We arrived in the town of Puerto Iguazu in the pouring rain, having met Fiona and Ross on the flight (our paths had crossed twice before in El Calafate and Buenos Aires) and we arranged to have dinner and drinks together that evening. The accommodation was above our South American budget at £70 a night but it was luxurious and although a bit extravagant, our currency dealing in Buenos Aires left us feeling the desire for lavish living.

The Iguazu Falls are situated on each side of the Argentinian/Brazilian border and our first sight of the falls was from the river via the Argentina side …. We had taken a fast boat through the rapids and suddenly there it was - An amazing sight. Water was cascading at different levels in a seemingly endless array of falls, and the boat continued right into a major fall area, stopping inches from where the water crashed down from above - the heavy spray gave zero visibility and totally drenched us all. It was a very exhilarating and an exciting start to our first day of exploration. The Argentinian falls took a whole day to explore but it was amazing, the most spectacular being a group of falls called the "Devils Throat" which roared with deafening power from a huge height and even created its own rainbows within the falls - In all our travels only the Perito Moreno glaciers came close to matching it as a natural "wonder".

On the next day we visited the Brazilian side of the falls, which was also spectacular but more from an overall vista. Someone said that the Brazilian side was like watching a movie and the Argentinian side like being in the movie which I think captures the difference in a nutshell.

When we were ready to leave, the buses went on strike and we had to catch a very expensive flight to Salta, exhausting all our currency gains ……. Easy come, easy go.