Day 6 – Jun 27, 2019 Peurto Iguazu, Argentina

The Argentina National Park offered second day 50% off deal so we took advantage of it.  We saved the best to the last and visited the Argentina side of Garganta de Diablo today.  Despite it's the low season, the train was jam-packed.  By the time we arrived at the final station and started walking the bridge across the Iguazu River out to the falls, I understood why the Iguazu Falls are so magnificent: the Iguazu River feeding the falls is over 2 km wide!  All that water rushing over several kms of cliff form the amazing and awesome waterfalls!  At the end of the trail, there was a platform hanging at the edge of the gigantic, noisy, wet, misty, thundering, amazing, stupendous, stunning, spectacular, out-of-this-world, _____ (fill in the bland with your own words as I am out of words to describe it) waterfalls.  Watching all that water flowing and tumbling around you is a totally mesmerizing and exhilarating experience.  You don't even mind or noticed that you are totally soaked!  There are not enough words to describe this feeling.  No wonder the Iguazu Falls earned both Brazil and Argentina the honor of UNESCO designation and one of the seven natural wonders in the world!

We went to the Argentina side of the falls for a second day

A gigantic mate cup.  Almost all the locals carry one in their hand to enjoy this drink

A flock of beautiful birds seen on our way across the Iguazu River

The bridge across the Iguazu River seems endless

The river is over 2 km wide!  No wonder the falls are so majestic!

Finally, we arrived at the end of the trail - a platform built right on the edge overlooking the giant falls

Everybody got a raincoat on

Staring at the monstrous Garganta de Diablo right in the eyes

The mother of all waterfalls in the world

Definitely a bucket list item for anyone adventurous 

The huge Brazil side of the Devil's Throat that we saw two days ago now appears as so tiny on the left hand side of this picture (the walkway is on the piece of flat land halfway down the falls)

Our camera cannot do justice to the grandeur and majesty of the Iguazu Falls

Happy to be here and get soaked!

The Devil's Throat is so wide that we have to capture it in two poses (pose #1)

Pose #2 and we are drenched alaready

Back to town, we walked to another landmark, Hito Tres Fronteras, where the Iguazu River joins the Parana River and where the borders of three countries meet up: Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.  You can even jump on a boat on the river touching three countries on a 60 minutes cruise.

Hito Tres Fronteras - The point where three countries (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay) meet.  All three countries have their own version of this landmark on their sides of the border.

There would be fountain and light display here in high season

Iguazu River flows from right to left, joining the Parana River flowing from North to South.  On the right is Brazil.  On the left is Paraguay.