We started our great adventure to Igtuazù Falls on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Barb and Steve ZoBell were going and invited us to join them. We went to the travel agent and got our trip and the tours set up. After having our 9:15 am flight postponed twice and then canceled , our 4:25 flight finally left for Iguazú at 5:40pm. Welcome to Aerolineas Argentina! We arrived at Iguazù Airport at 7:20pm.
I will be posting lots of pictures from our trip. Today I´m just putting in a few as teasers:
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| Our Hotel is Canteras, Hotel de la Selva (Hotel in the Jungle) and it really IS! There is a main lodge with a restaurant and then these outlying buildings each have 9 bungalows. More pictures of the hotel, our room and the surrounding area later! |
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| Our Tour guide, Enrique. He was friendly, knowledgeable, spoke perfect English . Only problem, he was over 6 feet tall and had long legs. I had a terrible time keeping up! If I got too far behind he came looking for me, thank goodness! The umbrella wasn´t because of rain, but for identification of the guides. Each one had a different pattern on his or her umbrella and it was easily seen above the crowds of people. |
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| A big of the local topography and sights...and me! |
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| The train that took us to the upper trails |
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| One of the many butterflies we saw. They landed on our hats, hands and shoulders. They seemed to like us more as we went along and got sweatier. They want the salt! |
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| Monkeys and Coaties, Danger: They can bite, scratch and steal things! |
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| Saw a ton of these, a Coati, is in the raccoon family. You have to keep hold of everything. If you put anything down they will run off with it. |
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| The River was extremely high due to heavy rains and we couldn´t go on the lower trails or by boat into the part called the Devil´s Throat. |
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| This isn´t fog, it is the mist rising off the force of the water hitting the rocks below! |
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| Some of these "Saltos" literally "Jumps", but referring to individual falls, don`t even exist in drier times! |
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| Iguazù makes Niagra look like a midget falls. Normally the water is clear, but with the heavy rains the water is carrying a lot of the red clay from up river, turning it a pink-brown. The falls are between Argentina and Brazil. |
Stay tuned for more of our adventures at Iguazù.
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