Back into Argentina… Last Time… Promise.
We crossed the Rio Uruguay and the border into Argentina near Concordia. Again, border formalities were simple. The Uruguay and Argentina aduanas share a desk and we were stamped out and in in 5 minutes. The problem was across the street where we got our vehicle papers. Even though i handed over my papers when leaving Argentina on the boat from Buenos Aires, it didn’t seem that anyone ever entered the info into the computer. So, the guys in the office were perplexed that our vehicle had never left their country, but here we were driving in from Uruguay. Like some of of our other hold ups with the Argentina aduana, after lots of head scratching, they ultimately just clicked the print button and gave us new papers. Problem solved.
We decided that Concordia wasn’t worth much time, so we loaded up on gas and food and headed north. The first stop was in Chajari – another nice camp site and hot springs. This one was basically a resort complex with fancy concrete pools and elaborate grounds. We took a dip and popped the top. Oddly, the place didn’t have hot showers, and we’re starting to realize that just soaking in hot springs isn’t going to cut it much longer.
The next day we made it farther north to the mission town of Yapeyu. It’s getting more and more rural and feeling a bit tropical too. This was a really quiet and relaxed place, where everyone waves when you drive by. It doesn’t matter if they are on a horse, on a tractor, sitting on their porch… they all wave. We like it.
We parked down by the river and popped the top under a big tree. Just in time to see the bats come out as we watched darkness fall on Brazil.
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only have to visit paraguay and say that you have been in all the south american countries
“only have to visit paraguay and say that you have been in all the south american countries” There are still a few more on their list: the 3 Guyanas and Venezuela. Paraguay requires a visa, not sure if it’s worth the expense unless you are after some technical equipment (computer, camera, etc.) which is cheap in Ciudad Del Este.
For the hard question: Iguazu is nice on the Brazilian side, but really impressive and close-up in Argentina! I’m glad we did both (in above order).
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