The hotel looked fancier on the outside than in.
This was apparently the upgrade. haha. It wasn't really a problem except we spent an hour trying to get the AC to work. We called the front desk and they replaced the batteries on the remote. We waited another half hour and it was unbearable so just before midnight they let us switch rooms.
There wasn't much near the hotel so we ate there. Guarana is like the coke of Brazil or the Inka Kola of Peru. My caesar salad was pretty much an entire head of iceberg lettuce but was good.
Nov 7, 2019
Yesterday was more amazing than I could have imagined. It started with us having Brazilian cheese bread and cake for breakfast and then checking out of our least favorite hotel. We checked our luggage in the lobby and walked to the National park entrance 5 minutes down the street.
It was raining a bit and there was a lot of kids and people waiting in line but nothing took too long. Before we knew it we were sitting on the top of a two level bus driving through the jungle. There we had our first glimpse of the Coatis up in one tree that wander the park. It had been storming early that morning and then sprinkling as we walked to the park but by the time we got off the bus it had stopped completely.
This is a fancy historic hotel that's the only one on the brazilian side of the park and it was on the other side of where the bus let off.
We got off the bus and walked a short way to the first views of the falls! Honestly I was in awe of the sight but had no idea more was to come!
What is hard to see is that the falls are more of a kind of cane shape that curve around at the top and what we saw above was the strait tail end. In other words at the top it falls on both sides of the gorge and then down one side. Its crazy how wide the river is before it drops over the falls. 80% of the falls are on the Argentina side with the rest on the Brazilian side of the river. Here is a satellite image because I like to see how things look better than trying to explain them.
As we followed the trail back into the jungle we continued to see more beautiful shots of the falls and ran into some wildlife on the way too (coati and tarantula).
At the end of the trail it walks out in front of the end section of falls to see the curved hook where the majority of the water falls. In the middle of the picture below you can see part of what they call the “devil’s throat“ and the biggest of all the falls.
You walk out next to some of the falls and that’s where we got the most wet but no more than a bit of mist unless its windy. You can see below the walkway that goes out past part of the falls. From there you can see the beginning of the falls from all sides. That’s also where I took my favorite picture!
I love the green of the jungle in contrast to the water. Below is my favorite picture! I took that!
From the viewing point Logan said we could see the hotel we were staying in the next night, the Grand Meliá. From afar it didn’t look very grand at all but he assured me it was the nicest place we would stay on this trip. Remember Logan planned and booked this whole vacation for me so everything has been a fun surprise!
After walking back we followed the walkway back up to the top for a few last views on the Brazilian side.
After this we grabbed our bags back at the hotel and got a taxi to cross the Argentinian border. That was super easy. We walked into one building to get our passports stamped to leave Brazil and then to go through the Argentine border control we just sat in the car as they stamped our passports again. On our way through we saw Paraguay on the other side of the river where the three countries meet.
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