Iguazú Falls

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From Buenos Aires I went to Iguazú near the border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. I visited the Iguazú Falls, a huge series of waterfalls with heights up to 82 metres. It's one of the widest series of waterfalls in the world and stretches over a length of 2.7 kilometres across from Argentina to Brazil, much larger than Niagara Falls. I went to see both sides on two different days.

The water levels were quite low due to lack of recent rainfall, and some of the falls had almost dried up. But the ones that were still flowing were spectacular, particularly the biggest of them all, the Garganta del Diablo (Devil's Throat) which you can get quite close to on the Argentinian side of the falls. Most of the falls are within Argentinian territory, but the Brazilian side gives a more panoramic view of the Garganta and provides a lift so that you can see the falls from above.

It's a very humid place and the whole area around the waterfalls is rainforest with plenty of colourful birds including toucans (although I didn't spot any of these) as well as butterflies and lots of very tame coatis (a bit like raccoons).

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Comments

[Rach]

Paul - this looks totally amazing!