March 13, 2019 – March 14, 2019

When we decided that we would ship the truck back to Canada from Uruguay, we were not sure if we would have time to make it all the way to Iguazú Falls, some 4,300 kilometres north of Ushuaia, and about 1,300 kilometres north of Buenos Aires. But we were sure going to try, and WOW, are we glad that we got to see these falls, the largest waterfall system in the world.

The town of Iguazú sits at the north west corner of the province of Misiones, where the countries of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay are separated by two large river.

It had been raining for several days, and continued to rain on the day we visited the falls….so, not so great for picture taking and we were pretty soaked by the end of the day, although I think that you get pretty wet there even on blue sky days. But this also meant we were able to see the falls in high water conditions…and they were amazing. My grandmother used to joke that she didn’t see the big fuss about waterfalls…”If the water flowed up the falls, now that would be something!”, she would say. Unfortunately, she never got to see Iguazú in person, and if she had, well, I think she would have made a big fuss about these waterfalls.

The infrastructure at the falls is incredible….kilometres and kilometres of board walks, stairs and bridges take you to several different viewing points along the 2.7 kilometre wide falls. We began with a little train ride to the trailhead that took us to see Garganta del Diablo (Devil’s Throat), a long and narrow chasm where almost half of the river’s water falls.

We were visiting in shoulder season and on a weekday, but we were still overwhelmed by the number of people visiting. So, instead of waiting for the little train to take us back to the other trailheads, we walked along beside the tracks. We were rewarded with a troop of monkeys jumping from tree to tree part way along the trail.

We hiked more of the trails, never being disappointed by the views being offered up to us. It even stopped raining for a while. We covered about 13 km on the trails and boardwalks around the falls.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words….so videos must be worth way more than that, so I will let Derek’s video skills tell the rest of the story of our visit to the mighty and impressive Iguazú Falls.