio de Janeiro. So Guido and I checked the weather, see if Florianopolis is any good: rain. Foz do Iguazu turned up to be quite good, so we took our bags and ran to the busstation: Foz do Iguzu, here we come.

Crossing the border into Argentine the next day (the busrides took 24 and a halve hour) was a cumbersome event. Checking out of Brasil, getting stamps in Argentine. The next day visiting the Brazilian side of the Iguazu waterfalls, you have to repeat the whole process, twice. Going in and out of Argentine. So while we were busy getting stamps into our passport, we thought it would be nice to visit Paraguay, so we did. Cidad del Este. As if you step into another world, from the second you cross the border. Dirty, dusty and busy: "Monkey country."

Two days later the better side of the waterfalls, Argentine side. Although both views are beautiful, you get much closer to the big falls from the Argentine side. We were warned to wear swimshorts, so we took that advice. Good advice, you get wet if the winds turns, just a bit to your side. A natural free shower.

From here on I started travelling alone again. Guido took a bus at 1pm on Monday 4 February to Rio de Janeiro, myself was sitting in the bus that day 3:30pm to Buenos Aires. In the bus I met some local people from B.A. (Buenos Aires), and although I don´t speak spanish, they didn´t speak english, they invited my to their houses. Why not, it´s another view of B.A. I left my bag at the hostel, and had lunch at a suburb some 40 minutes train drive out of the B.A. center. All diesel locomotives, they don´t use an electricity net to drive the train.

Tomorrow I will be seeing some of the B.A. center, and after this I get to the "vino". Mendoza, going to taste some good wines ;-). When that will be, I have no clue. Plans change as the come.

plannen kunnen veranderen,maar waarom zonder guido?
zien jullie elkaar later?

Nope, I go to Mendoza, Bolivia and Peru. He stays in Rio de Janeiro.

dacht dat jullie samen gingen reizen? wel leuk dat we weer eens een update krijgen :)

hallo olaf.zeer onder de indrük van foto,s en reis verslag.een vraag ,ik mag aannemen dat je niet elke dag

met al je financien rondloopt. Hoe werkt dat precies met cheques of kredietcard.Wil je dat vertellen?

ieder gaval vind ik het een heel gedurfde onderneming.veel sukses toegewenst.

Hey Olaf,al lang niets meer gehoord.
Beleef je op het moment niets spannends?

Als er niets gebeurd heb ik tijd om te schrijven, zit ik met mijn hoofd in spannende omgevingen, ga ik natuurlijk niet achter de pc zitten...

Ik loop niet met buitenlands geld rond opa, ik heb een pinpas (postbank), waarmee ik gewoon overal geld kan pinnen. Zo heb ik gewoon dollars in USA, reais in Brazillie en pesos in Argentinie. Heel simpel.