Photos 2013: Iguazú, Argentina

We made a 21-hour bus journey to Iguazú in the north-east of Argentina to see
one of the world's most spectacular sets of waterfalls

Road sign giving distances to San Francisco and Santa Fé

We're just passing San Francisco on our way to Santa Fé... these are common place names in Latin America

A farm building in an open landscape in evening sunshine

Evening falls over the wide, open landscape of central Argentina

Miriam leans back in a reclining seat on the bus

Rollin', rollin', rollin'... Miriam makes herself comfortable on the bus.
The seats recline and the footrests fold up to make comfortable beds

A street vendor

We woke up next morning in a different, more tropical landscape.
The ethnic mix is different in the north of the country too, with more Amerindian people here

A hotel centred on a swimming pool

We stayed just 2 nights in Puerto Iguazú. This is the view from our hotel room balcony -
rather self-indulgent by our standards

A river confluence

Tres Fronteras, at the western end of Puerto Iguazú:
Paraguay lies to the west of the Paraná (flowing top to left in the picture)
while Brazil is on the far side of the Iguazú. Argentines make day trips to Paraguay to go shopping
and tourists go across to view the Iguazú Falls from the Brazilian side

Water flows over a nearby fall, while more falls stretch into the distance

This is what we really came to see: at the Iguazú Falls,
water cascades with thunderous noise from here into the distance

A waterfall generates huge amounts of spray

Salto San Martín is one of the most dramatic of the falls.
It produces huge and ever-shifting bursts of spray

A wider view over a section of the falls

The falls extend to over 2 kilometres in width

A group of coatis

Coatis roam the park looking for scraps of food from tourists.
They are quite vicious and visitors are encouraged not to feed them


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