Foz do Iguacu Brazil Side
Trip Start
Nov 13, 2006
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Trip End
May 23, 2007
Iguazu Falls, Brazil
Monday, December 18, 2006
From the Brazil side you get a view which gives you the feeling of how large the falls are, but you are not to close. On the Brazilian side there is a long walkway along the canyon with an extension to the lower base of the "Garganta del Diablo".
The first European to find the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541. Upon seeing Iguaçu, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly exclaimed "Poor Niagara!" Vastly larger than North America's Niagara Falls, Iguaçu is rivaled only by Southern Africa's Victoria Falls which separates Zambia and Zimbabwe.
