The Iguazu Waterfalls (9 - 12 July 2008)
Seeing the best of the best and the biggest of the big is quite an experience, but it definitely has a downside as well. Let me explain: visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia made it very difficult to be stunned by any other temple. Seeing Perito Moreno glacier, made other smaller glaciers seem less impressive. And now we were on our way to see one of the biggest waterfalls in the world, Iguazu. And even though it meant that any other beautiful waterfall will have very little impact on me, I was still extremely excited.
We decided to spoil ourselves on the 16 hour bus ride and we booked a full-cama bus to Iguazu and a super-cama bus for the return journey to Buenos Aires. To refresh your memory - the super-cama bus has full reclining seats, basically seats converting into beds. It is the bus version of a first class flight - champagne included!
So on arrival in Puerto Iguazu, we felt really well rested - a huge improvement on the usual monster-like personalities we adopt after an overnight bus 
We joyfully leapt through the streets in search of a hostel - okay, not quite, our bags were way too heavy for that! We settled on the lovely Hostal Peter Pan and spent the rest of the day wandering about town. Puerto Iguazu is a small town in the far north eastern part of Argentina. It is right at the border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. The main attraction of the town is the waterfalls; other than this, the town does not have much to offer.
The next day it was off to the mother of all waterfalls. The Iguazu falls are split between Argentina and Brazil, and in total, the falls are over 2km across. There are major debates on which side, Argentina or Brazil, has the better view of the falls. We were about to find out. We decided to spend the first day at the Argentinean side and then go to the Brazilian side the next day.
The Argentinean side took just about the entire day to cover. The park has many short routes that lead to individual waterfalls. Here we saw many of the waterfalls up close, got soaking wet at one of the view points from the bottom of the river and had a grand finale with the big overview of Devil’s Throat.
The next day we hopped over the border to Foz de Iguaçu to view the Brazilian side of the falls. For the first time in about four months we found ourselves in a non-Spanish speaking country and we were not prepared for this ‘culture shock’. Before taking the local bus to the park, we popped into a shwarma eatery and were overcharged for a very small lunch, mainly because we did not know the system and the language. Even a simple thing like catching the bus was a challenge for us
We finally made it to the Brazilian side of the falls. This visit was much shorter than the Argentinean one, but we had a better overall view. We could see the true immensity of the falls - more than 180 degrees view of waterfalls around us with beautiful circular rainbows to take our breaths away.
There is not much more to write about the waterfalls - they are massive, they are beautiful, no other waterfall will ever impress me again Now, are you ready to see all the pictures?
Click on the link below to view the gallery for Iguazu: