Iguaçu Falls

We arrived in Foz do Iguaça about 9am and went to a hostel we had been recommended which ended up being 12km outside town - a bit of a mission. After showers we went to the Brazilian side of the Iguaçu Falls. The Brazilian side gives a good overall few of the falls but you don´t get that close up. They are stunning and we spent a good hour admiring them from across the river:

I look gross in this picture but it was 35deg:

The next day we went to the Argentinian side of the falls. It´s a bit of a faff because you have to go through immigration and then back again so we went with a driver which was easy. This is us standing on the middle of the bridge between Argentina and Brazil, you can see the different colours on the wall:

On the Argentinian side you can get up much closer to the falls and there is loads to do. First we walked round the top of the falls then we walked lower down and looked up. Then we got a boat across to the island and swam in the river and ate our packed lunch. Then we got the train to the Garganta del Diablo which is the most impressive section and you can get really close. Here´s a selection of the hundreds of photos we now possess:

The beach:

Garganta del Diablo:

One of the many beautiful butterflys we saw:

We had a swim and a chilled out evening hanging round our hostel and packed up ready to move on in the morning.