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South America 2005 - part IV

Buenos Aires, Uruguay, Iguazu Falls

Andreas Mayer
2005-12-03 18:22:43

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of a plan and soon got bored wandering about and went back to the hostel. Met up with Robert that night and we went to the trendy part of town. Good 'Roesti' dinner, interesting conversation about his 'problem' back home, then we bumped into some people I know from BA and went to some bar where we had far too much to drink. Staggered back home at 5.00 am in a bit of a state and predictably suffered the whole next day on my way back to BA where I was reunited with Dave, Jo and Rebecca once again.

London June 8/06/05

Well it looks like the above entry was the last in the diary so I will attempt to write up the remaining weeks from memory.

BA Yet again

Upon arrival back in BA said hi to the others and went straight to bed as still suffering from a bad hang-over. The next day chilled out and in the evening went to Opera Bay, a trendy club modelled on the Sydney Opera house. An OK night, I guess, but in sync with the other BA nights nothing special, drank too much again and again the next day was pretty much written off due to hang-overs and even watching River Plate play Arsenal in the evening failed to majorly lift my spirits.

Iguazu

Finally it was time for the fellowship to split up properly, Dave went back to Mendoza again (to see his girlfriend), Rebecca went back to London and Jo headed to Santiago to catch a flight back home to New Zealand.

I took a bus up to Iguazu falls, 16 hours or so, but I really enjoy the bus rides in Argentina, huge comfy seats, films, pretty good food, so I arrived in a good state in Iguazu, staying at the beautiful Hotel Inn (pool and all). Met some Irish guy who had alo just arrived so for the next two days we were hanging out, going to the falls, having beers, playing pool, going to town for dinner etc, I think I just really enjoyed travelling on my own again and meeting more travelers.

The falls were OK, pretty spectacular I guess, but similar to Moreno glacier far too poplar for my liking, tourists busses, board walks, that kind of thing, you just go to a lookout, take a picture and that is pretty much it.

Saw a nasty accident just before I left Iguazu, some car drove into a guy and a girl on a moped, just saw the girl flying trough the air and then lots of people screaming, I was quite shocked, it just made me realize how quickly things can change in life, the picture of the girl stayed with me for a few days but then I was back to my usual carefree self.