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Published: September 20th 2010
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Day 13-18th September-Part 2
Yes we did so much on day 13 it requires two blogs! It’s actually more to do with the amount of photos we took. You’re only allowed 100 per blog and we took a whopping 900, so we decided to split the day out as there are lots of good ones!
We left the bird park and wandered over to the Parque Nacional, not for the first time, I had a good giggle to myself at how inaccurate our guidebook is. It reassured us that the entrance fee to the National Park for Iguacu Falls was $2.50 US. Lies! It is in fact R$37 which is about $18. Not that it bothered us, but it was good for a laugh! We bought our tickets and joined the queue for the bus to take us to the falls. One short bus ride later we were dropped off at the start of the 1.5km trail that takes you down to the falls.
I was getting more and more excited as we walked along the trail, you could hear the thunder of the falls in the distance and I was really looking forward to finally seeing them!
Iguacu Falls straddles the Brazil and Argentina border and therefore both countries have national parks that you can go to, to see the falls. We’d been told that there’s not an awful lot to do on the Brazil side, but it is good as you can get the best overall view of the mighty Iguaçu Falls. To be honest, we’re not sure what people were going on about, we found lots to do there and we could have easily spent longer! However, I’m rambling so I will return to the tale.
There are several vantage points along the trail where you can take photos of the falls as you get closer, there was a big group of school kids walking near us and we were disgusted by their stupidity. They were climbing up onto the rails at these vantage points and standing on them. If they fell, there was nowhere to go but a long way down and a soggy end in the waterfalls, they were also teasing these animals (they looked a bit like beavers), who we’d all been told in 4 different languages not to touch them as some of them carry rabies. Does it make us
bad people that we wanted them to get bitten to teach them a lesson?! However we did see one of these animals run up and jump on to this woman’s bag, she freaked out! To be honest I would have been scared too, but it was quite funny to watch!
We were amazed at how big the falls actually were. I knew that they were approx 3km across but nothing can prepare you for what that looks like! When you finally reach the falls, the noise is deafening, that’s a whole lot of water! Through the spray, I spotted a catwalk thing that takes you out right over the falls themselves and promptly dragged Ellory over to it.
We got soaked! The spray was unbelievable, but the views were better. We took some very quick photos, mindful of how water and cameras tend not to mix and just stood there for a while marvelling at how amazing these famous waterfalls are up close. We then came off the catwalks and stood for ages at a viewing point that was right up close to the edge of the falls. Just amazing.
After spending several hours at the falls
we decided to return home, we’ve already decided that instead of the 2 nights we’d originally planned to stay at Foz, we were going to extend for a few more days before heading over to Argentina. I forgot that the Itaipu Dam is very close and would quite like to see it, we’d also been told about a trip into Paraguay, which although wasn’t a country on our original list, sounded like a good one! So for the time being, we’re staying in Brazil just that little bit longer! (the cocktails and all you can eat restaurants are hard to leave too...)
Love from
Liz xxx
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