Iguazu fever

This post is a bit old now, but I thought I should put it up anyway...

Well I´ve had enough of Buenos Aires and studying the local lingo, and have hit the road again - this time heading north towards Bolivia, Peru and the Amazon basin. But for now I´m in Salta, a pretty happening town in Northwest Argentina, with lots of nice colonial buildings etc and an unbelievable amount of very sexy women. Like the rest of Argentina...

Actually, this is important. Argentinians are an extremely proud and patriotic bunch - there are flags everywhere, derogatory jokes about the English\Chileans\Uruguayans\etc abound, framed photos of Diego Maradona hang off way too many walls, and there are countless other examples of how proud the locals are of their own country - and deservedly so, I should say (just don´t mention the economy). However, there are two things that they seem most proud of - that's their top quality beef, and their fantastic looking ladies. Every taxi driver I´ve spoken to (and that's a lot of taxi drivers now!), without exception, has asked me with a sly grin on his face, ¿So, what do you think of the Chicas in Argentina, hey?, ¿Muy bien,no? and I´ve got to admit they are very nice...

And the Beef is very good too - check this 1 inch thick monster that cost only 18 pesos (about $7 Australian....)






Anyhoot, I stopped off at Puerto Iguazu a while ago. Iguazu is famous for these very impressive waterfalls they have here - some say they are the most visually spectacular waterfalls in the world. Though as I mentioned, the locals are a very proud bunch.... In any case, they are on par with Niagra Falls and Victoria Falls in Africa in terms of water volume and height, but spread out over a long distance. I thought they were pretty speccy, despite the hoards of other snap-happy tourists. I´ll leave the gushing to the falls and the photos though, I´m sure they´ll be more convincing than my words....

This section is known as Guadar Del Diablo (The Throat of the Devil)¨... not hard to see why.



























While the waterfalls were great, one thing I didn´t expect was to see so much interesting wildlife - this was the first time I´d been anywhere near a tropical rainforest, and the variety and colour of the birds, buttlerflys and little bugs etc was pretty cool. Also there were a few monkeys, and alligator things... plus wild Giunea Pigs! Ferocious beasts Guinea Pigs.....