Iguazu Falls

We (Tony, Lesley and me) flew into Iguazu, to stay at Hotel Colonial (which is in need of some TLC) in Brazil, as it is cheaper than the Argentine side. Crossing the border is painfully slow!
That has got the negative stuff out of the way. The Falls are magnificent and are probably the best natural wonder that I have seen. My head is full of them and I cannot think of anything to compare.
It is not one waterfall but a whole series stretching in a marvellous panorama.

 The volume of water is impossible to comprehend.

The park is set up beautifully for visitors to get the best views. There are a series of walkways that get you to look safely over the torrents. The Gargantua del Diablo is amazing where water comes from different directions and pours down what seems to be hole, forming a plume of spray that we first saw from the plane.

There are high walkways, to stand just a few feet from where water is plumetting over the edge, and low walkways where you gaze up at the cascade. Sadly most of the wildlife has been driven away by the people and the narrow gauge railway that gets you around. We did see coatis, raccoon like creatures who come looking for an easy meal; many lovely butterflies and a few birds, ominously some vultures circling in the thermals above the falls.
Wherever there are falls there will be somebody with a boat to take the silly tourists for a close look - and we got totally soaked - like standing in the shower fully clothed. Then as soon as we got off the boat we had a 15min tropical storm - putting a dampener on the procedings!
Finally at just about the last view point from the Argentine side we got some great views of a rainbow, a full semicircle.
It is a wonderful place - beautiful, powerful, inspirational....has to be my favourite spot on the planet.