Iguazu Falls

According to the Lonely Planet, you should sit on the left side of the plane when you fly to Iguazu, in order to get a view of the falls when you land.
So I make sure that I check in soon enough to get a window on the left side. Very proud of me, I keep my camera with me during the flight, and refrain from sleeping, in order not to miss the show.
And here is what I saw just before landing....

The fog was so thick that you could hardly view the wing of the plane. Loooooser...

First border crossing (it won't be the last, I am going to spend the next 3 days crossing it again and again), in order to get to the hostel which is in Argentina, because Puerto Iguazu seems to be a lot smaller and nicer than Foz de Iguaçu.
Let's hope that Argentinian border officers save paper, and won't stamp half of the pages of my passport by the end of the week, I would like to keep it for a couple more years.
On Brazilian side, they just don't give a damn, you can enter the country, or get out of it, they don't seem to be worrying about it.

After 10 days trying to force my brain to use the little bit of Portuguese I remember (and don't use Spanish, please), now I have to switch back to Spanish, which should be a lot easier after 18 months spent in Spain, but the stupid brain got accustomed to Portuguese, and doesn't seem to be willing to moe back to Spanish.
In addition to this, as I keep on crossing the border, each time I need to say a word I have to think about where I am, in order to chose the proper language (and same thing for the currency).

Here you can feel that you have moved to the South, the weather is a lot colder now, they even offer to switch on the heating in the hostel. No, thanks.

This place is famous for hosting lots of coatis. I really hoped that I would have the opportunity to see one, because they are so cuuuute :)))
But in fact, the problem is not to get to see them, it is more to avoid walking on them. Wherever you go, you are surrounded by coatis, everywhere.
Watch out, in front of you, behind you, if you move without checking first, you can be sure that you will step on one of them.

Iguazu means "big water" in Guarani language.
Waterfalls and cataracts vary between 60 to 82 meters high.
The number of these smaller waterfalls fluctuates from 150 to 300, depending on the water level.
Approximately half of the river's flow falls into a long and narrow U-shaped chasm called the Devil's Throat, with the following dimensions: 82 by 150 by 700 meters

The total amount of water running through the falls is 12,000,000 liters per second.

There is no word to describe this wonder, just check the pictures

  

  

  

  

  

Time to leave Iguazu and fly back to Rio. 10am, still 3°C outside, I will be waiting for the 2 buses for about one hour, let's hope I will avoid pneumonia.