We took the bus up from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu, the city near the famous Iguazu falls. These falls border Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil and are where the Iguazu river turns into 275 different waterfalls spanning over 1.5 miles.
The Argentinan side of the falls lets you stand over the top of these incredibly powerful waterfalls on metal walkways and observation points. They are SPECTACULAR. There must be 20 massive waterfalls all in a row, with incredible views and amazing sounds to baffle you. We also took a boat trip which beats any Alton Towers Water flume by a million miles. The boat literally drives under one of the biggest falls so that you are drenched in water both by the waves and the spray from the falls. Our friend Keith didn´t believe what the boat captain told him so now has a waterlogged Iphone and a digital camera for sale!
We got back from the falls and took the local bus over the border to Brazil. This should have taken 30 minutes, unfortunately Brazil buses aren´t known for there reliability and true to form the bus ran out of petrol 10 minutes outside our destination of Foz de Iguazu. An hour and a half later we finally arrived at our hostel where once again we had money difficulties with every atm closing at 10pm. A delicious dinner (thanks to a credit card) solved all our problems - well it was probably the beer tower that helped the most.
The Brazil side of the falls is much less of an event, more designed to give you a panoramic look at the falls. It was still a great day with the waterfalls looking even more impressive when we had the full perspective of their size. I´m sure you can see from the plethora of photos how amazing the falls were. The wildlife is also more accessable on the Brazil side with our lunch getting regularly disturbed by very friendly racoons.
We then spent the evening planning our next few days, finally deciding on a trip to the Pantanal in Western Brazil.
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