We’d enjoyed our time in Paraguay. We returned the car miraculously without incident which was a relief and caught a taxi to the tiny border back to Argentina. The heavens opened before we set off and the taxi drove through deeply flooded roads, mounting curbs where possible to keep his engine out of the deep muddy waters.
We took the same basic ferry across the river and back to Argentina. Again Neil started chatting to a nice looking man with a large Toyota Hilux and plenty of room for our luggage and asked him to give us a lift back to the hotel where we’d stayed before. It was no problem at all. He was a forest ranger and knew all the forests around Argentina including Tierra del Fuego.
The hotel welcomed us back where we rested 5 hours before walking back into town to catch our bus to Buenos Aires. Miraculously the rain abated until we were safely inside the terminal then the heavens opened again.
This time the bus was brand new and fantastic! We had to produce our passports as ID. Our luggage was tagged just as for a plane journey and were shown to our huge reclining seats upstairs. It felt just like business class on a plane, to the extent that every time the bus hit a pothole, I felt the plane was landing. It even had a TV screen showing some great films subtitled in Spanish. We’d left our earphones below in our luggage so read our books instead. To our happy surprise the attendant brought us a hot meal on a tray and offered as much Malbec wine as we liked! We had a great journey and arrived at Buenos Aires rested and ready for our long ferry journey to Uruguay.
Exciting… And you’ve only just started! Wouldn’t be a true adventure without a few brushes with the cops, the odd tornado, plenty of surprises and lots of good food and drink! Where to next?
South America 
Oops! Day 9 posted on the previous set of photographs should have been here.
LikeLike
Day 10
We’d enjoyed our time in Paraguay. We returned the car miraculously without incident which was a relief and caught a taxi to the tiny border back to Argentina. The heavens opened before we set off and the taxi drove through deeply flooded roads, mounting curbs where possible to keep his engine out of the deep muddy waters.
We took the same basic ferry across the river and back to Argentina. Again Neil started chatting to a nice looking man with a large Toyota Hilux and plenty of room for our luggage and asked him to give us a lift back to the hotel where we’d stayed before. It was no problem at all. He was a forest ranger and knew all the forests around Argentina including Tierra del Fuego.
The hotel welcomed us back where we rested 5 hours before walking back into town to catch our bus to Buenos Aires. Miraculously the rain abated until we were safely inside the terminal then the heavens opened again.
This time the bus was brand new and fantastic! We had to produce our passports as ID. Our luggage was tagged just as for a plane journey and were shown to our huge reclining seats upstairs. It felt just like business class on a plane, to the extent that every time the bus hit a pothole, I felt the plane was landing. It even had a TV screen showing some great films subtitled in Spanish. We’d left our earphones below in our luggage so read our books instead. To our happy surprise the attendant brought us a hot meal on a tray and offered as much Malbec wine as we liked! We had a great journey and arrived at Buenos Aires rested and ready for our long ferry journey to Uruguay.
LikeLike
Exciting… And you’ve only just started! Wouldn’t be a true adventure without a few brushes with the cops, the odd tornado, plenty of surprises and lots of good food and drink! Where to next?
LikeLike
tornadoes and floods and torrential rain!!! LOVELY you say!!!! Then luxury travel. And then in Buenos Aires! Brill.
xxx
LikeLike