Waterfalls

Trip Start Jun 29, 2008
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Trip End May 15, 2009


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Flag of Argentina  , Litoral,
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Another long bus journey up to Iguazu.  18 odd hours but Iīm getting used to these journey now.  I left Buenos Aires at 18.50 and arrived in iguazu at about 1pmish.  Well I thought ba was hot but this plce his hotter and more humid.  I checked into my hostel which was opposite the bus station, good choice not far to walk!!  I was knackered from the bus so had a walk around, itīs not a massive place and treated myself to a nice steak lunch with a beer!!  That really was all I did the first day as I was staying another night.  I book a six bed mixed dorm but fortunately it only had girls in it....no smelly snoring boys...nice!!  Our room consisted of a canadian, an american, a Czech and a turkish girl, quite a good mix.  I spent the evening chatting to Tumay (turk) and Janna (czech).  I had an early night as this type of heat makes me so tired and I had an early start (7.40am) to go and see the falls.

I had booked a transfer fromthe hostel to the the National Park.  Another couple of women from hostel who were travelling together were going too.  The three of us ended up going around the park and the falls together.  I thnk they were both of a similar age to me.  There was Frances (french canadian) and Sabine (Austrian), they had met in Peru.  The falls were magnificant I donīt know how to describe them (pics on facebook).  There was so much energy there from all the water flowing, it is just an amazing place.  The falls are made up from 275 waterfalls.  The largest is the Devils Throat.  As part of the ticket we bought for the park we had a boat )į(raft) ride down the river for 30mins which was really tranquil and we got to see a few birds.  We then had a speedboat ride which tkes you right up close to the Devil Throat and we got absolutely drenched, even with my rain jacket on.  We were wet through to our underwear and stupid me had my money and passport in my pocket....it all got very wet!!

The park apparently contains all sort of wildlife including Tapiers and Jaguars but we only saw a big lizard (part of the comodo family I think) and some raccoon like animals which steal food from the picnic areas.

It was a long day as we didnīt get picked up to go back to the hostel til 4pm. I was knackered from being in the heat.  The three of us met up later for dinner which was really nice. 

i spent the next day with Tumay and Janna waiting for our respective buses back to Buenos Aires.

The bus ride was long this time it felt like we stopped in every town we passed to pick people up.  It rained all night and we went through numerous thunder storms and it didnīt feel like the bus slowed at all to take in consideration the weather condition, hence I didnīt sleep too well. 
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