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  Iguazu National Park, Litoral, Argentina
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

4th - 7th June 2008

B- Firstly Happy Birthday to Mum!! and Sarah from the both of us.

Left Rio early in the morning with a massive hangover, both suffering badly and generally hating the world. By the time we got to Foz do Iguacu (Brazil) head was back together and managed to get a cab across the border to Puerto Iguazu, Argentina. Hostel was good for the price £4 per night. Had own kitchen, en-suite and 3 beds. As we had the chance we thought some home cooking was in order, so bought a packet of dried ravioli and a packet of sauce, (Gordon Ramsey eat your heart out!!)

Got up early 7.30 and walked to bus stop to in the town regular bus service every 20 minutes, an hour and a half later it turned up. Had booked tour of the National Park including jeep safari, boat ride into the falls, and an inflatable dingy back down the river. Made the tour with a couple of minutes to spare and boarded the jeep, short journey through the jungle / forest and saw a few animals and tree's, this consisted of a palm tree and a big indigenous rat (amazing!!) then the real fun started we boarded a 25ft rib (Speed boat) which took us up the river, it was quick and got us to the first part of the falls in about 3 minutes. As most know i don't get overly excited about to much but seeing the falls for the first time, i was gobsmacked. They are huge, i'll let Rae tell you about the rest of the trip but lets just say i have never seen anything as impressive ever, apart from Trev's goal in 1980 of course!!

R-The falls were wicked! I've never seen anything like it it left me speechless, which as many of you know is quite a feat! when your speeding down the river on the boat and you first set eyes on them its definitely something, I'm afraid our pictures don't do it justice but you'll get the idea. The Iguazu falls or Cataratas del Iguazu to the locals are made up of 275 separate waterfalls falling from the Rio Superior at the top to the Rio inferior down below. Part of the boat trip was to get us as wet as possible so they took us under a couple of the smaller falls and soaked us completely! was real good fun :-) Once the boat trip was over we took the train to the other end of the falls where you could walk right out over the RIo Superior on a metal gangway which was about 1200m long to a viewing point at the end which looks down onto The devils throat, man that was madness! you couldn't even see down to the river below as the crazy amount of water made so much spray. Afterwards we took the ecological tour (inflatable dingy) down the Rio Superior. The guy rowing us got us within about 2ft of a sleeping alligator or maybe a cayman we're not sure which :-) but it was big and had lots of teeth and a butterfly on its head lol. That night once we got back to Puerto Iguazu we went for a meal where bushy had his first Argentinean steak which cost the equivalent of about 4 quid!

The following day we got a cab from the hostel over the border to the Brazilian side of the falls which gives you a more panoramic view and a better sense of the size of it all as a whole. We paid the taxi driver, Julio, 200 pesos (about £30) to stay with us for the day, he took us first to the falls then to the Parque des Aves which was basically a bird and butterfly place with a few reptiles thrown in for good measure. He then took us to the Itaipu Dam which powers 90% of paraguay and 20% of Brazil, its a very impressive thing but we were all toured out by then and kept falling asleep on the coach tour lol! That was our last full day in Iguazu. On our last day, today, we took a cab to the airport via the Tres Fronteras this is where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet on the cross roads of a river. We are now safely in our hostel in Buenos Aires where we're sitting and having a beer whilst writing this. Bushy reckons I write too much but never-mind aye!

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Alligator or Cayman ??	Paraguay	Brazil	Iguasu 4
Long Legged bird (for Ham)	Mr Tucan	first view	getting wet
at the Devils throat	Devils throat close up	Iguasu 1	Iguasu 2
Iguasu 3

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