It was not a smooth ending to our trip!
Our prearranged taxi did not appear at 6 P.M. however there was no problem as another taxi drove by shortly after we gave up on the first one. Our "great deal" on taxi rate with the prearranged taxi turned out to be slightly more expensive than the one we actually used. Ha ha! - live and learn I guess!
We got through United's check in with no problem,then through security and then had to complete passport control. That took quite a while however we had lots of time to kill so no problem.
We took off a little late at about 10:30 PM and then 10 hours later we were in Houston. Caro slept a good bit of the flight but as before on the way down I did not get any decent hours of sleep. I listened to many hours of podcasts.
Houston was a gong show. We arrived late and by now had only an hour and 10 minutes to get to our Air Canada flight. In our immigration entry line there were only 2 officers for the approximately 60 people a head of us. OH NO!! YIKES
Finally through that mess we were now in a serious time crunch. We got our luggage with no problem, put it on the "Connecting Passengers" baggage belt, thought we were home free to try and make our way to our next flight, but "No", there was ANOTHER security line to check our carry on (even though I'm pretty sure we were still in the secure area of the airport). Now we were in trouble. We probably had less than 15 minutes before our flight was scheduled to lift off and as luck would have it Air Canada is in a different terminal. Let the quick jogging begin! We hoofed it out from the far end of terminal C; caught the terminal transfer train to terminal A and continued hoofing it to the far end of terminal A only to discover that the gate doors had already been closed for boarding any more passengers. Damn!
I had anticipated issues with this connecting flight when I first made the reservations and really couldn't understand why it was considered a "legal" connection but wasn't too concerned as I knew there was another flight to Calgary a couple of hours later.
The Air Canada representative at the (now) closed gate door asked if we had connections and of course we did. She muttered under her breath to herself "the next flight is cancelled". At this point she entered the codes to open the boarding gate doors, went inside and found out the doors to the plane were not closed, so "bless her heart" she came back out and got us on the flight! Thank you Air Canada!
The Calgary flight was good, and the immigration was easy. We were not over our duty free limit and carried on to the Edmonton flight having noted that our bags would have transferred without us picking them up (the same as when Dad and I went to Europe and had landed initially in Toronto).
We got in to Edmonton on time but our bags didn't.
We were assured they would be right behind us on another flight but as it turned out they were not! Boo Air Canada!
My bag arrived 3 days later and as of this writing ( 5 days later) Caros' is supposed to have just arrived in Edmonton. The problem appears to be originating in Houston.
We had an awesome time on this trip, seeing many great sights, and enjoying ourselves immensely. We did a lot of walking and the totals according to my cell phone (not including any sea days while on the cruise) were 227.6 kilometres/ 350,650 steps.
Sunday, 3 February 2019
Monday, 28 January 2019
Final Day In Buenos Aires
This morning we finished off all the remaining food in the apartment and after looking over our money requirements for the day we knew we needed more Argentinian pesos.
We walked a few blocks to the huge "July 9th" avenue and walked around looking for a currency exchange . Finding one, we went inside to exchange $60 American dollars into pesos. The exchange rate at most places is 36 pesos for dollar (the actual exchange rate is 38/dollar). This place took our money,asked if we had bigger bills rather than a series of 5's and 10's and since we didn't they said they could only give us 33 pesos per dollar. Hmmmm well,OK (grumble,grumble). In order to conclude the transaction they needed ID. We showed them Caro's Alberta driving licence (nope); how about a scanned picture of my passport (nope); they asked do we have a photocopy of the passport? Really ??? Seriously-like we carry around a photocopy with us. Jeesh. We just asked for our money back and we carried on.
We know that we shouldn't really use street money exchangers but we thought to give it a try. The first one we saw we told him we had $60 US to exchange so he lead us to a money exchange kiosk and for a service charge of about $1.50 CDN we got our money exchanged with absolutely no grief. Their exchange rate....36 pesos!! Sweet!
We took the Subte (their subway) up to Plaza Italia with the idea of walking to the Rose gardens which is supposed to be extremely nice. We did a lot of walking to get to these gardens only to discover they were closed on Mondays. Nice series of parks though!
Brutally hot today.It is a topic of conversation with many people
The heat has been oppressive at times and we decided to come back to the apartment.; clean up; go for supper; then get ready for our 6 PM pick up (fingers crossed the taxi lady will show up!)
We walked a few blocks to the huge "July 9th" avenue and walked around looking for a currency exchange . Finding one, we went inside to exchange $60 American dollars into pesos. The exchange rate at most places is 36 pesos for dollar (the actual exchange rate is 38/dollar). This place took our money,asked if we had bigger bills rather than a series of 5's and 10's and since we didn't they said they could only give us 33 pesos per dollar. Hmmmm well,OK (grumble,grumble). In order to conclude the transaction they needed ID. We showed them Caro's Alberta driving licence (nope); how about a scanned picture of my passport (nope); they asked do we have a photocopy of the passport? Really ??? Seriously-like we carry around a photocopy with us. Jeesh. We just asked for our money back and we carried on.
We know that we shouldn't really use street money exchangers but we thought to give it a try. The first one we saw we told him we had $60 US to exchange so he lead us to a money exchange kiosk and for a service charge of about $1.50 CDN we got our money exchanged with absolutely no grief. Their exchange rate....36 pesos!! Sweet!
We took the Subte (their subway) up to Plaza Italia with the idea of walking to the Rose gardens which is supposed to be extremely nice. We did a lot of walking to get to these gardens only to discover they were closed on Mondays. Nice series of parks though!
Brutally hot today.It is a topic of conversation with many people
The heat has been oppressive at times and we decided to come back to the apartment.; clean up; go for supper; then get ready for our 6 PM pick up (fingers crossed the taxi lady will show up!)
Sunday, 27 January 2019
Sunday Jan 27th in Buenos Aires
Well our last full day in Buenos Aires has come to an end and as usual we had a great day.
The high temp today was 29 degrees with a humidity of 77% so it felt like 35 degrees. I am writing this at 10 PM and it is still 28 degrees which is perfect for walking in (which we did, of course).
The heat, and the continual walking has taken its' toll on us. Only 12.5 kms today and we took a long break in late afternoon to just relax in our air conditioned apartment. Caro has developed a weird blister UNDER one of her toenails which had gotten big enough to push up her toenail causing great pain. Yuck! A little needle work on the blister relieved the pressure. Weird location for a blister, I think.
OK, my plan for this morning was to catch the metro and go to the end of the line and then catch a taxi to go the next 25ish kilometres to a place called Tigre ( located in the delta of the Parana River). We walked to the Teatro Colon (Columbus Theatre-the opera house we toured several weeks ago) to get the metro. Because the metro entrance was not open, Caro (bless her heart) decided to ask a nearby tour guide about getting to Tigre. He informed us that there was a much better, and much cheaper way to do so. So....we caught a taxi and for about $10 we were taken to the train station the guide mentioned. The "train" turned out to be just like our LRT. For about $1.25 each we took a 20 kilometre train ride straight to Tigre. The taxi would have been about $40 minimum.
Tigre is a delta town where many houses have been built on the numerous islands created by the river. Incidentally the river has about the same flow as the Mississippi River so it is huge.
We took an hour plus boat ride through some of the numerous channels. Because it is summer here there were numerous boats on the canals,people swimming in the muddy water, and others enjoying their docks.
The blue dot is where our Air BNB is located and Tigre is located in the top half of the photo.
In many ways this place is like a "very" poor man's Fort Lauderdale. There are numerous canals with the difference being the cabins/houses are regular type and most people have small motor boats or use kayaks and other types of rowing boats.
After our boat ride we had a bite to eat and then walked about a kilometre to see the mansion below (there are quite a few on the mainland-just across a major canal from the places we toured earlier). The mansion is now a museum but we skipped on that.
We decided to head back early because on the earlier taxi ride we went right by the River Plate soccer stadium (the place where the soccer riots occurred that I mentioned yesterday). The taxi driver informed us that there was a game tonight. Even though it was a different team coming in to play we didn't want the grief of being near the stadium when the fans were streaming in. Our train station was extremely close and we were worried about the traffic and also taxi availability.
We got back with no issues and spent a few hours recuperating. At eight PM we went for out for supper. I wasn't very hungry but Caro wanted a good meal. We ordered a sea food dish and a bottle of wine (it is hard not to order wine when the cost is the equivalent of $6.78 for the bottle!). We had debated earlier if we should go to the soccer game at River Plate but I was concerned about getting home at a late hour. Our waiter at our supper said it was good we didn't go as we would have been hassled by the fans as we were tourists.
We watched the end of the soccer game on TV and when I went to pay the bill I asked the cashier and waiter if they were River Plate or "Boca" fans (the team I talked about yesterday). They said they liked Boca, and then they asked if I liked Boca or River Plate. I'm no fool!!! I like Boca!!!
We walked down to Teatro Colon and the streets in the area to look at the lights and were back here by 10 PM.
The high temp today was 29 degrees with a humidity of 77% so it felt like 35 degrees. I am writing this at 10 PM and it is still 28 degrees which is perfect for walking in (which we did, of course).
The heat, and the continual walking has taken its' toll on us. Only 12.5 kms today and we took a long break in late afternoon to just relax in our air conditioned apartment. Caro has developed a weird blister UNDER one of her toenails which had gotten big enough to push up her toenail causing great pain. Yuck! A little needle work on the blister relieved the pressure. Weird location for a blister, I think.
OK, my plan for this morning was to catch the metro and go to the end of the line and then catch a taxi to go the next 25ish kilometres to a place called Tigre ( located in the delta of the Parana River). We walked to the Teatro Colon (Columbus Theatre-the opera house we toured several weeks ago) to get the metro. Because the metro entrance was not open, Caro (bless her heart) decided to ask a nearby tour guide about getting to Tigre. He informed us that there was a much better, and much cheaper way to do so. So....we caught a taxi and for about $10 we were taken to the train station the guide mentioned. The "train" turned out to be just like our LRT. For about $1.25 each we took a 20 kilometre train ride straight to Tigre. The taxi would have been about $40 minimum.
Tigre is a delta town where many houses have been built on the numerous islands created by the river. Incidentally the river has about the same flow as the Mississippi River so it is huge.
We took an hour plus boat ride through some of the numerous channels. Because it is summer here there were numerous boats on the canals,people swimming in the muddy water, and others enjoying their docks.
After our boat ride we had a bite to eat and then walked about a kilometre to see the mansion below (there are quite a few on the mainland-just across a major canal from the places we toured earlier). The mansion is now a museum but we skipped on that.
We decided to head back early because on the earlier taxi ride we went right by the River Plate soccer stadium (the place where the soccer riots occurred that I mentioned yesterday). The taxi driver informed us that there was a game tonight. Even though it was a different team coming in to play we didn't want the grief of being near the stadium when the fans were streaming in. Our train station was extremely close and we were worried about the traffic and also taxi availability.
We got back with no issues and spent a few hours recuperating. At eight PM we went for out for supper. I wasn't very hungry but Caro wanted a good meal. We ordered a sea food dish and a bottle of wine (it is hard not to order wine when the cost is the equivalent of $6.78 for the bottle!). We had debated earlier if we should go to the soccer game at River Plate but I was concerned about getting home at a late hour. Our waiter at our supper said it was good we didn't go as we would have been hassled by the fans as we were tourists.
We watched the end of the soccer game on TV and when I went to pay the bill I asked the cashier and waiter if they were River Plate or "Boca" fans (the team I talked about yesterday). They said they liked Boca, and then they asked if I liked Boca or River Plate. I'm no fool!!! I like Boca!!!
We walked down to Teatro Colon and the streets in the area to look at the lights and were back here by 10 PM.
Saturday, 26 January 2019
La Boca
This morning we hopped on a city bus and went south to an large district called "La Boca" (which means "the mouth"). The much smaller area near the mouth of a river we wanted to see is called "El Caminito" and in olden days people working on nearby docks would build their houses from whatever was left over when ships unloaded and their cargo crates etc.were not needed. The area has some very unusual looking houses! Because it was a working class area it was relatively poor and when the work went away the district fell into extreme disrepair. An artist came there many years later and started a revitalisation which was tremendously successful. Now it is a vibrant, touristy, extremely colourful area which is really nice to visit (looking past the hoards of souvenir sellers of course).
The bottom photo is "the " photo to take. Many people were lining up to take one. This location is shown on many Buenos Aires tourist brochures.
There were quite a few restaurants that had singers and tango dancers performing right out on the street. Truly wonderful to listen/watch them.
We walked all the streets that were part of the colourful area and were thinking to head back up here when we went by this spot....
...which had AMAZING smells coming from the Bar B-Q located just inside a relatively small opening (originally a driveway entrance). Turns out it opened up into a large restaurant with inside and outside tables .Well we weren't hungry but we had to step inside to have some samples of their food! It was delicious. We started with a chorizo sausage (we shared) which was great,followed by a black sausage that we hated (turned out to be a type of blood sausage which I have never liked), followed again by a steak,again shared and delicious! Because it was so hot out we had a large beer as well.
Total bill was only $32 including a great tip to the waitress as she gave us great ideas on things to do, plus instructions on which bus to catch (a better one than the one we came down on).
We walked about three blocks and came to the world famous soccer stadium that is home to the Boca Juniors team. A massive stadium, with a wildly popular team, we chose not to take a tour but I did take a photo of a photo.
This team has been in the news as their championship series with River Plate (another Buenos Aires team) was marred by the fans from River Plate attacking the Boca team bus as it came to their stadium for the second leg of the championship two game series. The resulting injuries and obvious inability of the police to give protection from rabid fans eventually forced the game to be switched to Madrid Spain.
We caught the city bus back up to Plaza de Mayo and after watching some Bolivian dancers doing a dance in honour of a saint we walked around as usual making our way here. We walked over 10 kilometers again seeing many different streets , parks, etc and by the time we got back here in late afternoon we were bushed. We grabbed some delicious empanadas from a nearby takeout place (and we went back to buy more for tomorrow's breakfast).
Tomorrow is our last complete day here and we have another great adventure planned.
There were quite a few restaurants that had singers and tango dancers performing right out on the street. Truly wonderful to listen/watch them.
We walked all the streets that were part of the colourful area and were thinking to head back up here when we went by this spot....
...which had AMAZING smells coming from the Bar B-Q located just inside a relatively small opening (originally a driveway entrance). Turns out it opened up into a large restaurant with inside and outside tables .Well we weren't hungry but we had to step inside to have some samples of their food! It was delicious. We started with a chorizo sausage (we shared) which was great,followed by a black sausage that we hated (turned out to be a type of blood sausage which I have never liked), followed again by a steak,again shared and delicious! Because it was so hot out we had a large beer as well.
Total bill was only $32 including a great tip to the waitress as she gave us great ideas on things to do, plus instructions on which bus to catch (a better one than the one we came down on).
We walked about three blocks and came to the world famous soccer stadium that is home to the Boca Juniors team. A massive stadium, with a wildly popular team, we chose not to take a tour but I did take a photo of a photo.
This team has been in the news as their championship series with River Plate (another Buenos Aires team) was marred by the fans from River Plate attacking the Boca team bus as it came to their stadium for the second leg of the championship two game series. The resulting injuries and obvious inability of the police to give protection from rabid fans eventually forced the game to be switched to Madrid Spain.
We caught the city bus back up to Plaza de Mayo and after watching some Bolivian dancers doing a dance in honour of a saint we walked around as usual making our way here. We walked over 10 kilometers again seeing many different streets , parks, etc and by the time we got back here in late afternoon we were bushed. We grabbed some delicious empanadas from a nearby takeout place (and we went back to buy more for tomorrow's breakfast).
Tomorrow is our last complete day here and we have another great adventure planned.
Friday, 25 January 2019
Back to Buenos Aires
This morning we were up at about 6:30, showered and went for breakfast at 7 AM. By 7:15 we had caught a cab to the airport and were on the 9 AM Latam flight back to Buenos Aires.
We arrived at 11 AM and because we had carry on only we were out of the terminal in no time. We took a taxi to our bnb and while we were at it we made arrangements with the taxi driver to pick us up at 6 PM on Monday night for our flight back home.
Caro starting feeling the effects of a toothache a couple of days ago and we decided to get her some help. Lisa was able to book an appointment for Caro next Wednesday when we are home but in the mean time we felt we should check it out. Close to the bnb was a clinic and it didn't take us long to pay the fee ($27) for a dentist to look at her situation. He confirmed she has a cavity and gave a prescription for penicillin and anti-inflammatories. We went to a pharmacy and picked up the medicine for $15. Great deals!
We took it easy all afternoon because it was raining and later on we went for supper at the restaurant we went to the other day. Great meal again !
So I washed some clothes and caught up on blog posting while Caro watched some Netflix.
We are hoping tomorrow is a better day for Caro. We still have a least one section of the city we want to visit before we head home.
We arrived at 11 AM and because we had carry on only we were out of the terminal in no time. We took a taxi to our bnb and while we were at it we made arrangements with the taxi driver to pick us up at 6 PM on Monday night for our flight back home.
Caro starting feeling the effects of a toothache a couple of days ago and we decided to get her some help. Lisa was able to book an appointment for Caro next Wednesday when we are home but in the mean time we felt we should check it out. Close to the bnb was a clinic and it didn't take us long to pay the fee ($27) for a dentist to look at her situation. He confirmed she has a cavity and gave a prescription for penicillin and anti-inflammatories. We went to a pharmacy and picked up the medicine for $15. Great deals!
We took it easy all afternoon because it was raining and later on we went for supper at the restaurant we went to the other day. Great meal again !
So I washed some clothes and caught up on blog posting while Caro watched some Netflix.
We are hoping tomorrow is a better day for Caro. We still have a least one section of the city we want to visit before we head home.
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!
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!
Iguazu Falls Part 1
We caught the local city bus to take us to the National Park of Iguazu Falls and were there by about 8:30 AM.
Upon paying the entry fee ($25 each) we went to take a tour we booked yesterday. The tour started with a jungle trek (we sat in the back of a truck fitted with about 25 seats). We got extremely lucky on the five km drive as we stopped to watch a small troop of Capuchin monkeys cross above us in the tree canopy (a couple had babies on their backs)
Take a close look at the dead tree in the middle of the photo. Now look VERY close. The top of the tree stump is actually a nesting bird with its beak pointed in the air. The bird is camouflaged perfectly!
We got to the river and were soon in a powerful speed boat that held about 70 people. We cruised up the river going through rapids and around large rocks and not too long after we started there it was: IGUAZU Falls! OMG they are HUGE!! We took the left channel and went towards Devil's throat. About half the water in the falls goes through this section. Soon we back tracked and went up the right channel. This is where the fun begins. We were instructed to take our photos NOW and then put the cameras and anything else we needed to keep dry into the supplied water proof bag (in which we had been instructed on how to close so no water could get in).
The captain revved up the engines and started up towards the falls. Soon we were getting wet with spray and then we went into the falls. While getting soaked everybody was whopping and hollering. It was a hoot. So after we came out we went back in again. What fun! Too wet to take photos!
After that it was time to head back to our start point. The tour truck took us back the way we came in and the guide continued giving us information on the jungle.
By now it was 11 AM and we wanted to go to the Devil's Throat. In order to get there you have to take a train as it is quite a ways; technically you can walk the 5 or 6 kilometers to get there but almost nobody does, and the temperature was on its way to 34 degrees so train riding was the best option. Unfortunately everyone in the park was heading up there at the same time so we had a 90 minute wait (sigh). Upon arrival we walked out on a series of raised pathways and bridges with many of the bridges going over water that would soon be over the 275 different waterfalls here.
Devil's throat is the main waterfall and about half the water goes through this portion. You can really feel the power of the water
The photo on the left is taken to the immediate left of the photo of me.
We spent some time there and after waiting only 20-30 minutes for the train back we were soon back to the main station.
By now it was 3 PM and the park closes at 6 PM so we had to really get moving as there are two different walking circuits that are a MUST be take. To be continued......
Upon paying the entry fee ($25 each) we went to take a tour we booked yesterday. The tour started with a jungle trek (we sat in the back of a truck fitted with about 25 seats). We got extremely lucky on the five km drive as we stopped to watch a small troop of Capuchin monkeys cross above us in the tree canopy (a couple had babies on their backs)
Take a close look at the dead tree in the middle of the photo. Now look VERY close. The top of the tree stump is actually a nesting bird with its beak pointed in the air. The bird is camouflaged perfectly!
We got to the river and were soon in a powerful speed boat that held about 70 people. We cruised up the river going through rapids and around large rocks and not too long after we started there it was: IGUAZU Falls! OMG they are HUGE!! We took the left channel and went towards Devil's throat. About half the water in the falls goes through this section. Soon we back tracked and went up the right channel. This is where the fun begins. We were instructed to take our photos NOW and then put the cameras and anything else we needed to keep dry into the supplied water proof bag (in which we had been instructed on how to close so no water could get in).
The captain revved up the engines and started up towards the falls. Soon we were getting wet with spray and then we went into the falls. While getting soaked everybody was whopping and hollering. It was a hoot. So after we came out we went back in again. What fun! Too wet to take photos!
After that it was time to head back to our start point. The tour truck took us back the way we came in and the guide continued giving us information on the jungle.
By now it was 11 AM and we wanted to go to the Devil's Throat. In order to get there you have to take a train as it is quite a ways; technically you can walk the 5 or 6 kilometers to get there but almost nobody does, and the temperature was on its way to 34 degrees so train riding was the best option. Unfortunately everyone in the park was heading up there at the same time so we had a 90 minute wait (sigh). Upon arrival we walked out on a series of raised pathways and bridges with many of the bridges going over water that would soon be over the 275 different waterfalls here.
Devil's throat is the main waterfall and about half the water goes through this portion. You can really feel the power of the water
The photo on the left is taken to the immediate left of the photo of me.
We spent some time there and after waiting only 20-30 minutes for the train back we were soon back to the main station.
By now it was 3 PM and the park closes at 6 PM so we had to really get moving as there are two different walking circuits that are a MUST be take. To be continued......
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