The hotel I am staying in is in the park grounds; I took a small train that takes you to the path to get to “The Devil's Throat” or “Garganta del Diablo” in Spanish. The Throat is the main feature of the falls. See the photos and you will see what I mean. There was many groups of people jostling for position to take photos in front of the falls.
An impatient older lady in said something in Korean to make me move as she pushed me out of the way. Isn't funny how you be looking at something so beautiful and people cannot just wait a minute to give people a chance to have a look. The falls were not about to dry up and run out of water. I took the time to admire the majesty of the falls for a little while.
There are a few paths in the park to see different sections of the falls; I walked along alll of them today. I was not having much luck in seeing wildlife; with all the people about the park, the animals keep to themselves. I did hear that other people saw: an anteater, caimain, monkeys and a family of coatis (a type of raccoon); I did see some vultures and fish and many little birds. It also rained quite a bit today; I am going to visit some of the paths again tomorrow if the sun is out.
After lunch, I went on a guided tour that was first by a truck through one of the roads in the park and then a by boat to go right up to the waterfalls. I got so wet and so did everybody else on the boat; we went into one of the waterfalls not once but twice. You cannot see a much when you are in the spray of a waterfall; what a hoot. It was raining pretty much the whole time that I was on the boat. The boat was moving quite fast and the raindrops felt like they were exfolliating my skin with the force of impact
During my stay in Iguazu; I had met people from Seattle (yeah, the Pacific Northwest which Vancouver is part of; ask Douglas Coupland what he thinks), Greece and Australia.
Tomorrow, I shall return to Buenos Aires in the afternoon.
I have seen the waterfalls at Iguazu and they are incredible. The day however did not go off as planned. I was supposed to go on a excursion to the Brazilian side of the falls; I got up at quarter to seven in the morning for a 7:30 start. But I did not have a visa to enter Brazil so I had to get off the tour bus; I was a bit annoyed; I was told the day before that I did not need a visa. I did not actually know that I was booked on a trip into Brazil until I got to Iguazu. The travel agency was surprised that I had any problem and shall refund the fee for the trip I never took. It took me some time to get over my grumpiness; shit happens. I was travelling on my Canadian passport and Brazil requires that visitors from Canada to have a visa; I understand the politics behind it.