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So early on Friday morning we arrived in Iguazu to see the infamous Iguazu waterfalls. The falls are supposed to be spectacular. Legend has it that they were caused by a jelous forest God, enraged by a warrior escaping downriver by canoe with a young girl he caused the riverbed to collapse in front of the lovers, producing a precipitious falls over which the girl fell and, at their base, turned into a rock. The warrior suvived as a fallen tree looking over his lost love. A more plausable (tho far less romantic) explanation is however that in Southern Brazil the Rio Iguazu passes over a basalt plateau that ends just above its confluence with the parana (yeah, i know my stuff!) and before reaching the edge the river divides into many channels to form several distinctive cataratus to create the semi-circular Garganta del Diablo (Devils throat). So wheres the bungy jump then?!
Anyway, the following day we set off from our hostel (with the moodiest staff on the planet) to witness these spectacular and deafening falls- we were supposed to be doing the Great Adventure tour which would involve treks around the falls and an apparently very wet speedboat journey which goes nearlly under the falls. Unfortunately for us, due to a surplus amount of rainfall previously, we weren't able to do the Great adventure and had to entertain ourselves instead with the Inferior and Superior falls. To be honest though these falls were spectacular in their own right- probable the most amazing falls i have ever seen and due to the rain we had the most beautiful rainbows going straight over them so i can't say we were too dissappointed. We also had a brief encounter in the national park with these strange creatures which look like a cross between a raccoon and a squirrel- anyway they tried to eat us and it was very frightning.
Back at the hostel we witnessed our first bit of sun for a while so soaked that up whilst waiting for another LONG bus to take us to Florianopolis.
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