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Old Feb 4, 2012 | 4:54 am
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dcstudent
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Argentine Falls - Heat and crowds get to us

The cabbie that took us back to the Argentine falls did not skip the lines at immigration as all of the other cabbies we had did. He drove in the regular lines on both the Argentine and Brazilian side and as such we took over an hour to clear both sets of immigration.

We arrived the Argentine Falls at 2pm Argentine time and paid the entrance fee of $200AR or $47. We decided to keep this trip short because it was dastardly hot, amazingly humid and we were exhausted from the hiking on the Brazilian side and the heat. We walked on a trail called the green trail which took us through the jungle to the Cataratas station where we decided to take the paseo inferior (the lower trail). We chose the lower trail because all of the trails on the Brazilian side take you where you can see the top of the falls so we decided to take the trail where you walk towards the bottom of the falls. The inferior trail also is great because it takes you by some falls that you can't see from the Brazilian side or the Argentina high trail.

After the inferior trail we were just plain exhausted. For $120AR we caught a cab back to our hotel where we turned the air con all of the way up and took nice cool showers. We rested until dinner.

Being exhausted, we decided not to explore but just went back to La Misiones and ordered Pizza for take-out. Mrs. Dcstudent got a vegetarian pizza with broccoli, asparagus and tomatoes. I got a ham pizza. The pizzas were excellent but certainly not what you'd expect if you were used to NYC pizza. The crust was very crispy, there was hardly any sauce and tons of cheese and ham. Basically, my pizza was really an open-faced hot ham and cheese sandwich. Which, frankly, was awesome. Total cost $76AR ($17US).

After eating we collapsed by 9pm Argentine time and didn't wake until 7am Argentine time.
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