South America 2007

Had a bit of a reunion in Rio and met up with the original group I was travelling with in Peru which was really nice, including Previn (Sorry didnt have a chance to catch up with you and say goodbye before I left Previn, hope your project goes well dude) Headed to Foz do Iguacu with Chris, Alex, Louise and Gill. We spent two nights on the Brazilian side of the falls in an amazing hostel that had a swimming pool and spent a couple of days walking around the falls, was lush. Even tried out our hitch-hiking skills as couldn´t be arsed to wait for the bus and managed to get a lift both times.

Foz do Iguacu was beautiful, 275 different waterfalls that crash 80M into the Rio Iguacu, incredible. The pictures speak for themselves...

Chris and I decided to parasend of a wall, which was the best buzz ever. The guys thought I was nuts when I started getting all hyper and spitting out a thousand words a second when I relized I was going down the mountain rather than across, brilliant adrenaline rush!

After 2 nights on the Brazilian side we crossed the border over to Argentina to take a closer look at the falls as the Brazilian side offers more of a grand overview. Whilst looking lost and waiting for a bus a deaf guy started helping Chris and I by typing questions into his mobile phone, how helpful is that?! Chris and I then met an argentinian couple to share a taxi with and again they gave me all their contact details for when I arrive in Buenos Aires, latinos are so unbelievably friendly!

The Argentinian side of the falls was equally as impressive and we took a couple of boat rides under the falls...

So I finally convinced the others to come into Paraguay with alot of persuasion techniques to get off the Gringo trail. Statistics show that roughly only 250 Brits a year go to Paraguay compared to about 160,000 that go to Brazil. There´s not even a British embasy there, well apparantly there´s nothing there, but we´re just about to find out, let the adventure begin...