Paul's Guide to Puerto Iguazu Life and Love

I am a writer/philosopher, viajero and alternative psychologist who has traveled to 61 countries over 25 years. I came to Puerto Iguazu in November of 2015 with my girlfriend from Brazil. We fell in love with the city and decided to try to make our home here.

I will be exploring the city, meeting people, finding interesting things to see and do, and also writing about life and love. I have developed my own philosophy of life which you can start to read about here

I have worked for about 15 years as a volunteer in youth suicide prevention. If you are interested in this, please ask me about it. I want to share what I have learned with as many people as I can.

This page is constantly under construction!

Hostels - see below

My daily journal- for example Dec 18, Dec 20, Dec 22, Dec 23, Dec 26 .. Jan 7, Jan 12

One of the most interesting things I have found so far is the Casa de Botellas - House of Bottles

Something else I like is the hummingbird house.

Paul's Guide to Puerto Iguazu Life and Love

According to Hostelz.com there are 27 hostels in the Puerto Iguazu area.

Here are the hostels I have visited so far

Here is the helpful Hostelz.com page

Here is the Hostelworld page

Paul's Guide to Puerto Iguazu and Life

- On my first trip to Puerto Iguazu my girlfriend and I stayed 3 nights in the private rooms. The first night we were in room 1 with a private bath for 300 pesos. To save money we moved to room 3 with a shared bath for 250. Both rooms were ok. Room 1 has air conditioning, but 3 does not.

Room 3 - It was ok but there were some mosquitoes and it was a long way to get to the showers. You have to go downstairs and through the big dorm room to get to them and there were just 4 todal showers, 2 for men and 2 for woken. When I was there one of the men's showers did not work and one was busy so I used the women's shower.

Once we ran out of water and at least once the WIFI was not working. I was told it was a problem in the city but I checked some other places and it was working there so it seemed more of a local problem.

There is a sign saying the hostel is closed at night and in the morning so I was afraid to use the kitchen to make breakfast until I asked Vanessa if it was ok and she said yes.

Both times when we were there the pool looked very dirty but I jumped in a couple times anyhow and surived.

On our second visit we stayed in room 1 again. This time Bea was very unhappy with the towels as one looked dirty and one looked really old and tattered. She was so unhappy with the towels in fact she didn't want to take a shower. I think if we would have asked for cleaner, newer ones Vanessa would have found some for us but I was also a bit shocked they would give guests towels like that so I recommend they check before they hand them out.

I'd say the best things about Natura are Vanessa and Roberto. They were both so nice to us that I took a picture of them the first time we visited. Vanessa let us stay about 2 hours past check out time before she started getting impatient with us. The second best thing is the location since it is the closest hostel to the bus station, being literally right across the street from the where the busses leave the station.

Had a really nice talk with Sebastian from Columbia. He is studying architecture. He told me about ___ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corfbusier

Went to Garden Stone. Met Alejandro who told me a lot about the hostels here. Met Martin, friendly young guy coming to work.

Bea sent message saying she was leaving at 3.

Later I will start taking pictures of some of the signs in hostels in PI.