Adventures in the Forest: We started our Iguazu adventure by paying for Iguazu Forest, a company that picks you up from your hostel and takes you ziplining, trekking through the forest and rappelling! We woke up at 7 a.m. and got inside the excursion car outside, which took us about half an hour away away to begin our activities.
The area we drove through had a montón (good amount) of wild animals, and smaller homes. It reminded me a lot of San Jose de la Zorra and the Indian Tribe there from Project Mexico last summer, except with greenery. It was a wet and muddy morning, but clear enough to see all the forestation where the Guaraní reside, as well as residents outside of Iguazú.
Our first excursion was wet rappelling, and although it's usually done against a waterfall, we did it in more of a rock-climbing sense. Here's me rappelling down the hill!
The next stop on the trail was this waterfall, big in real life, but small compared to what we would see later that day!
Stacey, Jordin and I
If it weren't for our tour guide providing us with mate,
I don't know if I would have survived the day.
The people on this adventure were from all over the place, ranging from Singapore, Brazil, Argentina, to the United States! We met Lacey and Keith, two students from the University of Texas, studying in Cordoba, Argentina for the summer (pretty far from Buenos Aires). We became friends with them and hung out the rest of the day to travel the national park!
We realized how fun it is to get to know people on such adventures because our two other favorite people on the truck were newlyweds who just moved to Uruguay. The husband had put it on his bucket list that he wanted to see all seven continents, and he DID. We told him about our trip to Uruguay and learned about the wife's family from there, and they moved back there after meeting in Hawaii and attending college in the USA. They gave us recommendations of places to travel and were really cool!
Stacey taking off to zipline!
Me ziplining! Thank you to Lacy who took this picture
from the ground!
Lacy and Keith were taking a bus to the cataratas as well, so we stopped at there hostel, which was much nicer than ours, to freshen up and prepare ourselves for what we actually went to Iguazu to see. But these excursions were a pretty fun addition to the waterfalls!
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