IGUAZU

Day 1 Iguazu:

Tuesday we got up even earlier and headed to the Jorge Newbury Nacional airport only to find out that our flight to Iguazu was cancelled. Luckily they just put us on the next one leaving a 11 and LAN gave us a voucher for breakfast. So we hung out at the airport for a little bit longer than we wanted but we eventually got off. When we landed it was hot hot hot and humid humid humid! We got to our hostel and were able to put our stuff down and jump right back into the cab to take us the falls. We decided to take a safari and boat tour through the National Park on the Argentina side. The safari ride was a pretty disappointing because most of the animals (400 different species) are nocturnal and are really afraid of people so we didn’t get to see anything. But the boat ride was incredible and absolutely unbelievable. The boat ride was about 30 minutes and of course the boat we went in broke down in the middle of the 6km boat ride to the falls…we didn’t have to wait too long in the boiling sun before they just transferred us over to a new boat which was bigger so there was more room and it was easier to see. I need to mention that these boats were like blow-up rafts for 30 people with a motor…very safe but we were very close to the water. Of course we had to wear super silly life jackets. The boat first brings you close to the falls so you can take pictures and then they tell you too put your cameras away and get ready to get wet. Now my dad and I thought it meant we would get sprayed which wasn’t hard to do because there was so much water coming down and it was coming down so hard that water was spraying everywhere. But we were so mistaken. They literally brought us right under the falls. We were drenched. We couldn’t look up without out having sunglasses on and it hurt a little. But it was the most incredible thing I have ever seen in my life. I am pretty sure my dad would say the same thing too. They then took us to another set of falls and brought us under those too. I can’t even express in words how wonderful it was. The water was amazingly refreshing as well. After the boat ride we walked for about two hours to see the falls from above instead of below and underneath. It was breathtaking. Obviously I have tons of pictures that I am going to put up as soon as we get back to Buenos Aires. At about 6 we headed back to the hotel swam and showered and had an early dinner at 8 across the street from our hostel. We were sleeping y 11.

Day 2 Iguazu:

Our plan was originally to make a trip to the Brazilian side of the falls because my dad and I had both heard that although North Americans technically need a visa to enter Brazil the border by Iguazu was easy and they normally let people from the states through without a visa. We were going to try this but then last minute at about 9 this morning decided that it wasn’t worth the hour and a half bus ride if we had a high chance of just having to turn around. We still had lots to see on the Argentina side and thought it was a better way to spend our last day. So we headed back to the Falls but this time went to see the upper part of Garganta del Diablo (Devil’s Throat…sounds scary right?). It was even more incredible than anything we had seen the day before…which I wouldn’t have believed possible. We stayed there for at least a half an hour looking at the endless amounts of water flowing down into what appeared as a bottomless pit. No other word but extraordinary. We then walked around a bit more and tried to stay cool. It was about 100 degrees here today and needless to say we were dying of heat…the humidity is awful. After a little shopping we got in a bus and headed to the center of Puerto Iguazu, we were really excited to explore but unfortunately there was nothing special there and with the extreme heat we both lost our patience of walking around pretty quickly. Once we got back to the hostel we practically jumped in the pool and cooled down for a while. We are going to take a little rest before we have a bbq in our hostel and then probably get to bed pretty early. The sun and heat have been so draining. We head back to Buenos Aires tomorrow at noon.

I will post pictures soon!