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Nicky
I think after four months away we are starting to get used to long journeys on public transport. Our 20 hour bus ride from Cordoba to Puerto Iguazu was relatively painless and was a great way to see the countryside changing. When we left Cordoba it was lots of cities and towns, by the time we woke in the morning it was rolling farmland full of cows and cowboys on horseback and by the time we arrived in P I the scenery was thick rainforests.
I hope what I am about to say does not sound like we are getting blaise about the amazing things that we are seeing while we are away but we saw a lot of waterfalls in Australia and New Zealand, all of them were beautiful, and I was expecting the Iguazu Falls to be equally so. But they were beyond anything I have ever seen before. The noise was so thunderously loud we could hear it 600 metres away as we got off the train. The force of the water as it fell was so enormous it send spray into the air that made it look like something was on fire, and again we
could see this as we got off the train. This spray was so thick as we got to the Galante Diablo, or Devil´s Throat, that we couldn't make out the bottom of the ravine.
The pictures of the falls are usually not of the largest falls, the devil's throat, but of the San Martin falls. A series of still large falls in a curve in the earth. As we arrived at this part of the falls the sun started to peek through the cloud that had formed and stunning rainbows appeared across the face of the water. There are a number of walks that you can do so you can see this part of the falls from various points in the national park and each one is as stunning as the last. At one point you can see Devil's Throat, San Martin Falls and a tiny but beautiful tropical island in the middle and what feels like miles of the river running away behind you. The area around the falls is equally as beautiful, lush forest teeming with the sound of birds and coatis, like S American possums.
I hope that I have done the falls justice with my description
and with our pictures. It is one of the hardest things to describe and I honestly believe that everyone has to see them to fully appreciate their power and beauty.
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Barie and Diane Stone
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Iguazu
Of all the places we have visited in the world ,nothing but nothing has moved us lilke Iguazu. It is by far our number one. we thought that you made a good stab at trying to discripe it but it`s so fanstatic in size power and noise plus the accessabitity to the viewing areas that any other natural water phenomenon is not in the same league. Get on trucking... Love Barrie and Diane PS Had a good night with mum and dad celebrating the old mans birthday.