Tuesday 9th November 2010
We went for steak, it was amazing. A huge chunk of the finest Argentinean beef and a bottle of red wine, yum yum yum yum yum yummy……. Hic.
Today we visited the Argentinean side of 
and it rained. It rained a lot. In fact the rain came down in such biblical proportions for at least a minute or so I was consider rounding people up and building an ark!!
“the animals went in two by two harrah harrah”!
The Argentinean side of the falls is the side where you get really close up. You start the day with a train ride up to the highest point of the falls and then there are bridges across the river to the falls which were built in 2001 (along with the railway).
The first bit of the falls was “Garganta del Diablo” (the devil’s throat) and you literally stand above the most powerful part of the falls as 18000 litres per second gargle and flow beneath you. It’s indescribably beautiful, an impressive mixture of noise and energy.
The rain had really started to come down by now and we were sodden. This made viewing “del Diablo” nigh on impossible, we took a few shots but the mist and spray that you normally get was multiplied with the rain, but the awesome power of the falls was still there and not something you could capture on film anyway.
We then took the train back down one stop and this is where you can walk along the next set of falls (or “saltos” as they say) the rain had eased of a little by now and we managed to get some pretty cool shots. Even standing above the smaller falls the amount of water gushing past was unbelievable.
We stopped for lunch and things started to brighten up, my socks were drying on the chair quite nicely when a cheeky Raccoon popped out for a spot of grub.
Then it got darker and darker and darker and the heavens opened with a vengeance!! After lunch we had pre booked to go on a tour of the jungle on something that resembled an army truck.
So we climbed aboard but the rain was so heavy we basically watched our knees travel through the Iguazu jungle for half an hour.
It was ridiculous and so to recognise this Suz had a laughing fit all the way round. This was part due to the pointlessness of driving through a jungle not being able to see a thing and part due to an Aussie lad who was taking cover underneath a chip tray.
We did stop briefly to be told that the rain was very, very important to the local eco-system and that all the trees and wildlife that we couldn’t see on account of the torrential rain were dependant on the rain – ironic eh?!
After this was the boat trip, this was supposed to be the highlight of the day, where the boat takes you into the heart of one of the falls and everyone gets wet, the joy. We’d been saturated for 5 hours by this point, my fingers had done that wrinkly thing when you’ve been in the bath too long.
We boarded the boat and we set off, the rain smashing us in the face like tiny needles. But amazingly the rain gave us a break and we started enjoying the adventure. We did a slow tour around the base of the falls for some photo’s
and then they take the cameras off you and put them in a water proof bag and they take you under the falls which is amazing!! He took us under two different ones and despite thinking we couldn’t possibly get any wetter, we did, the falls went straight down the neck of the jacket and filled us up, great experience. “I got filled up by Iguazu Falls
We walked through our third and final trek which takes you to the face of falls and was really nice, the weather had cleared and despite our boots being full of water, we squelched our way round.
We headed home in need of a warm shower and a Frank nap. Everything is just soaked so we’re now in a hotel room in Argentina
It can’t rain like that again tomorrow….. can it?
We’re off out for steak and red wine again, don’t you judge us!!
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