An eighth wonder of the world - Iguazu Falls

Hi family and friends

We certainly have some breathtaking sights as we visited the Iguazu Falls which lies between both borders of Argentina and Brazil.

Our flight from Beunos Aires to Iguazi was delayed by several hours so we more or less had a day sitting chatting at the airport with our new friends who are part of our group (there are 4 of us) Carmen and George from Brisbane. After receiving a food voucher as part of the customer service strategy we settled down watching fellow tourists and sharing funny stories. There was an option of hiring a car and taking a ten hour jaunt like a Thelma and Louise journey with two extra blokes but we decided to sit it out and wait for the plane to overcome its maintenance problems. Better to be safe than sorry don't you think?

We eventually flew out and into the 'jungle' area surrounded by pristine jungle greens, red dirt like the North West Coast of Tasmania and guest what.... a few kombi vans along the way.

We were to visit part of the falls this day but because we landed late, our tour guide , a gorgeous Brazillian aged 25 named Thiago, who was studying his second degree, advised we would start out early the next day and cram 1.5 days into 1.

We were more than happy to have an early night . Funny how sitting in airports makes you a little tired.

Anyway, a 7am start the next morning after breakfast and we were on our way in our Mercedes transit bus - the five of us heading for a 1.5 hour walk to a little cane train then a further walk onto the most spectacular site I have seen in my life.

Iquazu Falls (ill spare the formal details) is huge, larger than Niagra Falls which we all learn about at school. The power of the water was amazing, we became wet with spray which was inviting on the 35 degree day. Just to watch the tremendous volume of water flowing from a lazy slow moving river to a cliff site which then transformed into a tyrant of danger was unbelievable, awesome... all the words you could think of.

We'd really like to share lots of pics on the blog but uploading them seems to take quite a while so watch out for the slide show in the lounge when we get back. Champers supplied.




We began watching at the top of the falls on the Argentinian side, walked down steps to the base of the falls (one section I might add)