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  Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
Monday, January 21, 2008

We just spent a wonderful few days in Iquazu, which is the location of another national park, Iquazu Falls. It was a great day and definitely rates in our top three so far...

There were three different trails and walkways to experience the waterfalls from different vantage points. All were really impressive. The big one is called Devil's Throat. It was unbelievable to see the amount of water spilling over the sides. However, we both liked the others a bit more...they were not as big but the views were just amazing.

We took two boat rides. One was just a row boat through the jungle region of the park. We saw a mama caymen which was about 5 feet long and she was protecting a nest of eggs. We also saw some cool birds but that was about it.

Our second boat ride was a bit more fun. These boats were high powered speed boats that would drive into the falls where you would get absolutely soaked. We got to experience this madness twice. It was like a water ride in an amusement park. Really fun...

The other highlights was that we stayed at a very popular hostel in Iguazu. We ran into Dan and Lucinda, two friends from Australia that we celebrated Christmas with in La Paz, Bolivia from our GAP tour. Then, about two hours later, we reconnected with Linda and Niall from Ireland who were our bunkmates on the Navimag ferry in Patagonia. We had a great time catching up with both couples and hearing all of their stories. This hostel was huge and had a nice pool (actually used to be the casino in town). It was a fun time seeing other travelers AND we even ran into Fe who was on our horrible bus from La Paz to Uyuni on Christmas day! What a small, small world.

We ended South America with a great experience!!!

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dan layton and luce	all you can eat in iguazu	lots of meat	reunited with dan, lucinda, linda and niall
poor english sign	train to devil's throat	heeps of people	from the back of devil's throat
monkey arms in devil's throat	monkey arms again	trying to show the volume	lots of water by the second
a shot of the brazilian side	trying to show shot to the bottom	LOTS of mist!!	more pics
brazil side, see the lookout	brazil again	devil's throat	devil's throat 2
cool close up of the water	shooting down the river	again down the river	devil's throat straight on
neat ledge	neat ledge 2	VOLUME	so hard to capture
just different shots	argentina flag	cool map	mama caymen watching out
she is worried about us	YIKES	this bird is drying off its wings to fly	layton and nature at one...
butterfly did not want to leave!	shot from the top	great falls and lots of them!	you cannot count them
SO beautiful	trying to get some individually	monkey arms	another good monkey arms
from the top	pretty neat to see	where they all meet	so many levels
it is so hard to decide	LOTS of water from this one	parrots	more close up of the parrots
man this is a great view!!	WE LOVE THIS!!	devil's throat from far away	ahhh, this is awesome!
just a nice scene	love the constant falling	monkey arms	another shot
lots of waterfalls!	again, can't even count them all!	boat going into the waterfall, woohoo!	man, we love this place!
not the best of pics, but still good	straight up	ta da!!	amazing!!
linda getting off the boat	they kept on following us... hehe	here's before	pic from the boat
pic before getting soaked!	the first waterfall that soaked us	great shot of the devil's throat	three musketeers
WOW!	after	after 2	free drinks at the hostel inn
Niall and Layton hanging out	Video capturing volume at devil's throat

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