Bourbon Iguassu Golf Club Foz de Iguacu

... a river trip taking you close to jungle ruins that were hidden by the sub-tropical vegitation for many years. Buildings were built of adobe, since little rock/stone is available in the entire area, so long-term survival of structures is unlikely. But the river journey is fascinating. And the Falls are magnificent.

... on my last day in Iguassu. Its a small town and outside of the falls and the dam there aren´t many other tourist attractions. I ended up watching 2 movies that day (it was really, really hot...). Inglorious *******s was one which turned out to be a little tricky for me because a lot of the movie is in German and French. Being in Brazil still the subtitles were all Portuguese. I could kind of follow what was going on and some words in Portuguese are similar to Spanish but ...

... kept knocking back the beers! Then her boyfriend decided we should make homemade Caiprinhas! That is really where the night starts to get fuzzy! So i had one of them, then we all headed on the town! <br><br>I was told the next day that i was dancing in the street, chatting to bouncers trying to get in for free and drinking more Caiparinha´s! Which makes sense cause i had my first chunder of my travels!! Which i think for me is ...

... some coffee, food and head for the bus station at Retiro. This is a big transport area, 3 railways, 2 bus and metro stations.<br>While there are railways, I do not think they are used much for long distance travel.<br>At the bus station (national and international), there are 80 slots for buses and at eight at night they are pretty well full and there is a constant ...

... a couple of trials i want to trek, so will possibly be happy enough on me tod.<br><br>Went off to Parque dos Aves (Bird park with endangered parrots, toucans, hummingbirds etc) earlier today and was very impressed. They have recreated areas of rainforest and panatal, and have a great array of species - pics, as always, included. Up at 7am tomorrow for transfer to Falls - can´t wait.<br>

... glad we did. They got our whole little scream and everything :)<br><br>After we got of the boat we met back up with the rest of the group and headed off to the main event La Garganta de Diablo. (the Devil's Throat) At this point the day had gone back to gray and rainy. The rain didn't bother me as much since I was already completely soaked. As the day went on however I started to get a little uncomfy my fault for getting soaked of course but I'd do it all over ...

... were joined by coatis -racoonlike things- all swarming around trying to poach food from tourists. Some of them were quite cheeky and used bins and walls to try and climb next to people to smell and attempt to steal their lunch. By this point it was 1pm and we had already explored all there was to explore in the Brazilian park as it focuses more on views of the falls. We had heard from people and read in guides that the Argentinian park had a lot more nature ...

Arrived from Flori at about 8 in the morning and got a taxi to Hostel Bambu. After checking in and having some free breakfast we got on the local bus to the falls. Some random brazilian bloke started chatting to me and i thought he was a sound enough bloke wanting to talk about the falls and improve his english etc; it was only when ...

... hiked along the Upper Circuit, for views of the tops of hundreds of falls. We walked along the catwalk over the top of several dried out waterfalls and saw the precipitous rocky drops. I couldn't believe that some of these falls go dry. It was beautiful to see the arch of falls near Isla San Martin and Salto San Martin (the other large waterfall). On our way out of the park, we walked along the Sendero Verde, which is a nice nature trail through the ...

... the very tops of the falls from which we'd got our soaking earlier. <br><br><br><br>It was a really fantastic trail, stopping a few times to allow you to gaze over the waterfalls, seeing them change from peaceful lagoons into huge ...