Sunday, September 18, 2016
This morning we made arranged to join two other travelers and hired a van to take us across the border to Argentina to see the other side of Iguazu Falls. It turned out to be a good idea because we had to make three stops.
The first stop was to exchange money into Argentinian Pesos. Then we stopped at the border to leave Brazil and another official stop to enter Argentina. The van dropped us off at the National Park ticket office and Linda, our new friend Katie, and I followed several paths through the dense tropical forest.
Yesterday, we had viewed Iguazu Falls from a panoramic distance on the Brazilian side. Here on the Argentinian side, we were closer to the falls because we were above and next to the magnificent crashing waters.
There were many birds in the trees, but difficult to photograph. I took one picture of a large toucan.
Katie and a South American ring-tailed coati, also known as quati in Portuguese:
A friendly young family on vacation from Brasilia, the capital of Brazil stopped to talk to us. They spoke fluent English. They said they loved to travel and this was baby Elena’s first trip away from home.
