To the devil's throat

Avoiding a 22 hour bus ride we buy a flight to Iguazu falls. More precisley Puerto Iguazu, the cool jungle-ish town on the Argentinean side of the falls. If you haven't heard of Iguazu then you should. They're some of the biggest waterfalls in the world and have somewhere in the region of 272 falls within one area.
Landing here is a sharp contrast from Buenos Aires. It's a laid back tropical town and is very humid. Our hostel, run by a punk rocking Argie/Brasilian, is beyond cool. Hammocks in the jungle garden out the back with homebaked chocolate cake and bread for breakfast.
The Iguazu Falls are within a huge national park outside of town. The border between Brazil and Argentina is actually somewhere in the water near the falls and you can cross to Brazil to view the falls over a nearby bridge, we didn't have the time. The Argentina side allows you to get right up close to the huge falls via boardwalks across vast rivers. It's amazing. You walk right up to the edge of most falls, the Gargantua del Diablo, aka the 'Devils throat', is the most impressive. A huge volume of water piles down here and falls all around dropping from lush green cliffs. It's loud, very loud. And you get soaked, just what you want in the baking heat, but it doesn't take long to dry out.
This has to be another one of those must-see places in the world and seeing it through Argentina seems much better than the more expensive and more run down Brasilian side.
It's difficult to describe the whole thing as it's massive. I'll have to get some photos on here when I get on a decent pc. One thing I do remember is the constant rainbows from the vast amount of spray covering the whole area. It's a hell of a sight, and sound.
That night we went out to another typical Argentinean grill for some great steak with a woman from Israel. As it turns out Israelies love coming to South America because it's soo cheap. They're also big fans of Eastenders and Keeping up appearences. Odd.
After a couple of hours of trying to be persuaded to visit Israel we head back to our jungle hostel. Besides, tomorrow we have an almighty 24 hour bus journey to Rio de Janeiro!
This also means the end of Argentina for us. For me this is one of the best countries we've visited so far. It's friendly, cheap, easy to get around, has amazing food and drink and is incredibly diverse. It's also well set up, has great cities and huge national parks. I'd just come on holiday here for a couple of months. One day I will.