Sitting here in an internet cafe in Iguazu, just downed an ice cold bottle of Quilmes, like most of the liquid i drank today it will probably sweat out of my body in the next two minutes. Arrived this morning at about 7.30am, i found a small campsite with basic facilities on the way to the falls, it´s about 1.5km away from the town centre which is handy. I originally planned to stay in Iguazu for about five days, but as it is i´m now at the end of day one, having walked all three of the walks on the Argentine side and i´m still sweating my bollocks off. I heard that the Brazil side of things is not as close a view, it´s more of an overall view, and you can see the stands from this side of it, there´s only about two places that stand out into the falls like they all do on this side. I was told i´d be dissapointed after having seen all the Argentine side has to offer, and if i decided to go tomorrow to Brazil it would take only a few hours, then more sweating, then another humid night in the tent before i can leave for Salta.
I decided i´m not going to visit the Brazil side of Iguazu and leave tomorrow morning for Salta on the 11am ´flechabus´. This one goes direct to Salta and takes about 24 hours, hopefully it will be like the 18 hrs it took to get from Buenos Aires to here and it won´t actually seem like that long of a ride. I didn´t want to hitch out of Misiones because it´s so humid and it looks just as hard as it would be to hitch out of Buenos Aires, i spoke to someone who has hitched around the West of the country where Salta, Cordoba, Mendoza and Bariloche are and according to his experiences it´s a hell of a lot easier around there, so i will see what Salta is like and possibly start hitching south from there. I´ve saved myself about four days by leaving Iguazu early which means more days climbing in the Andes or staying in any other town i fall in love with.
The Iguazu Falls were absolutely amazing, when you actually get to stand right next to them there are no words to describe it, you are just astonished by the amount of water that is going through there and the force of the current, you don´t just see this, you feel it.
On the walks around the various sections of the falls you go through the rainforest that is located around the falls, very dense vegetation and wild life is thriving, some monkeys were even coming close enough for humans to touch them. I am glad i decided to come this far north as i agree now with what a lot of people say about the Iguazu Falls, it´s something everyone has to experience at least once before they die, it´s just amazing.
There are more photos of today on my facebook so get on there if you want to see more, some of them came out really good, and i´ve got a couple of videos of the monkeys which i´ll upload as soon as i get some more time.Anyway that´s it for now, i´m gonna grab something to eat head back to the campsite sleep then head off to Salta in the morning. I´ll update this as soon as i can from Salta.
Santiago.
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