As we get closer to the end of our journey we are trying to cram in as much as possible. The last post I wrote was in Mendoza we had just arrived off the long haul buss from San Juinin(Don't go there it sucks). Any ways Mendoza is the wine country of Argentina. Many people come all around the world just to taste the wines of Mendoza. The first day we just hung out and cruised around the city. The Next day our Aussie. buddy Sara arrived Aaron Sara and I went to a very small aquarium and snake exhibits (not really large enough to be called a zoo. Nothing really all that exciting. The following day we hired a far and drove all up in the Mountains of Mendoza and saw the Inca ruins. They were covered in kind of a yellow slime which was created by the sulfur and ash from local volcanic activity. We originally planned to stay the last night but our Vineyard bike tour was canceled due to the fact the tour company's minimum was not met. So after watching movies earlier in the day (Australia,Slum Dog) with our new found Argentinian friend we said our good buys again. Then Aaron and I hoped on a buss to Rosario which was several hours.
Rosario was not to exciting except for the amazing monument. The day we got in to Rosario there was a 1/2 marathon which would have been fun if I would have known several weeks earlier. The 2ND day we walked around the massive markets that went for miles of people selling all there arts and home made souvenirs and stuff. I originally planned so see Sarah at some point but we were running out of time and Sarah had other things going on. The next morning we took another 18hour buss to Iguazu. I'm not sure why all the buses seem to be 18hours but that's just the distance to many of the far places. But this buss was by far the worst. They were blasting the air conditioning with no blanket and the seats didn't go back much at all and I think we probably were eating the people who died on the buss the night before for dinner. (haha not really but definitely seemed that way.) The whole way I was freezing my ass off.
We Finlay arrived in iguazu falls. We went to a hostel which wanted us to come back later and check in, which is usually the case but we were eager to get to the falls. So we just walked about 5 minutes back to the buss station and stored our huge bags for the day and decided to hop a buss to the Iguazu nation park. Once we arrived we got on a small train which took us to the main fall which is in the new Indiana Joans Movie. The falls were dry because there has been a drought but we didn't notice at all but lots of the locals were pretty shocked at how low the falls were. We continued to walk around the park and i heard a ruffling in the palm tree and noticed a cat with a snout was falling out of the tree. It was a Coati! Lots of them. We then continued to descend down to the base of the falls where we took a boat across to a very small island where I was please to dive into the 3ft deep place for tourists to swim. It was amazing getting wet after being in the hot 85-90ish F humid weather. After walking a long while we wondered around and saw they had a buffet with live music, which was a litte pricey for Argentina and our budgets but we worked way to hard to come to Iguazu we figured we better treat our selves, and the food was DAMN good. As the day turned into night we got on the buss back to La Terminal where guess what we did next?................... We decided not to stay the night and take a buss to Buenos Aries ... and YES it did take 18 hours. With a nice hot meal melenase and rice YUMMY with a good movie in a nice cozy Camma (Chair folds out) with a pillow and a blanket. Within the first hour we began to watch 21 which is a great movie by the way. I couldn't have been happier. I soon was out like a rock and woke up in Buenos Aires.
Today it has been raining all day since our arrival and I have just been hanging out not doing much just taking it easy. Tomorrow I'm off to explore Buenos Aires again I'm excited. As for school I have completed all the work I have on me With A's WOO HOO so once I get home I get rewarded with lots more... YIPPEE
You Could Take a boat under this part of the fall and get really wet!
The Coati Sliding/Falling out of the tree
CIAO LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL LOTS~
CIAO LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL LOTS~
Mike
Mike, your adventures are amazing!!! You are seeing some of the world's most amazing sites, you are very lucky, and all before 17!! Great work on school stuff - you'll have to take a little study chill when you get home. Cant wait to see you and hear stories. xxxxxx
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