the saga continues

Well we did finally make it to Iguazu falls in Argentina. Our flight from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Aires was delayed somewhat, meaning we missed our connection to Iguazu. We somehow managed to break through the thick wall that is Aerolineas Argentinas customer relations and got them to put us on the first flight out the next morning, and put us up in a hotel for the night. Overall the experience was fairly satisfactory - except for the whole aspect of being delayed and having deposits on hostel bookings forfeited and so forth.

The Iguazu Falls themselves are amazing. Diverting the flow for about 20 minutes to Australia somehow would likely relieve all of Brisbane´s water woes, and likely half of Sydney's as well.

...That may not actually be exactly true, but the flow of water there is stupendous. Our first afternoon there we went to the top of the 'Gargantuan del Diablo', falls so large, high and of such volume that the mist and splashback produced obscures most of itself from view and is capable of drenching onlookers at the slightest change of breeze.

The next morning we returned and took the boat underneath the falls. The view up from below is incredible to the point of oppresiveness, a point exceeded when the boat drives *into* the falls. Needless to say we got drenched, and left little puddles behind whenever we sat down for most of the rest of the day, a phenomenon fortunatly concluded by the time we boarded our flights back to Buenos Aires.

From what we´ve seen of Buenos, the main adjective capable of describing it is 'huge'. It stretches of in every direction, street after suburb after district of straight streets and slightly crumbling art deco apartment blocks. We have to rest of today here and then tomorrow - and then we fly home! Though the trip has been surpassingly excellent we all feel it will be good to get home.

Anyway, The photos: Iguazu Falls, ArgentinaIguazu Falls, Argnetina

The Two Amigos, Atacama Desert, near San Pedro, Chile

Villacamba Volcano, near Pucon, Chile.

Anyway, theres a good chance this will be our last entry before we get back to Australia. We would like to thank you all for reading and showing such an interest in our adventures, your comments were a little touch of home that was of great comfort. No doubt we'll have some kind of extended period of adding photos and so forth once we return, so stay tuned!

-chao