Thursday 27th February 2025 Matelândia to Foz do Iguaçu
Just a little 50 mile ride to The Iguazu Falls district today, planning on visiting the falls on Friday.

Breakfast in the hotel, already very hot and humid, as we leave the cobbled streets just out side the hotel, straight on to the main highway 277 to Foz do Iguaçu, pretty boring road, lot of traffic, but a good hard shoulder, most of the time.

Bingo’s bird spotting has taken a bit of a dive lately, but back into the swing of things today with three new sightings today, Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), Yellow-winged Blackbird (Agelasticus thilius) and Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri), he was quite pleased with himself. Other than that few punctures on the road, all due to the debris on the side of the road, all sorted no dramas and loads of soft drinks and ice-cream, just to keep the morale up.

Stopped in a park, well bus stop, in the centre of Foz do Iguaçu, very close to the Argentine border, did not want to go back into Argentina if possible, as its quite a bit of hassle with the border crossing etc.

Bingo booked a hotel just down the road, on his phone, perfect as we will be staying here for two nights, going to be proper little tourist for the next couple of days. All booked, Bingo sorting out tomorrow’s visit to the falls me checking out the hotels facilities, spent the extra £ today, nice swimming pool with an outside bar, top notch.

So we have got a guy picking us up at 8 tomorrow morning, having boat ride right into the rapids and waterfalls, going to see both the Argentinian & Brazilian views, then a trip into the rainforest for the afternoon, should be good. We also tried to book a visit to Itaipu Dam and hydroelectric powerplant, but the visiting times did not allow us to do both.

Spent the afternoon by the pool and sorted out the first weeks riding into Paraguay, nice lazy day, resting these aching muscles.