Iguaçu Falls - from the Brazilian Side

Trip Start Jan 23, 2006
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Trip End Mar 02, 2006


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Friday, February 17, 2006

We left Argentina after a full day's touring in Parque Nacional Iguazú. Driving across a bridge, I entered another new country that I visited for the first time - Brazil.

Because Brazil is a Portugese speaking country, suddenly all the familiar Spanish signs were replaced in Portugese. "de" becomes "do", "le" becomes "O", and "la" becomes "A" etc.

And now the Iguazú Falls become Iguaçu Falls.

Camping again(I could not even "upgrade" to a hostel bed as in Puerto Iguazú because all beds were occupied), our campsite/youth hostel in Foz do Iguaçu (the city next to the Falls with more than 300,000 people) is quite far out of the way from the main road. But since I was usually very good in taking local public transportation, I made it back from Parque Nacional do Iguaçu after a whole day's touring.

Parque Nacional do Iguaçu in Bazilian side is much bigger than Argentine Parque Nacional Iguazú. However, bigger is not necessary better, there is only one trail really gives you a very close-up of the falls in the Brazilian Park. They do have a well-designed exhibition center and beautiful park shuttle buses. The food in Brazilian Park is also better than the ones in Argentine side. I especially like their cafeteria, which lies just behind Devil's Throat...

More pictures of the Falls from the Brazilian side here:

http://travel.saricie.com/SouthAmerica2006/Iguacu_en.htm
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