Our final sightseeing excursion for Argentina was up to Puerto Iguazu and the very famous water falls. Apparently when Eleanor Roosevelt saw Iguazu she exclaimed oh "Poor Nigara"! Although we had not seen Niagra falls we had certainly heard of them and yet somehow before embarking on this trip we hadn't had heard anything of the phenomenon that is the Iguazu Falls. However throughout the whole of south america fellow travellers had all said the same - amazing - and so we headed off on a nice little 17 hour bus journey to see for ourselves.
Unfortunately we weren't able to get seats on super duper first class for this mega journey, but we went for the next best thing. Which apparently in this bus companies eyes meant booze! Whisky before dinner, wine and beer during dinner and 'champagne' afterwards! The journey went by surprisingly quickly! But we decided perhaps we needed a day or two with a little less drink, especially when we arrived bright and not very sparkly Sunday morning.
After a quick freshen up we headed out for the first view of the falls. Iguazu falls border Brazil and Argentina and so you can 'pop' across to Brazil for the afternoon to see the falls from their side. We felt like fish out of water in Brazil, suddenly we couldn't understand the language!
The falls are epic - 2.7 kilometers across!
The falls were indeed amazing, absolutley huge and very loud. But it wasn't until we visited them the next day from Argentina that we really were blown away.
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