Argentina: A Quick Stop in Palermo, Then on to Iguazu Falls

After a memorable stint in Mendoza, we swung through Buenos Aires once again before moving on to further regions of Argentina. (In Argentina, no travel is direct; everything runs through Buenos Aires.) This time around, we stayed in the quieter, chic and downright lovely section of Buenos Aires called Palermo. The highlight included an epic meat-fest of a dinner at a busy restaurant in Palermo called La Cabrera, a recommended stop of the highest order for all fellow travelers to this fair city. The lowlight, however, was saying goodbye to Sister Danielle as she headed back to - what we have been referring to as - “The Real World.”

With Cousin Nicole’s vacation still in full swing, the three of us anxiously headed northward, waaaaaaay northward, to view the Iguazu Falls, one of the world’s largest and widest water falls. (Even a candidate for the New Seven Wonders of the World.) The falls dramatically mark the boundary between Argentina and Brazil, and Paraguay is just a short ways down river, also allowing access to the falls. The Iguazy waterfall system consists of 275 falls in total, which is an epic indeed. Some of these 275 falls drop 269 feet, or 82 meters for our metric-based friends. Anyway, it’s an immensely impressive sight, so as soon as we arrived in the nearby town of Puerto Iguazu, where we would spend the next several nights, we took off to get a closer look at this legendary, natural wonder. With the temperature hovering somewhere between wicked hot and sweltering, we were also hoping this waterfall would bless us with a cooling mist.

We spent our first day at Iguazu Falls checking out Devil’s Throat, the largest of the 275 falls, which, thanks to a precariously positioned platform, we felt we were right on top of, and the Upper Circuit, a walkway that offered an up-close look at the higher regions of the falls. With much more to see in Iguazu Nactional Park, and with Rangers kicking us out in not-the-kindest Spanish we‘ve heard thus far, we saved the rest of our exploration for Day 2. Details on that and the rest of our stay in Iguazu soon.