Day 31 - Obera to Foz in Brazil.

This day was not a huge distance, being 280 km, but did involve a complicated border crossing from Argentina into Brazil near the falls. 

The early part of the ride was through winding hills in a tropic forest which was unique and quite brilliant. It also had signs to Uruguay which was literally "just over there" to the right.

As we were so close to Iguasu Falls (widest in the world and crossing the borders of three countries), the tourist coaches and tours were obviously increasing, as was the sheer scale of the border crossing infrastructure with individual boothes on the Argentinian side. There, the people were very efficient both for immigration and for customs. The six of us were through in 20 minutes. 

We drove across the bridge to Brazil, and the immigration persons were also prompt. I did not need my new visa, as they had delayed introducing the mandatory one for Australia until April which was a blessing for Rahn who did not have one anyway! However the importation of all our bikes and the truck was a totally different process taking more than four hours and a pile of paperwork for each vehicle, rather than just an inspection of our Registrations! We were fairly tired by the time we made it to the hotel, and had a great "lunch" here with a full-on smorgasbord of everthing. 

The hotel people had our keys ready when we arrived and parked in their secure compound across the street, but my room had a single bed and was so tiny that there was little room to even put my bag down. So I objected and they sent me to another room that had been alread rejected by one of my fellow travellers. It had a double bed, but no light as the window looked onto a wall about 2m away. Anyway I finally accepted room three with a larger space and bed, but it looks directly onto the pool deck at eye level which is not ideal either given that we are here three days! Lets see how it goes. Right now there is loud music coming from the deck!