"Big Water"

Iguazu Falls.... well known as one of the continents big "Ooooh, Ahhhh" spots. And rightly so! "I Guazu" in the tribal locals dialect meaning "Big Water" is seriously big water! Both in height and volume.

Nessled on the border of Argentina and Brazil (and very close to Paraguay), the falls are 2.7 kms wide and consist of 275 waterfalls! Half of the Iguazu falls is the Garganta del Diablo (Devil's Throat); a U-shaped 82-metre-high, 150-metre-wide and 700-metre-long deafening torrent of falling water. Standing at the top of this mighty force is a belittling experience as 1,000,000 Litres of water pour over the edge each second. We spent most of the day just staring at all these falls and being overwhelmed at how cool it all was.







The heat would have been almost unbearable if it wasnt for the lush green jungle providing shade as you walked on the boardwalks between all the viewing platforms and the ability to stand close enough to some of the falls to get drenched in spray (You dried out in less than an hour anyway!).










To get another (even less dry) perspective, Tim took a boat ride that dipped you under some of the smaller sized falls that werent powerful enough to completly squash you. It was a very different experience, but if was mostly sensory overload of sound and touch since there was so much spray you couldnt see a thing! There was the option to see the falls from the Brazil side as well (which apparently gives a more panoramic view of the Devils throat) but us poor Aussies were going to be slugged $100 ish dollars each for a visa that we would use for a whole 2 hours (plus national park entry) making it a very pricey afternoon.



Instead we used our dwindling supply of dinero to try out zip-lining and canyoning. (Zip-lining is a flying fox through the treetops and canyoning is just a fancy name for "abseiling down a waterfall"). All in all a very fun day!