Day 19 : The falls!

We arrived in the National Park of Iquazu early in the morning ready for a day of looking at water falls. To be honest, I thought I would get bored pretty quickly! Honestly how many waterfalls can you look at in one day. Once you´ve seen one they all pretty much look the same, right?! I was pretty far wrong!

The falls are absolutely amazing! (I say that quite a lot on this Blog!) There are a few different trails you can take to see all sides of the waterfalls. The first trail is an upper trail which brings you along the top of some of the water falls. This was a really cool perspective but what we all really wanted was to be at the bottom to feel the power of the falls. The sun was in the sky and there was rainbows created everywhere with the haze coming off the falls. A really beautiful sight!

The lower trail is the one everyone raves about and rightly so! You get so close to one of the falls that you get absolutely soaked. Ronan was prepared because he was wearing his swimming shorts and had a dry tee-shirt in the bag! Me and Joe didn´t have a towel between us!

Three of us standing beside one of the falls

Ronan was very happy to be there!

The next section of the trip was a boat ride. This was the part I was looking forward to the most. The boat is a huge speed boat with two 150HP engines.

Nothing like Lough Conn!

The trip takes you into a waterfall and brings you as close as you can safely get. We got soaked as the powerful mist from the waterfall hit us with such force that it almost hurt at times. Then the boat sped down the river towards Garganta del Diablo or the Devil´s throat! This was amazing! (Again!)

Joe and the Devils Throat

Rainbow Joe

Ro decides he wants to go for a swim

We got really close to the bottom of the falls where we couldn´t even turn to face it the force was so strong! We were brought back to the dock as wet as ducks! We walked back to the train station and got the train over to the walkway that leads you over the Garganta del Diablo. Again, amazing! This is a one and a half kilometer walk over walkways which go the whole way across the rivers and over the fall! The views from the end platform of the falls are astonishing, astounding, fantastic, phenomenal, stupendous and marvelous! (I couldn´t use the word amazing again!) We spent about 45mins taking pictures and just watching the falls before heading back to the train and then eventually the hostel. Overall a wonderfully wet visit to the falls and highly recommended to anyone!

We went back to the hostel and settled in for the night with the guys and had some food and beer. Another great day in Argentina!


Charlie