After another 17 hours in yet another bus, we arrived in the tropical north, at the Three Fronteras of Argentina, Paraguay y Brasil. Twelve miles upstream from this border of 3 countries, divided by the convergence of 2 rivers, is the Cataratas of Iguazu, the second largest waterfalls in the world, with sometimes as many as 200 individual falls. On the Argentinean side, open air trains took us through the jungle to an elaborate series of catwalks and footbridges, crossing above different forks of the river, and to the drop off of several of the falls. Garganta del Diablo (The Devil´s Throat) was the first and largest drop we visited in the national park. The sheer force and beauty is indescribable. The misty spray of the falls and the defeaning roar can´t be captured in photos
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