Iguassu translated from Guarana means big water, consisting of 275 individual falls Iguassu is 4 times wider than Niagara. The falls have featured numerous times in films including Moonraker, The Mission and the recent remake of Miami vice.
Booking ourselves onto a tour we set off for the falls by foot, train, 4x4 and boat. The boat trip involved a wash under one of the falls. Probably the most spectacular part of the falls is Garganta de Diablo, which after visiting made our way back by dingy through the Iguassu river, keeping a safe distance of 200m from the falls. Being the only passengers our guide let us take a much needed cool dip in the river.
Shelley taking a dip in the Iguassu river
Being covered in sweat most of the time you are constantly surrounded by butterflies, occasionally landing on you to lick up the salt from the sweat. Being the Jungle the Butterflies and Toucans are but a few of the inhabitants. We saw several Tengo Lizards and Coatis. After insisting all morning that the little raccoon creatures were Coatis, Shelley was still disputing the fact until one appeared under a "do not feed the Coatis" sign, looking just likes it´s picture, nice ;-)
A Coatis cleaning up after lunch
A Tengo lizzard
The debate on the classification of wildlife species didn´t stop with the Coatis. The swimming pool at night attracts some huge insects and the animals that feed on them. I´m confident that all the swooping animals, several hundred of them, were Dusky Swifts whereas Shelley insisited they were bats. To prove how strongly she believed this, she ran screaming back to the hotel waving imaginary bats out of her hair, crazy girl ;-)
Highlights: The falls and not been eaten by any of the wildlife
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