Iguazu Falls

The Iguazu falls are located at the Brazil/Paraguay/Argentina border and are truely spectacular, with 275 individual waterfalls about 80m high (taller than the Niagra falls!) along over 2km of the Iguazu river.

We met a couple from England on the bus to Foz do Iguazu, so we spent a fun couple of days seeing the falls with them. We firstly visited the Brazilian side (the sunny photos!), which gives more of a panoramic overview of the falls but also includes a walkway to the base of Garganta del Diablo (Devil´s Throat), which is the most impressive of the falls and marks the border between Brazil and Argentina.

That night, after crossing the border to the Argentinian side, we did a moonlight walk of the falls. Seeing the falls under a full moon was awesome! We were stoked to get the chance to do it, given the moonlight walk only takes place on 5 nights each month around the full moon.

The next day we visited the falls from the Argentinian side, which is part of a large national park (full of walkways through rainforest and vibrant coloured birds and butterflies) and enables a much closer view via a number of catwalks over the waterfalls. A highlight here was the speedboat trip we took which went to the base of some of the waterfalls and had us completely saturated by the end of it!

The falls are definitely a highlight of our trip to date.

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