Iguazu Falls

Paint a picture of Niagra Falls in your mind…imagine you can hear the immense pounding of water as it falls. Imagine you can feel the mist as it sprays your skin. Imagine you can see the rainbows hovering above, shifting as the sunlight filters through the water. Now take that image and times it by about one hundred…and that ‘s Iguazu Falls. We decided to visit this ‘Niagra Falls on steroids” with our good Australian friend, Christian. After an 18 hour bus ride, we finally arrived at Iguazu, which lies on the border of Brazil and Paraguay. We checked into our sweet hostel (awesome pool!), had some dinner, and hit the hay. We spent the entire next day exploring the falls. We hiked all around, and saw lots of butterflies, tropical birds, and little raccoon like animals called ‘Coatis’. These little creatures are very brave- during lunch, one of them stole a ketchup packet right from my hand! I wasn't too happy, since it was real 'American ketchup'! Anyways, we hiked all around the falls- pretty much in awe the entire time. We also took a boat ride to the bottom of the falls, which was pretty epic. You could really feel how powerful the crashing water was…even if you couldn’t see much once you got up close, since the spray was so strong. (We joked that we could have sprayed each other in the face with a garden hose and gotten about the same experience, haha.) Anyways, the day concluded with a BBQ and poolside dance party back at our hostel. It was a pretty fantastic way to spend the weekend…and apparently Iguazu Falls is up for voting to become one of the ‘New 7 Wonders of the World’. I would definitely vote for it!