Advance warning: no sex in this segment.

On Thursday, I landed in SP after a 15 hours flight. Connection service was poor, but four hours were enough time. 100 minutes later I was in Foz do Iguacu.

I’ve to date visited around 35 countries around the globe, following my mother’s rule not to go to a place twice before visiting “every place” once. But there are – or should be – exceptions to every rule (including this one), and I have a short list of places I’d gladly visit again. Iguacu is at the top. I’ve been here ten years ago, but ‘only’ on the Argentinian side.

In order to have direct and unfettered access to the falls, I decided to splurge and stay at the Sheraton in the Argentinian side of the NP. (The Das Cataratas hotel on the Brazilian side is more expensive and has too many bad reviews on TripAdvisor.) It was well worth it. I visited and revisited the falls from all angles on both sides, enjoying every minute of it.

I love waterfalls: the water, the movement, the raw power, the purity, the mist, the changing scene; truly nature sculpting better than any human can. To top it all, Iguacu has a huge advantage on its bigger competitors – Niagra and Victoria. They might be taller, or broader or ‘volumer’, but color-wise they’re boring: white and gray and perhaps pale-blue verus Iguacu’s rich and strong and abundant green, in the background and at the midst. There are also at least three places to get up close and personal, to enjoy the spray and the shower and the power. No wonder it was voted into the new list of the Seven Wonders of the World!

Sounds like a great start of an adventure. Thanks for sharing it with us. I hadn't appreciated the green color of the waterfall before. I look forward to future reports.