When Guillermo got back after breakfast, from visiting the Brazilian consulate, we learned that Brazil said yes, we'd have to pay all that money for a few hours, and that our visas wouldn't be ready today anyway, so we aren't going to the Brazil side.
It is still very cold, and we decided to go into town and see if we could do a little shopping and also look for the two stores named Fernando and Eva. We bought a few things, found the two stores and took pictures, and then caught a taxi to Hito, which is a monument on the corner of Argentina along the river that also borders Paraguay and Brazil. Our taxi driver said he would wait there for us and take us to where we wanted to go next. While at Hito, the sun came out and the weather actually started feeling decent, so we decided that maybe it would be a good idea to go back to the falls, on the Argentinian side again.
Isn't that something, these two stores right next to each other??!?
We are standing in Argentina taking this picture, Brazil is across the river on the upper right, and Paraguay is across on the left. The big river is the Parana River.
Once in the taxi, though, the driver convinced us that we may enjoy seeing the rehabilitation center for wild animals called Guira Oga, which was also highly recommended in the Lonely Planet book. So we had him take us there. We were not very impressed with the Guiro Oga place. It is nice that they are taking care of animals the way they are but it was too cold for an enjoyable visit. We also had to ride a train that spewed its black smoke over us as it went along. Then, we had to wait for a very long time to catch the train back. If it hadn't been so cold it wouldn't have been as rough as it was.
This was our hotel in Foz de Iguazu.
Wish I could send you some warmth. I would take some of the cool. Elaine
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