We arrived in Iguazu at around 2pm after a long journey. We had managed to sleep well on the bus though, so a nap wasn´t required once we got into town. The first thing we noticed when we got off the bus was the heat. It had been warm in Buenos Aires, but this was a real step up, and must have been +30°C. There isn´t a great deal to do in the town itself, but the main attraction is the famous Iguazú Falls, which is just a few miles down the road.

When we checked into the hostel, we were pleased with our room. We had only paid for a double room, but as the place was quiet we got an entire apartment to ourselves. Luckily this included a TV, so I spent the afternoon watching the Liverpool game, whilst Amy read her book. In the evening we went out for some food, then a couple of drinks in the bar before an early night.

We were up early the next day to go to the falls. There are buses running every 40 minutes or so, but we just missed one and had to wait around the station for the next one. When we made it to the park we paid ourselves in, then made our plan of action. The complex is quite large, with several different walking tracks and viewpoints that expand over both the Argentine and Brazilian sides of the border, and easily takes all day to get around (we didn´t actually have time to get to the Brazilian side, but everyone says that the Argentine is beter anyway!).

We decided to start with the two lower tracks, and almost as soon as we got going we saw a massive lizard then a Coatie (See photo album) within a few yards of each other. The first section of the track takes in a few smaller waterfalls, but we first saw the main falls from a distance and couldn´t believe the scale. Apparently there are 275 waterfalls, stretching over 2.7km of the Iguazú river. We spent a couple of hours along the lower tracks and stood under a couple of the bigger falls on a walkway where we got soaked. We saw a couple more Coaties and lizards along the way, not to mention thousands of butterflies. One of the coaties even climbed into a bin and pulled out loads of scraps to eat.

We stopped for some highly overpriced lunch, then set off on a short train journey to reach the upper track that leads to the Devil´s Throat - A U-shaped, 82-meter-high, 150-meter-wide and 700-meter-long torrent that is easily the most impressive part of the falls. By the time we had got back from the Devil´s Throat we were a bit tired from a day in the sun, but we decided to fit in the 2 hour return nature trail. Once we started it we wished we hadn´t though. We saw a small rodent along the way that we think might have been a baby cappybarra, but apart from that all we saw were hundreds of mosquitos, and we were getting exhausted from the heat. When we eventually made it back we caught the bus home and took advantage of the aircon in our room, then had a lazy evening until bed.

The next morning we were up early to check out of the hostel. We planned to move on to Asuncion in Paraguay. The border was only a few miles away, but we had about a 6 hour journey to the capital. Whilst waiting to leave the hostel we got chatting to a guy from New Zealand called Hamish. He was also planning to go our way, so we invited him to travel with us. We waited for him to quickly pack, then set off having enjoyed our time in Iguazú.