Rumble in the Jungle Part 3 - Feelin hot hot hot!!
Trip Start
Nov 02, 2007
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Trip End
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Puerto Iguazu,
Argentina
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Staying in a cute little place with a 1 eyed chihuahua who was a mighty guard dog (with a T Rex complex) we settled into lounging - (mainly due to the unbea rable humidity and not cos we're a pair of lazy gits). But the main reason for coming was to see the mighty Iguazu Falls and we timed it perfectly for Stan's monumental 30th Birthday
Water, water everywhere...
. We figured it would be a great place to celebrate and blow the budget on a bottle of Sprite and some cucumber and crisp sarnies - and what a view it was - beats munching on your tucker by the floozy in the jacuzi!!For those of you peeps who don't really know anything about the Iguazu Falls they're the 2nd largest waterfalls in the world, and boy do they rock! They are formed over a giant precipice and border Argentina and Brazil - now we tried to get over to Brazil to see them, but our brains were exhausted and couldn't handle another currency change and a border crossing. So we set out on Stanley's birthday to see a whole lot of water...
Foz de Iguazu is made up of about 200 waterfalls spread out across the park, so you end up walking around looking at various 'inferior' and 'superior' falls, which are superb and far from inferior and cos of the mists and sprays of water, you see rainbows forming over them - its proper beautiful! And then just when you think you've seen enough of thousand of gallons of water thundering down, you see the big daddy - the Gargantua del diablo - 'the devils throat'. Holy momma! - shaped like a cove, this is the mother of running water on a humungous scale. Its quite scary really and very very loud!! Anyway I didn't think that turning 30 at the Iguazu falls was quite enough for our Stanley, so I booked a kamikazee speed boat that takes you round the superior falls - tries to drown you and then if your heart isnt already pounding in your chest from the fact that you think you will die, it shoots off around the corner to the devil's throat and gets even more perilously close to the relentless pounding of the water
Woo hoo!!
. Stan loved it hoo yaa-ing all the way. After swallowing a few swimming pools of water, I started to have a panic attack and hyperventilating!! It was over 9 mins later and all of us got off the boat squelching from head to foot along the way...So before the day finished we walked up to the top walkway through forest and over rivers, spotting turtles and aligators for a pie in the sky view of the devils throat. Bloomin heck - it was incredible!
We got drenched for a third time, but as we were a pair of Sweaty Betty's by this point, it was no bad thing.
For anyone who want to get a real idea of what its like, check out the Honda Impossible Dream advert on Youtube. Its a brilliant advert anyway and right at the end of it you will see how impressive Iguazu really is.
Anyhoo Stan was elated. He didn't have the birthday blues and had forgotton all about his youth which had now faded quicker than a fart in the wind. Result!!
We packed our bags, ready for journey east across Argentina and straight to Chile for our flight to Auckland. We were totally knackered, our juice tanks were low and all we really wanted was a nice long holiday...
