It's a duck's world!: There is no water in the waterfalls!!!!

Before we got to the waterfalls we had another busride to manage.. it was an overnight one and for the first 3 hours we had some company from a guy called Nicolas. He only spoke spanish ..well a little bit english as well but that didn't help much so Miri had to talk the whole time in spanish. It was quite funny how they tried to explain things to each other and sometimes it just didn't make sense ;-)

The earth was so red! And people seem to live in the middle of nowhere. There are no tarred streets except for the one we were on...

The night was not as comfortable as it could have been but we got over it and checked into the hostel. There we met Adelie from England and because it was only 2 o'clock we decided to take a look at the waterfalls. Everybody always talks about it and it is the only reason people come to this little town called Puerto de Iguazú. But people also told us that there is no water in the falls because it hasn't been raining for quite some time.. so we had no idea what to expect but this is what we found:

Water!!!

I can't tell weather this is much or not (probably not from other pictures I saw) but it was a massive amount!

It was so beautiful! There were thousands of little waterfalls coming down.

There are supposed to be 270 Waterfalls in this place over 2.7 km long!! I really have no clue how they counted those waterfalls but.. there are a lot! It is such a huge place and there is also a track that leads you directly underneath.. well not quite but close^^ to the waterfalls and you get soaking wet when you stand there for some minutes!

A coatí.. they were everywhere! Later in the day we saw some more on the other side of a fence.. a woman next to us thought they were so cute and wanted to give them some food. All the sudden there were about 10 coatís jumping over the fance! I have no clue where they came from but it looked like a wave! And the woman and her friends ran for their lifes! It was hulerious! ;-)

The next day Adelie left us and we went to the brazilian side to get a nice overview of the waterfalls. Yes, we went to Brazil for the day! We were so stoked about it but then we found out that we don't get a stamp in our passports :-( we just left Argentina for some hours and then entered again. ..so does that mean we were in no country for the time in between??? That's not fair!

An overview of one part of the "Cataratas" (waterfalls) from the brazilian side

A little firend along the way ;-)

Miri, me and the waterfalls! We were there!! Yeah!

Enjoy:

Jusdt when we were about to leave the park we met some people we had seen the day before on the argentinian side. ..in the end we went with them to the biggest dam in the world, called Itaipú.