Iguazu falls – the Brazilian side

Wow! We now understand the terminology “rain” forest! The rain is sooo heavy! An impressive storm, too.

10 minutes from the hotel, and we are crossing to Brazil. We had to leave our comfy minibus for passport control and felt the heavy rain and huge puddles with a soaking run back to the van.

Crossing the bridge over the Iguazu river, the Argentinian side with bollards coloured blue and white, then halfway across, with the change of countries came the change of the bollards now green and red!

The guide pointing this out…… and the move from Spanish to Portuguese, tango to samba, Messi to Pele.

Argentina and Brazil are good neighbours, with much crossing of the border.

On the left was the fuzz that is Paraguay. So glad we saw it yesterday! Everyone goes there for cheap electronics.

The bridge from Brazil to Paraguay in the photos yesterday is the new route in, hopefully due to open soon.

And so to the falls. OMG, amazing! Whilst still raining, though not so heavy, it certainly did not distract from how amazing the falls were.

The first photos are the same falls we could see from the Argentinian side.

The final far U shape is the main part of the river of which the left half is Brazilian and the right half Argentinian. With perfect timing, the clouds lifted, and by time we were down at the base view, the spray we had been warned of that would get us wet was much less than the rain had been!

Amazing to see how the swifts hanging on to the rocks. They have a large wingspan, so large they struggle to stand like most birds.

A wet bus ride back…

And we were soon at the airport, this time the Brazilian side of Iguazu. A matching small airport to yesterday.

To follow, the smallest airport lounge we had ever been in. Not sure we’ve ever had self serve on the drinks before! Mark measures it is then!

Thankfully, it also means only minutes to the gate!

Not sure we’ve ever taxi’d that fast. An hour or so, and welcome to Sao Paolo…..

A few hours more, and we came in with a full tour over London. O2, Shard, Buckingham Palace,  Wimbledon, and even spotted our car as had parked right by the landing lights!

Thanks for reading, peeps!x