El primer dia de las Cataratas de Iguazu

Hey Guys,
Last Thursday I left Buenos Aires for Puerto Iguazu in the northernmost point of Argentina, a place famous for Las Cataratas and La Triple Frontera. I left Thursday evening for a bus-ride that lasted 20 hours. The trip wasn't too bad. We arrived to a sunny and warm tropical Iguazu, put our bags in the hostel and left for Las Cataratas, the waterfalls. Iguazu Falls is a series of over 250 waterfalls in one area where Brazil and Argentina meet, the highest point of the waterfalls, La Garganta del Diablo (the devils throat) is about four times the size of Niagra Falls. By the time we got to the park where the falls are located clouds began to roll in so we were unable to see the falls on a sunny day.

We took the train to La Garganta and then walked along a long and narrow bridge to the falls. As we got closer the noise from the water falls became louder and louder, and we finally saw some mist rising up but the falls didnt look like anything impressive at first. Then we finally got to the end of the path and the massiveness of La Garganta left us in amazement. We saw hundreds of thousands of liters of water rushed over the sides of the falls. I cant even think of words to describe what I saw. It was just amazing to see that large of a waterfall, pretty much in the same form as when the first European settlers discovered it hundreds of years ago. As the mist rose from the water falling I could easily see how one could think that they reached the end of the world. The mist makes it seem as if the water is falling into space and there is no land below.

After we stood in amazement looking at La Garganta we decided to check out the upper circuit of the water falls. The walk along the upper circuit was amazing because we were able to see most of the waterfalls from the top of where they began to fall. As we walked down one path a monkey jumped across the path from one tree to another. I was amazed and tried to take a picture of it but I was too slow. As we came across the spot where it crossed we looked up and saw that there were about 20 monkeys hanging around. The experience of live monkeys in the jungle was pretty neat. Well, that was my first day there. When I get some more time Ill let you guys know about my second day there and how it went.