Iguazu Falls Part Two

The first trail we did was the upper trail.

As we started this we were walking quite quickly as both trails are quite long and time was running short.

Our first view of the falls from this angle was OVERWHELMING. It takes your breath away to something so magnificent,.We walked along, passing over channels that soon became part of the falls; and over the waterfall that has soaked us earlier in the day. There were simply too many photo opportunities. I have included a few below but I really don't think they do the majesty of this place justice.

In the middle photo (at the top of the photo) you can see the tops of the waterfalls near Devil's Throat. The bottom photo shows the falls section we went into  (in the middle of the photo beyond the rock that looks like the head of a bird)

Having completed the upper walk we hurried to the lower walk. Initially I was thinking this one wouldn't be as nice when I looked at our tourist map. WRONG-it was just as great.

We lucked out and saw (and videoed) a boat from our tour company heading into the falls. We could hear the same whopping and hollering as when we were on the tour!

There was a spot where the walkway went into the spray of one of the falls. It was extremely refreshing and cooled me down. I knew I had a headache coming on from the heat so that spray on my head cooled me right down. I was OK after that.

This above photo is a panorama shot I took

This is the falls where we cooled off in the spray

This photo shows the tour boat about to go into the falls. The place they go in is the section of falls that is partially obscured by the skinny tree on the right side of the photo.

We managed to complete everything by 5:30 and at 6 we were on the bus back to town (about 30 minutes away). According to my cellphone we walked 15.4 kilometres, completed 41 flights of stairs and did 22,591 steps.

After showers and a change of clothes we went out to celebrate my birthday. We had a great meal with some wine and  after our meal suddenly the lights went out which we thought was because of the heavy rain storm. Nope-we had mentioned it was my birthday at the beginning of the meal and the restaurant staff came out to sing "happy birthday" to me and the patrons in the place also clapped. Very nice and unexpected. A nice tip was given!

A truly unforgettable day!