iguazu dia uno

alright people, this is the story of the week. i flew up to puerto iguazu, argentina yesterday after my flight was delayed for a couple of hours and i was forced to buy a sudoku book.

i headed on my way to brazil this morning, got lost and rejected around the customs and turned around just in time to get really ripped off by my taxi driver. nevertheless, the day was a complete success considering that i got to see the biggest waterfalls ever. (don´t quote me on that.) this is the first time i´ve ever done anything like this by myself so i´d like to think that it was a good experience whether or not i made good decisions, right? like this for example, i thought it´d be really really cool to get up right next to the falls so i shelled out 50 pesos to go on the boat tour. something that i didn´t know about this boat tour is that the point of it is less to see the waterfalls and more to get you wet. so, i emerged, wet and cold and surprised from this adventure. the next adventure was the general hiking around in the mist with my camera while sogging wet and trying to see everything at once. that worked out.

but there´s one thing that i really can´t figure out. how wide are the falls, really? i think that i´ve seen the end of them on the argentine side, but they seem to go on forever and ì´m not really sure how. i just know they´re big. when you start walking towards the falls you pass a bunch of big waterfalls that would be impressive on their own but you just hear this distant roar while you´re tinkering through the jungle on your own, or behind a huge tour group of loud germans, as it may be. here´s a map of the park, i did the argentine side today.


i would love to show you the 1001 pictures that i took, but that may have to wait until when i am well fed at home. for now i´m going to go soo to make egginaholes in the hostel kitchen. before i do though, you have to hear about the throat of the devil. this is the second throat of the devil that i´ve encountered in argentina, apparently it´s a popular subject or well known, or something. anyhow, you walk a kilo out on catwalks over river, which appears more like a fast moving lake, until you start seeing a cloud of mist rising in front of you. then you start getting wet and you know you´re close. then all of the sudden you´re standing on the edge of the huge waterfall that is all in a horseshoe shape crashing into oblivion. if i can get into brazil tomorrow, i´m going to walk into the middle of that bad boy. anywho, that was my favorite part just watching the gallons and gallons and tons and tons of water fly out into open air and disappear into the cloud. here´s a cool pic of it i found.


last words: coatis eat plastic here, butterflies are everywhere and i want to see a rainbow tomorrow because it was too cloudy today. i´m out!