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The next morning we were up and raring to go, it was a glorious sunny day and so we skipped down to the bus stop, bought our ticket then waited for the bus to arrive. It seemed that it was going to be a very busy bus but thankfully with a bit of elbows from Roberta we managed to get a seat! The entrance to the Parque Nacional Iguazu is some 15 km out of town so even though the bus was fairly full, it still insisted on stopping with great frequency to cram a few more passengers on board! We finally pulled into the Parque and were thankful to get off a very hot and sticky bus, fortunately though the drivers seemed a lot more sane from the ones we’d experienced in Rio!

We had been told by the hostel owners to keep hold of our ticket as you could get in the next day for half price. We had also read the park was a lot larger on the

Argentine side and the sightseeing is better spread over 2 days. We paid our entrance fee and headed into the Parque, our first stop being the visitors centre which was very impressive. From here we followed the trail further into the park, we were amazed to see how much bigger the Parque was. There were a multitude of trails to be walked and some sites that didn’t include just magnificent waterfalls! We decided against taking the tourist train and took the green trail which leads through some amazing jungle type of landscape. Here we came across another coati who just appeared out of the rainforest and sauntered across the path in front of us!! From here we walked down to the start of one of the boardwalks where we were amazed and disturbed by the number of tour groups that were hovering at the starts of the trails. From what we had seen already Argentines were great socialisers and on mass they presented a very loud and boisterous group, so we weren’t too sure how best to avoid these big groups.