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Published: August 11th 2013
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Our flight from Brazil arrived around 7pm and after a short taxi ride we arrived at our hostel, Iguassu Hostel. Original name I know, but that was the theme when naming hostels and hotels in the area.......... Hotel Iguassu Royal , Costa Del Sol Iguassu, Iguassu Grand Resort to name a few we passed. The hostel was good, it had a nice little bar and pool area. Not that we got much chance to use them.
We decided to visit the Brazilian side of the falls first, this involved catching a bus from the station which was a short walk from the hostel. 30 minutes later we arrived, paid and got another short bus ride to the falls. It´s all very organised. After a short walk down the path we reached the falls. Our first thoughts on seeing the first part were "impressive but not as big as we thought", but as we got further down the path, the scale became apparent... these falls are immense!! They seemed to go on forever, apparently there are 275 seperate falls spannng 3km! We were to quick to judge these falls but ended up blown away ....... The route ended with the mouth
of the falls, which had a walk way that took you very close to the rushing water. It was windy, it was loud and it was wet but it was worth it as you got a sense of the power of these falls.
Along the path we got to see some wildlife, there were badger-like animals called Coatamundi which we basically after food from all the tourists (we had strict intructions not to feed them). Wardens were constantly shooing them away. We were lucky to see a Monkey too, no idea what type it was though! There was plenty of colourful Butterflies too.
That night we enjoyed a Churrascaria. I do love meat (cue the jokes), but after a while it gets a bit boring. Sometimes you just need some sauce with it!
On day 3 in Iguassu we decided to visit the Argentian side, apparently 80% of the falls lie within Argentia and it´s said to be a better experience (probably got told about the experience by an Argentian). We couldn´t understand this as you wouldn´t beable to see most of the falls. We were picked up at our hostel, taken through the border and arrived
at the falls about 2 hours later. It was an organised tour so got to make ´traveling friends´. One of our ´friends´ introduced us to Egg & Wine flavoured ice-cream- not for the faint-hearted.
Although you couldn´t see as much of the falls from this side, you felt more ´amongst it´ which was cool (yes I just used the word cool). Going over walkways which were situated just above the lip of the falls was really impressive. But the highlight of this side was the boat ride we took. The boat took us up close the the falls, which was when you experienced their true power, such as the noise, it was amazing. The best bit was how close we got, close enough to get Jen´s socks wet through her ´water-proof´ walking shoes! Think about the wettest you´ve got on a log flume and times it by 10, that was it. Fortunately we´d bought a waterproof poncho the previous day, so we didn´t end up too wet. One of our ´friends´ didn´t bring any protection so ended up like a drowned rat.
We throroughly enjoyed our experience in Iguassu but our trip was soon to take a different
turn.............. a 19 hour bus ride to Buenos Ares. We were slightly apprehensive until we got on the coach........ we knew we were going to enjoy this bit of downtime. The bus was super comfortable and we were fed and watered (even got a whisky just before bedtime). We got to see some of the countryside in Northern Argentina, lots of farmers living in wooden huts, lots of forrests but too many logging companies.
Things we learnt in Iguassu Falls:
1) Jen´s shoes are defintely not water-proof!
2) Don´t be quick to judge.
3) Egg is a wierd flavour in ice-cream.
Next stop Buenos Aires!
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