Iguazu Falls of Argentina

The Iguazu Falls are wonderful earthy and poetic. The Argentine side, the visitor enters into a roaring waterfall and turned out after a baptism of sounds and jungle. There is a monument to Nunez at the confluence of the rivers that feed the falls, but the monuments itself are cataracts. They are so powerful that they are now more than politics: coexistence of three boundaries, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, but they are an entire country, «the country of the Falls».

Those who see them from the Argentine side have the ability to discover, physically, the emotion that must have felt the first settlers, Alvar and those who followed him. At the height, the falls that we see on the Argentine side are a splendid monster, whose noise is deafening as the sound of the sea on land. As if an engine was unforgettable and enduring ringing to awaken the god of beauty.

Frightening to think in dry periods, cannot believe that this marvel is now sound and water, waterfalls endless, repetitive and powerful, stand still and dry, which in those canyons that cinema immortalized many times (The mission was here it seems that the music of Ennio Morricone is to compete with the overwhelming proximity of the sea snore land) and no water, but grass unsuccessful. As has happened, and that past is now watching them fall without pause, as the image of a nightmare.

Before entering this vision that seems the revelation of the water, one wanders into Falls through main roads of red earth, when we had been a storm and the air was stirred. That look still calls the atmosphere of the tales of Horacio Quiroga, the great writer who lived alone near these cliffs. But when you get to them, do not require cataract literature is in itself a powerful sound poem by Pablo Neruda, a residence in the sea on land.

On the trip are with you 460 species of birds, frightened by the storm dormant, but there are still, upright, palmettos, agitated at times by the fleeting presence, and dangerous, pumas. When they clear the jungle and the sound is coming more and more water impermeable, we see increases in the sense that this torrent is pure speed. In the Argentine side, which is what I recommend, because it reconciles with the ancestor of land and water, with the marriage that gives him the nature, the stream looks like a place in itself, there can understand the infinite surprise, and joy scared of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.

The extraordinary thing is that this vision remains intact, and tourism, although there are more hotels (many under construction) than accept if nature had a voice, lets you live, is well led and behaves very civilized, in addition, place has sites where you can eat well.

But that is not important or travel or vision. What is surprising is that a beauty so wild is still wild, or continues to appear. There is a boat trip you closer to the very end of the ravine, and down there who actually feel you are in touch with what came first, the thrill of water, that extraordinary baptism you go with the feeling that nature you just born.

The water is not everything, to be by far more changing table and also the most durable, in the way you see huge rocks that seem prehistoric, and even preternaturally, colors that recall the paintings by Rothko or Pollock. So you are surfing through a series of symphonies to the music of the sea puts unusual counterpoint to a mental adventure, unusual, and that it always seems to do alone, although some sound millions of birds not get to see.

Data for the traveler:

The guides speak a lot of butterflies, as in Macondo you imagine, but the butterflies the men drive away and buses, when they appear, as if they do go unnoticed and are beautiful in its brevity robust color, almost sensual.

Iguazu Port, is a place where anything could happen, because his face would resemble a lawless place. But it’s really a quiet place where people still live with the keys in the doors. And when I hear or the sound of the most powerful waterfall in the world, a melancholy feel that your side, which is always after living in the belly of the beauty.

Iguazu National Park, located 18 kilometers from Puerto Iguazu in Misiones department opens its doors to tourists. (The entrance fee is 11 euros).

Bon voyage!