San Juan Eco Foz de Iguacu

... wrong sense. Anyway we went in the heat was already building up and I still wasn´t feeling in tip`top condition. We learnt that the Island at the bottom of teh falls was closed for visit due to high water level. This was unfortunate as normally you could swim around from the island. Anyway we ...

... carbonated water). We like this.<br><br>Our bus was very comfortable. Long distance bus travel is very common<br>here because the airlines only do domestic flights that have BA as the<br>point of departure or the destination. The buses are double decker and<br>the seats are like La-Z Boys - they are padded and recline almost<br>horizontally. Our bus ride was only 2 hours long but it is common for<br>people to take these buses overnight on journeys of ...

... everything looked the same. Ironically though, there is no border control, so Brazilians can just take the bus to Paraguay, do their "groceries", and don&#8217;t even bother to get off the bus when coming back. When crossing to Argentina though, passport control is required, like we found out when visiting the Argentinean side of the falls. The latter only strengthened the impression gained on the Brazilian side and is 100% worth visiting.

... why they would buy the slickers that were available. I enjoyed the freedom of not caring.<br><br>After dinner in the hotel's only restaurant (the downside to staying at the Sheraton) we retired to the room. We were treated to a night of thunderstorms and lightning, some of which I captured on video (as soon as I edit it I'll post it). It was eerie seeing the falls lit intermittently by the lightning, each time looking different because of the shifting mists. It was also during ...

... up for the natural world equivalent of "Pop Idol", with voting now occurring for the current 7 natural wonders of the world (http://www.vote7.com/n7w), a short-list that also includes the Milford Sound in NZ, and Angel falls in Venezuela. After boarding the bus into the Iguacu national park (we`re all about the buses at the moment), we began the scenic walk along the ridge coming across huge waterfall after huge waterfall. Having seen a fair share of waterfalls on the ...

... group picture in panoramic style. Some of them come out amazing - I'll upload once he sends them on.<br><br>We lunch at the falls restaurant trying to fight off the pesky racoons which do all and anything to gnab your grub. Our defence is a serious of stamping and hissing and basically scoffing our grub as quickly as possible.<br><br>Caipirinha Time - AGAIN<br><br>Back at the hotel - it is Caipirinha time - we continue to experiment with ...

... wind shifts the caldera of mist back and forth as I attempt to keep my camera lens clear. When the sun pokes out again we're all rewarded by a perfectly arched rainbow. So formed in fact that it completely dispels the myth of a pot of gold at it's end as it clearly just terminated at the water surface without even a 4-leaf clover! <br><br> Despite the cold weather causing ...

... Diablo, we had lunch, took a hike to the upper part of the falls and then got ready for our boat trip. There were many coati around - little raccoon-like animals - that in this park, had no fear. My friend got a picture of me surrounded. We had seen many coatis in Guatemala, but here they are less intimidated of humans. After being loaded onto a giant truck and given an informative overview of the park, they took us out of the small boats. Here we were dwarfed by the ...

... to reach the argentinian border by bus and this very friendly border office allowed us to skip the very long queue when we told her about our problem. An equallly friendly taxi driver accepted to take us to Puerto ...

... her head off but clearly wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else in the world at that moment... <br><br>It was one of those "stop it, I like it" moments, which you really shouldn't like, but you end up loving!<br><br>Sensibly I'd ...