The Devils Throat

Yes, the Devils Throat! But more about that later.

Our last day in Lima was as good as any we had in Peru, even though we visited two museums before our flight.  Sometimes

museum visits and the spectacle of a heap of old stuff, often broken and decaying in a glass fronted cupboard with signs of "Don't Touch" and "No Foto" tend to wear one down, but it was ok in Lima. Our guide understood the mental telepathy of our group and kept things moving fortunately. Peru was a great country to visit, the Spanish speaking non practising Catholic community all seemed very happy and the towns we visited were clean and safe...the economy is far better than Argentina. The people would have to be the shortest race on Earth....all half backs. A lady walked past me and must have been a little taller than my waist...she wasn't a dwarf person, just small, middle aged. Many of them are like that and I didn't see anyone as tall as me. 

We had a 5 hour flight from Lima to Iguazo National Park in Brazil and our five star "Bourbon" hotel. Free drink on arrival wasn't a bourbon at all but a lime drink that must have been 90% alcohol with a dash of lime....but we all knocked one back.

Our main reason to stop here was to visit the Iguazo Falls, reportedly the best in the World......but don't they all say that? We've seen waterfalls in every country we have been to, we had them on the farm when I was a small boy, waterfalls? just how many do you need to see in one lifetime....I'll tell ya....just ONE!. And with out a doubt (of mine) it is Iguazo Falls. Spectacular would be selling them short. We walked and photographed them from every imaginable angle. Apart from covering 5500 metres on land, walking mostly but also bussing, training and 4 wheel driving, we also traveled by boat right into one and got thoroughly soaked then took to the air for a 10 minute Eurocopter experience.....just fantastic. We got up close and personal with the Devils Throat, the Salto Belgrano and the Salto Adan y Eve and photographed everyone of them. The whole experience really was magnificent.

We saw a lot of water falling over cliffs and I did a bit of googling. This is the number 1 waterfall in the World however our Sutherland Falls in Fiordland made it to number 10 (that's according to Mr Google) Guess I will just have to go and see for myself. So a bit of catch up sleeping and washing for our small team, dinner at the "Buffalo Branco" (white bull) in town tonight then we head for Rio tomorrow with a hotel on the famous "Cocobanana Beach"......is that how you spell it?