february 3 - 10

after a 2,5 hours boattour we entered uruguay at colonia, which looked like "little mendoza". a peaceful, quiet and nice little town, were cardrivers let you pass !!! we made a short stroll through the town and tried to get information for busrides to the beaches in the east. even in uruguay, you have to go to the busterminal and book your ticket there, so we had to go to montevideo to go further east.
finally we rented e small car ("el rochito") to go to the beaches, ok, expensive but very comfortable. we went to la paloma and found a nice campground in a park. you could walk to the beach in 2 minutes and we did some nice walks in the sun.
we spent also two days in punta del diablo cos the uru-guide said it has nice lonely beaches and is a non touristic place, still a little fishermansvillage. it was more like a hippiecamp and not non touristic, but the beaches were nice and we had a lot of fun in the water. after two nights we came back to la paloma because we liked the campground and the weatherforecast was a bit better for this region.

january 29 - february 3

during the long busride from salta to puerto iguazu we anticipated, what the meaning of tropical heat is. eva used the few stops for having a cigarette, while i stayed in the bus with aircon instead of being roasted outside in 40 degrees or more. besides i could barely move cos i had bad stomachaches the whole tour. finally we arrived next morning at puerto iguazu, a tiny, quiet village at the borders to brazil and paraguay and a guy from the hostel "el guembe" led us the way. we found the best hostel, we ever had, which was really clean and nice. there we met tania from denmark and made a short sightseeingtour through the centre with her. afterwards we relaxed at the hostel, where we found some nice books in the book exchange and had a little conversation with some germans, who did a "whole-argentina-in-two-weeks-tour" including torres del paine in chile for one day. eva got addicted to harry potter, one of our new books.


next day we went to the specteculous iguazu-waterfalls. we took the bus at 7:40 and entered twenty minutes later the national park. cos the park is one of the highlights in argentina, it was really crowded. busloads of tourists were carried up there, but the park was so amazing that they didn't bother too much. at noon it was too hot for strolling in the park, so we took the bus back to puerto iguazu and had some sandwichs for dinner.

the following day we went to the park again, to see the "garganta diabolo", the main waterfall. everybody wants to see it and it was like a queue, moving over gateways to the spot. but it was amazing. staring in the masses of water was kind of mesmerizing, if you were not always disturbed by people, who wanted to take their photo from the falls. afterwards we made a 3 kilometers hike to a little lake in the jungle, were we could take a bath and a shower under a small waterfall. lots of colourful butterflies were flying between wonderful flowers. we shared our delicious mango with a argentine couple and they gave us some plums. the best fruits you can imagine.

the last day in puerto iguazu was quiet lazy, cos i still had my bad belly and eva had her "harry potter".

next day we took our bus to buenos aires, we booked total cama, that meant, with seats you can transform into beds, tiny beds, but beds. we arrived early in the morning, just in time to catch the ferry to uruguay. we were glad, to leave the big city as fast as we could.