Veeeeeeeeeery sloooooooooow internet connection, so this won't be a long note as, really, life is too short for 10mbps to do its thing.

We're at the Brazilian border, in the jungle basically, so i should be thankful for any internet connection. trip up - the most comfortable bus i have ever been on. only problem was the dying video played for 6 hours. the first film - and also the point at which i plugged myself into my music and book, was about aliens who had brought a dinosaur 500 times the size of a tyranosaurus back to earth to take over.

but Iguazu is worth the trip a hundred times over. OH MY GOD. I have never ever seen anything like the falls. hundreds of millions of litres of chocolate coloured water tip themselves over several hundred feet every minute. just staggering. so what on earth possessed me to get in a boat that takes you to sit UNDER one of these falls is completely beyond me. some fool aka Marv persuaded me. we got wet. i suffered abject terror. he quite enjoyed it. and now i have a story to tell as well as wet pants. hurrah!

we've just planned the next bit of our epic trek across this enourmous bit of the earth. we head off for tucuman on a 20 hour bus ride tomorrow. then to mendoza for some wine action, and some walking in the andes.

'Suitable Boy' = page 850
Kilometres travelled = 12,000 (Madrid - Buenos Aires) plus 1500 (Buenos Aires - Iguazu) and counting...

xx