- Buenos Aires
- Buenos Aires
- Iguaçu Falls
- Patagonia
Buenos Aires
Our hotel in the city for our stay in Buenos Aires is 248Finisterra. It's a little "boutique" hotel in the middle of restaurant land. Perfect.
Tigre
Our tour guide took us to Tigre, on the River Plate estuary, and generally a recreation area. The river is just brown from the silt. Everything is supplied via barges, including drinking water.
Buenos Aires
Tango Dancing is an Argentinean passion. Even in the middle of the day in certain parts of the city, particularly in the artistic area near the docks.
This flower sculpture opens in the morning and closes at night - shame we did not see it in action
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The cemetery is a large site containing enormous family tombs packed together.
The old monastery that is part of the church overlooking the cemetery contained agate windows which have certainly stood the test of time. Very attractive!
The parks in the city contain very large ancient fig trees
The Iguaçu falls are located right up on the Brazilian/Argentinean border, to the upper right of Posadas.
The falls are enormous; lots on the Argentinean side and a large fall on on the Brazilian.
We are staying at the Sheraton Hotel inside the which has magnificent views of the falls. Inside the park all transport is 'free'. A train takes you from the upper section to the Devil's mouth falls. A long walk along the grid iron walkway (passing a basking cayman under a bridge) got us to the viewing point of the biggest circle of falls which extend into Brazil. The volume of water is almost incomprehensible.
After taking the train back we walked the Upper Falls circuit. Wonderful rainbows over the falls due to the angle of the evening sun. Hundreds of pictures already taken! Back to the hotel for a swim and rest - still very warm at 19:00.
The next morning our guide arrived to take us through the complexity of entry into Brazil and their national park. The falls on this side are bigger but not quite so interesting to see. Going through the jungle to the departure point for the boat, we saw a coti and a small deer and a beautiful humming bird. The boat ride is fine, and the shower under the minor falls (the 3 musketeers) was refreshing. Not quite white water rafting.
Back in Argentina we walked round the large Lower falls area. Again wonderful rainbows and so many falls to admire. The butterflies are glorious and plentiful, even in their autumn.
On our last morning we went back to the lower falls to catch the first boat across to the little island in the river.
Lots of steps down, a 2 min boat ride and lots of steps back up on the island for our last look at the largest falls on the Argentinean side.
An MP4 video of the falls can be downloaded here (if I manage to get it uploaded on this very slow connection!).
Ushuaia is the capital of Tierra del Fuego and the most southerly city in the world.
As a capital it has lot of traffic lights but little traffic...
The pictures below are from the Tierra del Fuego National Park. The distant hills are in Chile. A lovely walking area but prone to rain.
Ships in the port: our Antarctic cruise ship is the red one on the left!!
This train station is apparently the most southerly in the world. It was originally built by convicts who were tasked with logging the local forests. Now re-built and much shorter, it is a just a tourist attraction. We elected to do some walking rather than train riding.
Both the original and current trains come from England.