lunes, marzo 31, 2008

Iguazu!!

Hello again!!

I am in El Calafate the getaway town to El Perito Moreno Glacier, we arrived yesterday after a 2 days trip to El Chalten, a very small village were we were doing some amazing trekking that I will try to tell you in further posts.
Today we have done the Glacier tour and all I can say is that it is asthonishing, incredible, no words to describe it... but it will be part of another post, hopefully with videos!

Well the title today is Iguazu, and I will try to tell you what we lived there and to describe the waterfalls.

Francois, me and our travel mate for this adventure (Jas) arrived at Iguazu last wednesday, the first image we got from the waterfalls were from the plane, it is so beautiful to see the falls from the air, the day was clear and you would never imagine that the falls are so big and that they cover so many land.

I have to say that we were very lucky as in the airport we met "the man". Gustavo was the guy who took us to the hotel on his car but also offer himself to be our private advisor all over the trip, so with him Francois and me went to the Brasilian side of the falls in the evening (Jas didn´t have the visa, so we sent her to do some sport activities on the river).

The Brasilian side is more about the panoramic view, the big waterfalls are on the Argentinian side but from the brasilian you have more distance and you are able to see how big they are. The tour took us around 4 hours and Gustavo was sharply waiting for us at the exit.

The rest of the night we didn´t do much, eat at the hotel and have some beers and wine, there is a story about a PJ fight that I will deny at every level....

On thursday was the big day, Gustavo took us to the Argentinian side, he recommended us an excursion where we were on a 4x4 truck in the forest, then we took a fastboat on the river over the rapids and with the boat we went literally down 2 of the waterfalls.
It is amazing how fast the water falls and how cold it is, we were totally wet but as the day was amazing it was a pleasure and a lot of fun, you will see the pics.

After the shower, we did some trekking over the national park, following the different falls and having some increible views that will take out your breath. It is like you never get bored of seeing the water falling!!

The end of the tour was the best part, we went to La Garganta del Diablo, that is the upper part of the falls and were you see several streams collapsing into the river Iguazu, the steams that the falls create when hitting the river doesnt let you see the end of the cliff and the rainbows it makes is amazing, I really recommend everyone to come here and see it. I have some videos and I will edit this post so you can judge by yourselves!!

Then we were out dinning to a really nice restaurant and to rest as the next day Francois and me were leaving to Patagonia and we wanted to advance our flight as were were afraid of missing the connection, here is where "the man" continues acting...

Gustavo manages to get the manager of the flight company and without doing the 1hour waiting line we got our flight changed (Jas had to stay there as she didnt get a connection). He saved our live as our original flight was delayed, so we had to stay in B.Aires and all the plans we made in Patagonia would have been almost cancelled!!!
There I realized who important is to have connections everywhere.


I hope I didn´t bother you too much but I promise some pics, soon.

I am leaving to B.Aires in a couple of hours, in the agenda, we will go to the countryside to do some horseriding and some fiesta at night!!!

besos a todos