Friday, December 21, 2007

We missed a bus...

Well, not really missed. Here you can not buy bus tickets via internet/phone so the only option is to come to the bus station and buy it on the spot.
When we came to Sao Paulo station on Tuesday of course we didn't get tickets for the evening bus and we had to spend a night in S.P. Not much to see, didn't like it. But we had some time to arrange our flight from Foz do Iguasu (this is where we are now) to Slavador (Bahia). Believe it or not, if you are a foreigner here, you can not book a flight via internet, so you have to arrange it in a tourist agency. And they even didn't accept our VISA cards so we had to look for an ATM. Not an easy job at all, as not all of ATMs accept VISAs and they also have a daily withdrawal limit. Huh!!! OK, we have our plane tickets now - cca 500 EUR for flight from Foz to Ilheus and afterwords with bus to Salvador. Couldn't get direct flight :( So, people, if you are travelling to Brazil, arrange an air pass for internal flights in advance. It will save you a lot of time and money. Not to mention the nerves!
So... After one night in Sao Paulo and 16h of unconfortable ride on a bus, at 6am today we arrived to Foz. We´re staying in a cool hostel in the middle of nowhere - plenty of funny big frogs jumping around and quite some weird insects tambem :)
We saw Brazilian side of the falls today. We are going to the Argentinian side tomorrow. Waaaw!!! It really is amazing. Astonishing nature!!! Can't really describe it, but when you see the pics, you´ll know what I maean.
And today it's definitely the hotest day since we´ve arrived here. Veeeeery hot and humid. Probably because before we were complaining too much about the rain :) Well, hope I can get some sleep. Tomorow will be quite a busy day for us. After all, we are going to Argentina!!!!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Oi!

Kaj spite v Paudimarju ??
No tam. Na poti k slapovom je uni bus stop, kjer sta dva prijazna fantica, se bolj prijazno prosila za moj ruzak :-)

Enivej. Mal stresa s prevoznimi sredstvi more bit...ce tece vse gladko je dolgcejt.
Mi je pa glih kar pisal en frend, ki je zdej prisel iz Venezuele v Manaus, da so cene 2x, kot so ble vcasih...in on tudi benti zaradi polnih letal.

Torej vas je vec v istem zosu.
Slaba tolazba, vem.

Pozdravek

ajetaMateja said...

Ja ja, to je tisti hostel.Fuuuul je lusten. Prijaznikh fanticev, ki bi si zeleli nasih ruzakov sicer ne blo. Smo pa tam spoznale 4 simpaticne Svicarje. Boljs druzba kot takrat vajina, ni kaj :)

Anonymous said...

Se bolj prijazno prosila zamoj ruzak all the best.