Foz Do Iguacu

After arriving in Foz Do Iguacu at 8 in the morning we quickly found our new digs. Thanks to us now taking the address and name of our hostel with us...lol. The hostel had arranged a tour of the falls for that day, so we quickly dumped our stuff in the room and headed out with the rest of the party to the Argentinian side of the falls.

Thankfully the tour was guided which meant that we managed to squeeze everything that we could in to the trip. First off was the walk around the lower section of the falls which gave fantastic views of the falls and the surrounding area from a distance. then we were on to the power boats which took us out to and under the smaller falls, ensuring that we were well and truly soaked.

We then went on to the middle island, which took us closer to the falls, and the 250 steps up to the views were definitely worth it ( at least in my opinion ). On the way back down we saw a group of butterflies on the beach, and Arlene was in her element, soon standing amongst them for her picture.

After that it was a quick walk up to catch the last train through the amazon out to the biggest of the falls ( the devils throat ). Once there the views were amazing, and the pictures don't even begin to do justice too the views and experience that we had... despite the number that we took. It was simply incredible, and blew us away...

The next few days we sunbathed, until i was bored rigid, and needed to do something. So we went back to the falls but this time on the Brazilian side. You'll be glad to hear that we forgot to put the memory card back in to the camera, so you don't have to endure more pictures of the same waterfalls...but it was definitely worth going to see.

The rest of the week was fairly quiet with us sunbathing, relaxing, trying exotic food ( chicken hearts, and turkey testicles ) and planning the next part of our journey... so it's Argentina, Bolivia, Peru then down to Santiago for the flight to New Zealand. We leave for Argentina tomorrow to book the bus to Salta, 23 hours in the bus :o( and will take things from there...

We have started uploading videos to you tube. So search for garryfitz26 and you should see them from there. The camera work is a little all over the place but we re working on that...lol.

Garry and Arlene xxxxxx