Puerto Iguazu,
Argentina
Saturday, February 9, 2008
So after leaving Rio exhausted (but stoked!!), we set ourselves up for even more travel punishment by jumping on a bus for 25 hours in order to view the famous Iguazu Falls!! 25 hours later of semi sleep we stepped off the bus, feeling even more exhausted than before, and then proceeding to sleep for another 14 hours!! Very strange, but was great to wake up completely refreshed and ready for a big day of ewwwwing and ahhhhing at the famous Iguacu Falls. IŽll let the photos do the talking, but basically Iguazu Falls are just massive, and very awe inspiring.(The story goes that many years ago a young Guaraniran away with a beautiful maiden who was about to be sacrificed in honor of a serpent who lived in the depths of the River
Iguazu. When she discovered this insult, the serpent let her rage flow over her back, and, twisting it, split the course of the river, trapping the young lovers and thus creating the waterfalls of
Iguazu.Supposedly the Guaraniran warrior was turned into a tree which now overlooks the maiden who is now a rock!We reckon its more geological than that but its a great story!)
They are shared by Argentina, Brazil and Uruaguay. We stayed over two nights on the Argentinian side (Puerte Iguacu), which is definitely the best place to stay, and also to view the falls (including a speed boat ride through the rapids and under the falls - getting very very wet in the process). We then spent our last day racing around to the Brazilian side, and doing the tour from there, before then jumping on another 15hour bus down to the beautiful area of Florianpolis for some final days of sun and surf - see next blog!!!
