Iguazu National Preserve

The flight from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu took only 90 minutes, but the destination felt so different from the big city.
We arrived at the airport and found a taxi for the twenty-minute ride to the Sheraton Hotel located on the preserve. The moment we arrived we were taken by the scenery, and as soon as we unpacked our bags, we headed outdoors.

This is a giant fig tree was one of a pair that were visible from our room. The fruit, not edible for us, was a main attraction to the capuchin monkeys.

We found this little critter perched on the railing of our balcony. Beyond him is the trail to the falls. We walked down the trail in a slight mist. All the while as we walked, we could hear the roar of the falls ahead.

This water under this first bridge we crossed didn't give us much of a clue to the amount of water we would soon see.

Soon, we found the water, brown from all the sediment it carried with it, cascading down the hill.

Iguazu Falls, comprised of more than 200 water falls, are two and a half miles of falls that border Argentina and Brazil. We were told that to really see the falls, we should go to the Brazilian side, but we were quite happy with our views.

We walked to both the lower and upper viewing points. The paths went right through the rain forest, a marvelous tangle of vegetation.

The warm, moist climate is very hospitable for orchids and bromiliads, some of which we saw in the trees.

We saw several of the falls, Adam and Eve, the Two Sisters, and the Three Musketeers among them. While the heavy mist obscured the view of the falls from the hotel, we could hear their roar inside the room, even with the windows closed.