Cataratas del Iguazú – Argentina

I honestly think I am still in a state of awe after the seeing the waterfalls on the Argentina side. No offense to Brazil, but the view of the falls from the next door neighbor is much more amazing.
We had been told that the Argentina side was better, but we didn’t have enough time on our last trip to head over there and take a look. It is a completely different experience and a much better one in my opinion. While the Brazil side is great, especially the first time you see it, if I only had time to do one, Argentina would be it.

The park is completely different. You walk into an open area with lots of permanent buildings which house snack shops and gift shops. From there you have so many options of how you see the waterfalls.

You can do a short hike or take a train. You can view the falls from upper and lower decks and even take the stairs down to the very bottom at the river bed and use the ferry to get over to a smaller island for a closer view. We did a combination of everything, except for the ferry. It looked a bit wet and appeared to take a little more energy than we had left to exert.

What we soon realized is that all the smaller waterfalls we were seeing from the Brazil side were right in our faces on the Argentina side. They were beautiful! You could get so close to seeing them. The overlooks seemed to almost hang out over the edge where the water fell and it was good for some amazing, but sometimes unnerving views.

The most unbelievable thing was seeing Devil’s Throat from the Argentina side. We took the train for about 10 minutes and then set out walking on an elevated pathway all the way to a point that was almost in the middle of the river.

Everything is so peaceful and quiet as you walk, except for the several hundred other people moving along with you. As you approach the falls what begins as a quiet rumble grows to an amazing roar. The trail ends right at where the water tumbles over the falls creating a powerful scene that I will never forget.

The pathway is almost suspended at the edge and all you can see is the vast amount of water tumbling down. It was easy to get lost in the scene which, while incredibly loud, created this odd feeling of peacefulness. As long as I kept my thoughts from running away from me with worries of falling over, I could have stood there all day just staring at it.

When looking back down the river to the Brazil lookout point, it was pretty unbelievable how far away it actually was. On the Argentina side you are right on top of the water.

All of these pictures can’t do it justice. For me it was one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in my travels thus far.