Just returned from the magnificent Iguazu Falls, the Brazilian side today after the Argentinian side yesterday. I almost never got here after struggling to make myself understood at the bus stop in Corrientes. If you ever come out to Argentina, you have to pronounce Iguazu as IguaZU, not IgUAzu a la Reeves and Mortimer in Shooting Stars.
The Argentinian side puts you right in among the waterfalls. There seem to be hundreds and it is a full day walking around seeing them from different viewpoints. I got a boat which took us right underneath Diable Canyon, getting absolutely soaked. Today, and Brazil, is a little more removed but provides the best pics. I met a Swiss brother and sister, the girl of whom had been before and was disappointed there wasn´t more water (she´d been before), apparently it´s been a bit dry here of late, but as you can see from the pics there was more than a drop or two to go round.
Iguazu is very touristy and more full of families, tour groups and the elderly, than backpackers, which inevitably makes it somewhat duller. There are also mosquitoes here with dengue, which everyone seems very concerned about. Get bit once you suffer a kind of bad flu, which knocks you out for two weeks. Get bit twice you die. I have some mosquito repellent so hopefully will be OK.
The animals in the pictures are corlis. They´re about the size of cats and have faces like the Wombles from Wimbledon. You´re not supposed to feed them but inevitably as they are cute people do. I didn´t, I shooed it away with a chair, hands one paws nil
The Argentinian side puts you right in among the waterfalls. There seem to be hundreds and it is a full day walking around seeing them from different viewpoints. I got a boat which took us right underneath Diable Canyon, getting absolutely soaked. Today, and Brazil, is a little more removed but provides the best pics. I met a Swiss brother and sister, the girl of whom had been before and was disappointed there wasn´t more water (she´d been before), apparently it´s been a bit dry here of late, but as you can see from the pics there was more than a drop or two to go round.
Iguazu is very touristy and more full of families, tour groups and the elderly, than backpackers, which inevitably makes it somewhat duller. There are also mosquitoes here with dengue, which everyone seems very concerned about. Get bit once you suffer a kind of bad flu, which knocks you out for two weeks. Get bit twice you die. I have some mosquito repellent so hopefully will be OK.
The animals in the pictures are corlis. They´re about the size of cats and have faces like the Wombles from Wimbledon. You´re not supposed to feed them but inevitably as they are cute people do. I didn´t, I shooed it away with a chair, hands one paws nil
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