We were at iguassu falls today and yesterday. I don't think that my creative writing and thesaurus skills are quite up to describing it. Its huge and incredible and loud and wet and just fully awesome. Actually in the literal sense if the word!
Really it felt like every time we came around a corner there were more water falls!! We were ooing and ahhing like crazy people!! Yesterday we visited the Brazil side which has a really good overview of the scale of the falls, today we went to the Argentina side where we got right up close to them all (and very wet)!!
Some facts which might give you an idea of scale...
The total edge of the waterfall is 2.7 km long! The falls vary from 60 to 82 m high. There are about 150 to 300 waterfalls in total depending on the water level. About half of the river's flow falls into a long and narrow chasm called the Devil's Throat (Garganta del Diablo in Spanish orGarganta do Diabo in Portuguese). The Devil's Throat is U-shaped, 82 metres high, 150 m wide, and 700 m long.
Its all pretty epic!!! On the Argentina side there are heaps of viewing platforms right up to or on top of the waterfalls. Plus an island in the middle to take a boat to to get another angle!
Here are a few pictures which hopefully describe it better than I can!! Jeremy has got really good at taking panoramas on his phone.
Just now we are waiting to catch a 17 hour bus to Buenos Aires overnight tonight!
Love Gem and Jez
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