Buenos Aires to Iguassu Falls

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Monday 28 March

This morning we did a city tour of the main sights of Buenos Aires: the Recoletta cemetary, home of many ornate crypts for people who clearly didn't want to leave much money to their kids, including the legendary one of Evita Peron. Also the shanty towns which have grown up under all the main freeways - 2 and 3 storeys high, made out of whatever brick can be found. A couple of Victorians were not happy when I compared it to Melbourne. The tour guide was even more unimpressed with the Argentine Government and even less positive about the next election. It appears corruption will always be part of this country.

Stopped at the tourist trap of La Boca again and tried (unsuccessfully) to convert some Argentinian pesos to US dollars, because many outlets refuse to take their own currency! In the afternoon we took a boat ride on the Tigre delta to the north of the city, then spent the late afternoon again unable to find US dollars. Another Starbucks coffee helped restore order.

 This is dog walking in the expensive suburb of Recoletta.  $60 US gets your dog walked twice a day for a week.  They certainly weren't getting any individual attention, but they appeared to be well behaved and not fighting.

We took in a spectacular tango show that night - 3 course dinner, unlimited wine and the show for $US98 per person (had to borrow $ from someone else on the tour to pay as we couldn't buy any). Back to the hotel at 12.10am and collapsed ready to get up at 6.15am.

Tuesday 29 March.

We left sunny Buenos Aires at 7.30am. Flew to cloudy Iguassu Falls and on arrival our guide told us that the boat trips towards the base of the falls have all been cancelled pending an inquiry into the deaths of 2 Americans in a boat accident last week.

Undaunted, we walked over the river to the top of the most spectacular fall, the Devil's Throat, then back to other walkways which offer stunning views of much of the 2.7 kilometres of falls. Our ponchos got a workout when the threatening rain finally arrived. However, everyone gets wet, rain or shine because of the massive water spray when you come close. It is impossible to describe the size and the power of so many waterfalls (278 individual ones) and the photos don't do them justice.
We found out tonight that we are the babies on the tour, and we think that the oldest is 74.