23 April, 2010 - Day 3

After a night of the wake up - sleep - wake up game we got a 6AM wakeup call, went to breakfast which was also delicious, and then ended up in Argentina! I was super excited because I didn't realize we were going to Argentina and I had never been there before. After going quickly through customs, bus style, we were in and the falls were just as awesome from a different country. We got out of the bus, it began to rain, we got in a 4x4 jeep and rode through the jungle to a place where we got out and hiked down to the water. Once we got to the water we put on life jackets, took off our shoes and put as much as we could in the dry bags they gave us [which still managed to get water inside of them] and were off. We sped towards the place where a mountain splits and there were falls on both sides, so we rode around to take pictures of both sides then were told to put our cameras into the dry bags. We went right underneath both falls, got beyond soaked, and did some crazy boating turns and things until we were about to drown, then were dropped off for another hike.

By this point it had stopped raining, but who cared? Everyone was drenched and there was no way around that, but it had been so awesome to be underneath all that water. We hiked more and saw new falls as well as old falls from new views. Eventually we stopped for a snack then kept on with the walking. Lunch came about eventually and it was a good buffet - something I am ready to live without for a while - then more hikes. We took a group picture and then got on a train towards devil's throat. Once the train let us off we walked for a while until we got to what looked like an unimpressive place where some water met. And from that far away it was boring, but once you got to be on top of it you could tell that a lot of falls met here and caused huge mist balls to attack people on the bridge. It was very cool [literally] and after marveling for a while we took the train back to the main part of the park.

After a 10 minute gift shop stop and a run in with my Child Development teacher [who was not travelling with our group] we hopped back on the bus to keep on with our day. We made it to an extremely overpriced gift shop that sold everything in the world I would have bought under less expensive situations - instead I stood in the parking lot by the road and took pictures of the sunset which everyone else missed while they paid $40 for t-shirts. From there, we got cleaned up in the hotel and headed to dinner and a "cultural" show. Dinner was deliciously amazing and dessert included [but was not limited to] cake that tasted like smores and 3 different flavours of ice cream / sorbet. The show was about the different South American countries and was ok, but I spent my time making cranes and doing graffiti for Thiago [our tour guide] who had already seen the show 300 times and told me all I needed to know.