{"id":2706,"date":"2017-08-18T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2017-08-25T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:54:42","slug":"trip-through-northern-argentina-and-paraguay-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2706","title":{"rendered":"Trip through Northern Argentina and Paraguay – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

18 August 2017 – Manchester, UK – Setting off<\/em><\/p>\n

Up at 06.30 to say goodbye to F. Finished packing, checked lists and spent some quality time with Maga and Mati (and a quick hello to visiting Blackie) before taking a pre-booked taxi to Manchester airport, whence next stop, Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

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Bags packed and ready to go<\/p><\/div>\n

As I have time to kill at the airport, a few words about the planned trip. I\u2019ll spend one night in Buenos Aires, and the following day take an overnight bus to Posadas, Province of Misiones. I pick up a rental car in Posadas and drive straight down to Mercedes, Province of Corrientes, where I spend the night.<\/p>\n

Up very early the following morning and drive to Colonia Carlos Pelligrini, on the East  side of the Esteros de iber\u00e1<\/em>, the second largest wetlands (after Brazil\u2019s Pantanal<\/em>) in South America. I spend a few nights here, and move on to the Mburucuy\u00e1  National Park for a couple of nights before returning to the Esteros de Iber\u00e1, this time at Cambyret\u00e1, close to Ituzaing\u00f3 on the northern border of the wetlands.<\/p>\n

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Photo from http:\/\/www.tripin.travel\/_blog\/webfiles\/imagenes\/proyecto-ibera-2014-proteccion-ecologia-blog3.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n

A few nights there, and back to Posadas for the Argentine Annual National English Teachers\u2019 Conference (FAAPI), where I\u2019ll be meeting old friends from the many years I lived and worked in Argentina.<\/p>\n

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Conference over, I rent a car and north-east to San Pedro where I pick up Guy Cox and we spend a week together birding the reserves (Karadya, San Sebastian de la Selva, Urugua-\u00ed) between San Pedro and Iguaz\u00fa, and then and all around the Iguaz\u00fa area.<\/p>\n

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Guy Cox, Misiones Bird Guide<\/p><\/div>\n

My sister Caroline then arrives at Foz do Igua\u00e7u (the Brazilian side of the Iguazu Falls) and we take an overnight bus to Asunci\u00f3n (Paraguay) where we meet our guide Oscar Rodriguez, who will take us north-west, up along the Route 9, to explore the wild life and learn something about the Mennonites who have settled there and the indigenous people who have always (relatively speaking) been there.<\/p>\n

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Giant Armadillo, endangered species – one of the species we hope to see in Paraguay<\/p><\/div>\n

After a week of this we come back to Asunci\u00f3n and Caroline and I will spend another few days in a rented car exploring the area south-east of Asunci\u00f3n. Not quite sure what we will find there, but certainly some of the Jesuit Missions set up many years ago.<\/p>\n

And then Caroline goes back up to Iguaz\u00fa for some more conventional tourism while I fly back to Buenos Aires, and thence to San Mart\u00edn de los Andes to take up residence until January.<\/p>\n

So, tomorrow Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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