The falls of Iguazu, March 2000

The falls of Iquazu are not very famous, but one of the most impressive falls on earth, better even than the Niagara Falls. According to Guarani legend, the falls originated when an indian warrior named Caroba, incurred the wrath of a forestgod by escaping down the river in a cano with a young girl named Naipur with whom the god had become in love. Enraged, the god caust the riverbed to collaps in front of the lovers producing a line of falls over which Naipur fell and turned into a rock. Caroba survived as a tree overlooking his fallen lover. 
In reality, in Southern Brazil, the Rio Iguazu passes over a basaltic plateau that ends just east of the confluense with the Rio Parana. Where the lavaflow stopped, at least 5000 cubic meters of water per second plunges more than 70 meters below. But words cannot explain this piece of nature, just look at the pictures below.

In Puerto Iquazu, the village where we stayed on the Argentine side of the border (Foz d'Iquazu is on the Brazilian side and Ciudad del Este on the Paraguyan side) also had its share of the Brazilian carnaval. 

And finally with so much water you have to eat fish. A local speciality is Surubi. 

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