Age of Aquarius

Our hostel is amazing. It is called the Hostel Inn and as soon as we arrived from the bus station we took one look at the outdoor pool and what appeared to be a five star hotel lobby and decided to stay another night before we even reached reception. The best part is that its only 12 US dollars a night. Wonderful! We met some cute little Irish lads who we have been hanging out with. They are named Mikey, John, and Patty... oh yeah, his real name is Patty. Awesome, I know! There is a cute little cabanna bar outside and the Irish boys and myself used that to our full advantage on Wednesday night. It was a BBQ buffet and impromptu party with Brazillian show girls that looked like Las Vegas show girls, but danced like strippers in their little sequined thongs and high feather head dresses, then they got the entire crown involved to do a dance and conga line and other ridiculous alcohol induced booty shaking activities. Our hostel is hosting a ship party tonight that Liz and I are going to, and I guess it goes out to this private island and on the boat there is a bar and a dj and dancing for only 25 pesos, which is about 7 US dollars. I am so happy to be here!






Liz and I have been treking around Iguazu for the past three days and it is absolutely wonderful. The weather is beautiful, sunny, tropical and warm. There are palm trees and tropical flowers and millions of butterflies. We spent about 7 hours each day traipsing around the national park of Iguazu. The waterfalls are so incredibly vast and absolutely amazing we couldnt get enough on the first day so we went back for round two yesterday. I think my favorite of the hundreds of falls was the Garganta de Diablo, which means the Devils throat! When you are standing over this gargantuan waterfall it feels like you could fall off the edge of the earth. The mist from the bottom is flying so high it is covering your body with the cold water and the impact from the bottom, hundreds of feet down is so loud you have to yell to be heard.

Garganta del Diablo!!!



I also got to swim under a cute little fall that was still 100 or more feet high, but it was tiny so my ulimate and untimely death wouldnt be via waterfall crushing. It was called the Salto Arrechea and was surrounded by a little natural swimming pond.

It took us about an hour to hike to it down a path that looked like it came out of an enchanted forest, My Little Pony style. Everything here is so green it looks like its glowing, and the butterflies travel in packs of hundreds, im not sure there are even enough names in the english language to classify all the different vast colors that the butterflies wear. If you stand really still they will land on you and you can have a little friend traveling with you for a while.



We are leaving this magical place tomorrow to head to Cordoba which is in the middle of Argentina. It is supposed to have a large student population. Im excited to find an English bookstore because I finished my book two days ago and have been kinda bored with this book Liz gave me, so I just started rereading the old book, haha. Anyone have any good book suggestions for when I get there?

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