Puerto Iguazu Argentina

Argentina Town Near Iguazu Falls

Puerto Iguazu Argentina is about 18 kilometres (11 miles) from the Iguazu airport (airport code IGR) on RN 12 highway.

The route takes you through the Iguazu national park, site of the famous Iguazu falls. Depending on the number, if any, of hotel stops on the way, allow about 30 to 45 minutes.

Tour buses stop at the Iguazu Falls national park entrance, and any guests who are staying at the Sheraton Hotel are asked to pay the fee.

Other travelers who are in transit to hotels outside the park, either on the highway or in Puerto Iguazu, don't pay. See Iguazu Falls maps for orientation of Iguazu park and googlemaps links for the town of Puerto Iguazu Argentina. Puerto means Port in Spanish, and Puerto Iguazu is a port on the Iguazu River. Puerto IGR is not a typical resort town, just a normal small town where real people live, and a stopping off point for back packers.

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Puerto Iguazu Bus Terminal

This is the Puerto Iguazu bus terminal, across the street from La Esquina restaurant and the Hotel St. George.

There are several Pueto hotels and hostels within a few blocks of here, as well as several hotels on the highway to the park. The highway hotels are nice enough, but you would have to take a cab to go into Puerto Iguazu to shop or find other restaurants.

Go two blocks west from here, cross at the traffic lights, turn right -- there's a good and cheap internet cafe, then a bank about 3 blocks down the hill on Av Victoria Aguirre.

 

Avenue Cordoba in Puerto Iguazu Argentina

Traffic in front of the bus station was light all day -- mostly delivery vans, tour buses and a few cabs. But on the larger Av Victoria Aguirre, two blocks west, a steady stream of battered cars, trucks -- you name it -- demonstrated exhaust systems in need of immediate mechanical attention.

In late afternoon and into the evening, the humid air was so thick with the smell of fumes and wood smoke that I stayed indoors. Mosquitoes are bad only from 5 p.m.- 7 p.m., I was told, and there were no recent reports of any disease-bearing ones.

 

La Esquina Restaurant in Puerto at the Hotel St. George

La Esquina restaurant offered really good buffet meals. As breakfast was included with my hotel package, this is where Hotel St George guests came for breakfast. Lunches and dinners were either paid buffet or ordered and paid from the full menu; a good choice. I enjoyed my meals here. As you can see, there were ongoing renovations.

The same rains that had washed out the park trails had overwhelmed and rendered unpotable (not safe to drink) the area water supply.

Though the hotel staff assured me tap water was most likely safe, it was cloudy with sediment. Better to err on the side of caution, they said.

And so, Puerto Iguazu Argentina, and the Iguazu Falls area was the only place in my travels through Chile, Uruguay and Argentina where I HAD to buy bottled water, and this was a rare occurence.

Argentina Iguazu Falls ~ Click on a Picture and Go!

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