Nico had demanded that we stay at the Hostel Inn and it was well worth it ! not only was there a huge swimming pool but the night we arrived, they had an asado (BBQ) planned and a tango show.
iguazu falls was definitely one of the places we had planned to see that i was very very excited about.
i had done loads of reading before leaving home and had even watched james bond moonraker again as the falls appear in the film.
i also read that there is a legend that a god planned to marry an aboriginal girl and that when she took off with her mortal lover in a canoe, the god sliced the river creating the waterfalls and condemned the lovers to eternal falls.
We got up early the next morning and caught a bus from just outside of the hotel to the National Park.
I was so excited !!!
as you can see, pappy was really excited too.the park entry fee was pretty reasonable - but we also paid an extra $100 pesos for a ride in an inflatable boat down the river to the falls.
we pulled up in an inlet and the driver rotated the boat so we could all take photos, then he sped us up the river a little further - and we got wet. i mean really really wet.
not only did we get soaked by the falls but there is a lot of water in the boat as well. its just like a shower and a bath in one !!!
they dropped us off at the entrance to one of the walkways and we walked up to meet nico.
at this time of the day, the weather was quite warm but it was starting to cloud over a little.
just as well we were already wet, as for the rest of the day there was a lot of drizzle.
you just dont notice it when you are standing around watching this amount of water spill over the side of a huge drop.
at the end of the day as we were leaving the park, we asked one of the guys who works there whether the falls were at 100% of their capacity or near to it.he told us that earlier in the morning, when we would have been on the boat, the falls were only about 20% capacity. at the end of the day there would have been close to 1,500,000 litres per second passing through the falls.
christ almighty thats a shitload of water !
i uploaded this video to facebook - and i have put it on youtube .. but check out the sound !
see what i mean !
i have another video to load - of the water rushing over devils throat. that was the highlight of the day - butterflies in the tummy kind of highlight. anyway, i will wait for it to upload to youtube and then chuck it in another post.
the next day, mammy and pappy went over to the brazilian side of the falls and the kids (me, nell and nico) spent the day by the pool.
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