Teh Foz

Foz De iguaçu

The hostel we're at is really cool, its basically a huge house with little or no sign of people actually 'working' here. Everything works on an honesty system, you just grab beers/shots from the bar and write them down in a book and the internet works in the same way. The guys are really helpful, they hooked us up with a tour of the Brazillian side of the falls for $r150 (about $100au) , this got us a half hour bus trip there and back, we jumped the massive entry line to the park, got a super, upclose look at the falls, went on a 9 km bike ride through some insane rainforest, a boat ride up the iguazu river, some kyaking and even a little lunchbox!

Our boat broke down at one stage about 2kms upstream from the BIGGEST WATERFALLS ON THE PLANET, we were heading towards them quite fast which got me a big nervous, but the tother guys kept thier cool.

In total there's 270 falls that span the entire front of the river, they just keep going on and on. There was these little animals that kind of look like bandicoots everywhere, picking up any food that anyone dropped, one even drinknng up an icecream. When we reached Devil's Throat and walked out over the platform leading to the center of the U shaped fall, the noise and spray coming off the falls was overwhelming. Looking up at the wall of water pounding down infront of us was one of the most incredible things ive ever seen.

When we arrived home from our little boat breaking down session we headed down to a place called 'Tropicana', which for 12 reis gives you an all you can eat meat buffet! at the front of the eating area a huge, open wood fired barbecuce cooked masses of meats on metal poles, to which the cooks would then walk around and offer the patrons and cut them straight onto your plate, it was like a never ending supply of meaty goodness! One of the beef ones was so tender it tasted like it had been in the oven on low all day, freakin awesome.

The falls form the border of three different countries: brazil, argentina and paraguay, i think we're heading off to the argentinian side today!