Hotel Orquideas Palace Puerto Iguazu

... síííííínk ha, ha, ha.<br><br>The time at Yacutinga was just magic. The scenery, the wildlife and the excellent food made for a memory that will last for a very long time. I strongly suggest you should come there and experience what Mother Earth (still have) to offer. Oh and did I mention that I planted an orchid :)<br><br>The trip back to reality was a bit painful as I had two mosquito bites, the size of the bottom of a soda can on each cheek. And I talking about the lower ones mmmmmmmmmk<br>

... to b explored, and we seemed to cross rivers swollen by the recent rainfall at least every half an hour. Then there was the best sunset I've seen for some time and I went to bed ready to wake up in Buenos Aires!<br><br>If all sleeper buses are like this, I will have no problem with the other long journeys coming up. But first I can chillax for a couple of days in BA and hopefully make a day trip to Uruguay...<br>

After a very long and exhausting journey, we got to Iguacu falls.<br>We spent the first day in the Brazilian side, watching the falls from from the other side of the river. This side provides a larger view of the falls. Later on, we went to a bird park where various parrots and toucans ...

... it was a beautiful day, sun was out. We headed off to check out Recoletta, a beautiful suburb with great shops and this awesome cemetery which we wandered around. Managed to find Evita´s grave, and did our first lot of shopping. So cheap over here!<br><br>This morning, we all woke up feeling half alive again, and looking forward to heading up to Iguazu. Unfortunately, we realised the Kaz and my passport have been stolen out of my bag at some ...

... most of it.<br><br> Iguacu Falls, an immense sight of 275 separate falls all in the same place... Here is a snippet from the Lonely Planet wthich describes it very accurately!<br><br>''People who doubt the theory that 'negative ions generated by waterfalls make people happier' mights have to reconsider after visiting the Iguazu falls. Moods just seem to improve the closer you get, until eventually people degenerate into ...

... We got into the park and all our group kind of stuck together. There were 2 Americans, an Israeli and a French guy and they were all sound. The view from the Brazilian side of the falls is further back from the view we got the day before as we were on the other side of the river which forms the natural border. It was great to get both perspectives. We went over to the viewpoint for the Devils Throat and it was really cool. We were still getting ...

... tap!<br><br> <br><br>This main section of the falls is called the 'Devil's Throat' ('Garganta del Diablo') and it's almost impossible to capture the scale of it with one photo, you would need to paste together 2 or 3 photos to fully capture the breadth of this section. <br><br> <br><br>The view to our ...