Iguazu Falls - Argentinian Side

Alex: It was time to leave Brazil and head to Argentina. We got on the bus to the border, stopped at what looked like a border crossing but as no-one got off the bus we just though it must be crazy toll booths or something, you get these kind of things a fair bit. When crossed the bridge however we realised it was Brazilian immigration so we had to get back on another bus to get back and get our exit stamp - they can get very picky if you forget these kind of things. The whole immigration process took about 20 seconds but we had to wait 15 minutes for the next bus. Argentinian immigration was equally as simple and we were soon checking into a hotel in Puerto Iguazu. After a quick but delicious ice cream stop we were on another bus to the Argentinian side of the falls. It seemed that the weather had paid attention to the weather forecast for once as rain had been forecast for Brazil and we had left it as overcast and grey as it had been for our entire visit but Argentina had been forecast sun and that is what we got as soon as we crossed the border - it was about 40ºC - phew. At the falls other folks look quite prepared and bikini tops abounded but it came as a bit of a shock to us.

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We got on the little train to the main attraction, the walk way above the Devils throat. I can describe the falls in 3 words; wow, wow, wow. To see that much water shooting to the ground below your feet is quite something and the noise is incredible. You can see some of the other falls obscured on the Brazilian side from here too, again in any other situation these falls would be amazing but compared to the Devils Throat they just look pretty insignificant! After standing around in awe for a little while we made our way to some of the other trails. First to the Lower Falls Trail which takes you to the foot of some of the first falls we had seen from the Brazilian side. Again some of the best falls had been obscured from view on the Brazilian side and the views here outstripped them by miles. Every corner we turned we had our breath taken away, took a load of photos only to have the experience repeated 10m later. We had hoped to visit the island jutting out below the falls which is meant to give brilliant views but, with our bus palaver, hadn't left ourselves quite enough time as the last ferry back leaves quite early but still the views were spectacular. The last trail we visited was the Upper Falls Trail, which takes you to the same falls as the lower trail but at the top instead of the bottom. Again it was spectacular. We had heard a lot about the falls from various people and, although the Brazilian side was amazing it hadn't quite lived up to our expectations but the Argentinian side definitely did and then some.

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We got back to the hostel very hot and pretty hungry realising we hadn't eaten anything but ice cream all day it probably wasn't surprising. We had a quick dip in the hostel pool and realising how gross the water was swiftly got out again.Quickly checked our emails and went out for some well needed food, unfortunately we were too very hungry so just stopped at the first restaurant we came too, which was good and really cheap after Brazil but unfortunately didn't serve any of those famous Argentinian steaks which will have to wait for another day, maybe Posadas our next stop.

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