After New Years in Rio, Alyece, Elron and I headed on a short little 22 hour bus ride South to Iguazu Falls. These falls have been named one of the seven wonders of the modern world and in reading up we found that when Eleanor Roosevelt visited the falls she exclaimed ´Poor Niagra!´ hee hee. The falls border Argentina and Brazil: Brazil having about 30 percent of the falls and Argentina having the other 70 percent. The waterfall system consists of 275 falls along 2.7 kilometers of the Iguazu River. The pictures are backwards in order, but the first day we hung out at the Brazilian side and then our second day we spent over on the Argentinian side. There are no words to describe the beauty, strength and wonder of this place and so we decided not to try. Pictures also do not do it much justice but we put on a ton to try and capture just a little of it. Even though the place was packed full with tourists, the falls were completely overwhelming and we were all awestruck.
These falls originated 200 thousand years ago in the place that today is known as “The Three Frontiers” marked with stone pillars, where the Iguazu and the Paraná river meet. As wikipedia tells us, ´Legend has it that a god planned to marry a beautiful aborigine named Naipí, who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a canoe. In rage, the god sliced the river creating the waterfalls, condemning the lovers to an eternal fall´.
(´Salto Dos Hermanas´ - Translated: Two Sisters Waterfall ....Perfect!)
(The violence of the falls produce a permanent fog, where sunbeams form multiple rainbows that are super wicked)
(No large tourist spot would be the same without an Asian tour group)
(Our quick Titantic re-inactment)
(Safety First!!!)
(We had to pay 5 dollars to have Elron photoshopped into this picture... ha ha)
(Moving to our view from the Brazilian side)
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