A few weeks ago, I told you about the Iguazu Waterfalls in Brazil - the largest system of waterfalls in the world. Today I will tell you about the Iguazu National Park on the Argentine side of the border. Mostly in photos, as I have allready given some facts about the falls in my previous post. (I have left a link to that post at the end). The Iguazu Waterfall is devided between Brazil and Argentina, by the river of the same name. The river forms the border between these two countries.
The day before this visit in Argentina's national park, we had allready been to the Brazilean national park. We did it as a half day guided tour. The drawback was the pressure on time. On the Argentine side we organazied the tour by ourself. We took a taxi i the morning and arranged with the driver to pick us up in the afternnoon. This day was a full day visit. The national park covers together with the park in Brazil 250.000 hectares, but around 80% is located on the Argentine side.
There are more trails here. If you want to walk most of them you can easily spent a day here. There is a small train that will bring visiters to the two points furthest away. Our plan was to start taken the train to the top. From here we would be able to get a close up view of Devil's Throat. Because of mud slide the day before, it was closed and not possible to go there. Devil's Throat is the highest drop of the falls - 82 meters.
Just to repeat a few numbers from my previos post and to give you an idea of the size of the waterfall: «The total length of the Iguazu Falls is 2,7 kilometers with drops that vary from 60 – 82 meters in hight. I have read that there are 275 drops, but I have also read that it's believed some of them are not seperate drops, but a continuation of drops».
We took the train halfway up, got off and started to walk along The Upper Trail. Unlike the day before, there is plenty of space and no queues on the any of the paths. There were possibly the same number of people here, but we were more spread out since everyone doesn't have to walk the same path at the same time. The photos above shows the path up to the last point, San Martin Waterfall.
San Martin WaterfallJust like the Brazilian side of the river, this park has also many metal walkways to enable visitors to walk "on the water" and out to the edges of some of the falls. The waters are in many places calm, floating quitly on their way to the edge. It gives a completely different look than on the the Brazilian side. This landscape of water is spectacular.
After a lunch sitting in the shadow, we started on The Lower Trail. This path took us along the river, more or less. The vegetation is dense and we saw lot's of butterflies. My sister was very patient to wait for them to sit on her backpack or a branch nearby. Birds are also easily spottet. The park is home to wildlife like the jaguar and ocelot, but they are not easily spottet.
Now we have reached the furthest point on this trail. To the right we can look towards the walkway at San Martin's Fall and to the left we see the platform in Brazil that we stood on the day before. Amazing to see the falls from this side as well.
We end our tour back where we started, but didn't take the train. We walked on the trails through dense forrest. There are lots of flowers and trees that kept us busy stopping many times. There are many more activities to do in the park, like going on a boat trip up close to the falls. But be prepared to get soaking wet! We didn't do that, as we hadn't brought dry clothe with us. Even it's the same waterfall, it was a different experience from the day before. As you can see on the photos from both sides, the Argenting side is vast, with many more possibilities to «walk on water», enjoy flowers, trees and wildlife, like butterflies, birds and lizrds. This system of water is huge and absolutely worh a visit.
My previous post from the Brazilian side of the Iguazu Falls:The largest system of waterfalls in the wold - The Iguazu Falls (Brazil)
Please do follow if you want to keep up with my next travel story. Any upvotes or reblogs are hugely appreciated!
Latest travel stories, check out :
A walk among the sugar cane fields to a disused sugar cane factory, Mauritius
U.J
Kristiansand, Norway
All the photoes are mine, Ulla Jensen (flickr, Instagram and facebook)
[//]:# (!pinmapple -25.68297 lat -54.45413 long The Iguazu National Park (Argentina) d3scr)Latest content: Travel, Art, Article, Photo
Hiya, @choogirl here, just swinging by to let you know that this post made it into our Honourable Mentions in Daily Travel Digest #1849.
Your post has been manually curated by the @pinmapple team. If you like what we're doing, please drop by to check out all the rest of today's great posts and consider supporting other authors like yourself and us so we can keep the project going!
Become part of our travel community:
Thank you so much @choogirl🙂
Congratulations, your post has been added to Pinmapple! 🎉🥳🍍
Did you know you have your own profile map?
And every post has their own map too!
Want to have your post on the map too?
Hey @digi-me!
Actifit (@actifit) is Hive's flagship Move2Earn Project. We've been building on hive for almost 5 years now and have an active community of 7,000+ subscribers & 600+ active users.
We provide many services on top of hive, supportive to both hive and actifit vision. We've also partnered with many great projects and communities on hive.
We're looking for your vote to support actifit's growth and services on hive blockchain.
Click one of below links to view/vote on the proposal:
I have seen such waterfalls in movies but never visited them in real life. I felt very good to see such a waterfall. It is a very good sight to see the water falling inside the stones. Thank you for giving very good information about this place.
Hi @digi-me,
Great to see you posting to the TravelFeed community! We launched the #travelfeed curated tag more than 5 years ago and have been supporting the best travel blogs on Hive ever since. But did you know that TravelFeed has evolved? Based on the feedback of thousands of Hive travel bloggers we created TravelFeed.io.
TravelFeed.io brings together all the benefits of Hive decentralized blogging with features that you as a travel blogger will love: Photo galleries, Instagram embeds, custom maps, post scheduling, automated adding to Pinmapple and more. And if you want, you can even use our easy site builder to set up your own travel blog on your own domain which can be a great way to generate a passive income from your blog!
Unfortunately, focussing on developing the best platform for travelers means that we no longer curate the #travelfeed tag and the TravelFeed Hive community. But, you can log in with your Hive account on TravelFeed.io to publish your next travel post, and it will be posted to Hive automatically! Every day, we select the best posts and reward them with an upvote and added visibility.
We would love to see you on TravelFeed.io soon :)