6 March 2010
The bridge over the river Parana leads us out of Argentina and into Brazil. And even though this is just a 15 minute bus ride across a bridge, it is like entering a different world. Take breakfast, for example: while we had minimalist breakfast in Argentina (coffee and hard bread), across the border awaits us a sumptuous buffet of fruit, cake, savoury and sweet pastry, eggs, everything we could wish for - oh, and great coffee. The food in general in Brazil is the best we have had in Latin America, much more flavour, much more variety.
Also the diversity in Brazil is striking compared to the rest of Latin America. In Foz do Iguaçu, there are large Chinese and Arabic communities, and many black people. The small city even has a Buddhist temple and a mosque (marked on the city map). Nowhere else in Latin America did we see such ethnic and religious diversity.
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