On landing in Iguazu, the plane load of passengers applauded! We were not sure if we had missed something during the flight or it was an omen of things to come, of course, it was neither. Our last three days have been spent viewing the spectacular Iguazu Fallls from both the Brazilian and Argentinian sides, as the border between these two countries lies somewhere in the middle of the falls. A helicopter ride, Sue's first, gave us a sense of the immensity of the falls. The Igauzu River, 1000km long with 62 tribuataries, flows unusually from high lands the near the sea on the eastern side of Brazil, west, and not from the Andes Mountains. Arriving here at Iguazu, an enormous volume of water casacades (a far too gentle word when you see the volume and
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