Getting wet at the falls!
The bus journey was almost as bad as we´d expected. Our seats were quite near the smelly toilets at the back and just 54 minutes (Ad was timing!) into the journey the little girl behind us started being sick all over herself . . .nice! Things didn´t improve and we watched Spanish movie after Spanish movie whilst being served hot slop . . . . definitely no whiskey or Tia Maria!
We eventually arrived at Puerto Iguazu and set off to see the famous waterfalls. Now we had heard great stories about these falls but really, come on, they´re just big waterfalls, how impressive could they really be?
Absolutely amazing . . . seriously, words just can´t describe how awesome the Iguazu falls are, utterly breath taking. After standing at the top and gawking at them for ages whilst jostling for prime photo positions with thousands of Argentinian tourists we decided to take a boat trip to the bottom of the falls. Whilst booking our tickets the boat operator smiled and just said, ´be prepared to get a bit wet´. A bit wet was an understatement to say the least.
We sat in a little speed boat and raced towards the bottom of the falls at high speed. We expected to stop a short distance from the waterfalls and were looking forwards to experiencing their ferociousness close up. However, our captain had other plans, with a wicked little laugh he steered us right up to the bottom of the falls so that the water was falling directly onto us. It was like sitting in a power shower fully clothed . . but worse!
The following day we made our final border crossing of the trip, destination Brazil. As we were pretty hooked on the falls by this point we decided to go and have a look at
them from the Brazilian side. The views were even more spectacular and we also got to walk out on a platform above the falls and look down the face, pretty scary. We thought these views were good but apparently in the early days of Latin American tourism you used to be able to hire a mad boatsman who would row you to the top of the falls and then paddle furiously backwards while you happily enjoyed the views and took photos. After a while though the inevitable happened and a boat plummeted over the edge so that was the end of that. Pretty glad it wasn´t still an option as my travel partner would have definitely wanted a go!
And so we boarded yet another night bus (one thing I´m not going to miss!) and continued our journey into Brazil.
We eventually arrived at Puerto Iguazu and set off to see the famous waterfalls. Now we had heard great stories about these falls but really, come on, they´re just big waterfalls, how impressive could they really be?
Absolutely amazing . . . seriously, words just can´t describe how awesome the Iguazu falls are, utterly breath taking. After standing at the top and gawking at them for ages whilst jostling for prime photo positions with thousands of Argentinian tourists we decided to take a boat trip to the bottom of the falls. Whilst booking our tickets the boat operator smiled and just said, ´be prepared to get a bit wet´. A bit wet was an understatement to say the least.We sat in a little speed boat and raced towards the bottom of the falls at high speed. We expected to stop a short distance from the waterfalls and were looking forwards to experiencing their ferociousness close up. However, our captain had other plans, with a wicked little laugh he steered us right up to the bottom of the falls so that the water was falling directly onto us. It was like sitting in a power shower fully clothed . . but worse!
The following day we made our final border crossing of the trip, destination Brazil. As we were pretty hooked on the falls by this point we decided to go and have a look at
them from the Brazilian side. The views were even more spectacular and we also got to walk out on a platform above the falls and look down the face, pretty scary. We thought these views were good but apparently in the early days of Latin American tourism you used to be able to hire a mad boatsman who would row you to the top of the falls and then paddle furiously backwards while you happily enjoyed the views and took photos. After a while though the inevitable happened and a boat plummeted over the edge so that was the end of that. Pretty glad it wasn´t still an option as my travel partner would have definitely wanted a go!And so we boarded yet another night bus (one thing I´m not going to miss!) and continued our journey into Brazil.
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