Impressive Iguazu Falls

11.02.2012 - 15.02.2012

After another long rather boring bus ride we arrived in Puerto Iguazu, a small town close to the falls. It was hot! Our bus dropped us off on the Brazilian side so we had to get a few local busses back to the Argentinian side, not great after a 22 hour bus journey.

After settling into our hostel, the first one where we have had to share a dorm room ☹ we got some food and just chilled out by the pool.

We had 3 days in Iguazu so decided to just relax by the pool the next day, and save the falls the day after. The temperature must have been in the high 30’s, a little too hot for me but it was nice to have a pool to dip into.

Jaguars??

The next day we got up nice and early to get the bus to the falls, even in the morning it was baking. Once we arrived at the entrance we walked around the national park taking in the different wildlife and plants taking an extra hard look for the jaguars, unsuccessfully. When we got closer to the falls we could hear the rumble of crashing water, it was amazing. Then when we first saw the falls it was just breath-taking, unbelievable. Its quite hard to describe so make sure you check out the photos. The park is set out with walkways so you can wonder around and see the falls at different angles and heights. We had also booked to do a boat tour which takes you up to the falls and even underneath getting soaking wet.

Around midday I unfortunately started to over heat and we had to go back for fear of me getting heatstroke, but we were kind of ready to go anyway, the only disappointment was not seeing a jaguar.

After leaving Puerto Iguazu we headed over to the Brazilian side, Foz do Iguacu , we had planned on going to see the falls from this side but a few people said it wasn’t really worth it as the Argentinian side was much better. So we decided to just walk around Foz and prepare ourselves for another long bus journey to Rio de Janeiro.