Round the world with Michaela and Tom

The day is nearly here...19th October 2010 and we are going to be heading off on our travels round the world!! It seems like we have been saving and planning forever and the day is finally getting close.

We start of in S.America (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay) then head to Australia, South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam) then China, Japan and India wohoooooooooooo!!!!

We are going to try and keep a blog of stuff we get up to and pics off course - we will see how internet access goes and how much time we get to write on it!!

YOU CAN CLICK ON EACH PICTURE TO MAKE IT BIGGER AND YOU CAN COMMENT BELOW EACH POST - A FEW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING!!





Thursday, 7 April 2011

The Legend of the Falls - Iguassu

Brazilian Name: Iguassu or Iguaçu
Argentinian Name: Iguazú
Paraguayan Name: Yguazú

We arrived there in style on a “Super Cama” bus which we had heard was supposed to be the way to travel in Argentina (and way cheaper than the flight) and it was!!! It was an overnight journey and took 18hrs but we had fully reclinable seats, personal TV’s, decent food, lots of wine with dinner and Champagne to send you off to sleep!!! Somedays the backpackers life is not too bad!!!

Fascinating Facts & Figures about the Fabulousy Fantastic Falls (go on say it FASTER!!)


  • 275 Waterfalls with one even named after Tom's Mum - Eva!!
  • Falling in Argentina and Brazil (Paraguay built a HydroDam so stopped their share of the Falls but supplied 80% of the countries electricity needs)
  • Up to 82m High and 2.7km Long!!
  • 1746 m3/sec flowing over the falls!!
  • Mist rises up to 150 m from the Devil's Throat, Iguassu's biggest fall!!
  • Boat trip into the Devil's Throat a must if you ever go there...
  • Look out for the No88 butterfly and you'll be mobbed by the hungry Coaties (little animal that looks like a Racoon)







 
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