Iguazú Falls

We arrive at Puerto Iguazú at 10am 24th Jan, only 2.5 hrs late.. Making it a nice almost 20hr trip, but the bus was comfortable, next time we will sit a little further away from the toilets..Iguazú Falls are situated in the north of Argentina and the river is the boarder between Argentina and Brazil, with Paraguay not too far away. This enables viewing the falls from both countries, however we only viewed it from the Argentinean side. The falls are a world heritage site and are made up of 275 different falls across 2.3km.The afternoon after arriving we caught a bus to check out the upper falls which included the Devil's Throat at the very head, where almost a 500m wide river falls away into a gorge 50m wide, dropping 70 m. No need to trek for days through the jungle to see this, you just board the mini train at the entrance and then head out along some quality board walks over the top of the river. When you walk up to the top viewing platform which sits right on the edge, it is a truly breath taking moment as you feel as though the world is collapsing in on itself. Worth the trip!We then wandered back through the hoards of tourists, all surprisingly Argentinean and Brazilians, not many Aussies, Japs, or Yanks.The following day we headed back out in the morning to see the falls from the bottom, the same just this time looking up, and you get wetter. Before leaving we did the short walk back to the main centre along a path through the jungle, seeing heaps of parakeets, but unfortunately we didn't see any cute little jaguar or puma cubs, caiman, or monkeys, which all can be found... Although some rarer than others.