We ended up waiting a full week in BA for my mail to arrive. It arrived at lunch time on a Monday - you can imagine how ecstatic both of us were. We decide to fly to Iguazu to make up some lost time, make the necessarily bookings and arrive in good spirits. Our hostel is fabulous (Hostel Bambu - Argentina side). We drop off our passports at the Brazilian consulate (extremely easy process from there) and see the falls from the Argentine side. Having already been before I was amazed at how different the experience can be when the falls are at their fullest - the amount of water going over the entire falls is staggering. Unfortunately the amount of spray (and visitors) means you don't get to witness the amazing wildlife as readily - butterflies where there but not in the same abundance as previously. That said, we still enjoyed the falls incredibly.
The next day, we picked up our passports with no problems at all and then made our way into Brazil. We checking into the sister hostel in the Brazilian side, stayed in the smallest room we have enjoyed to date (they gave us a discount because its so small), and checked out the Brazilian side of the falls in late afternoon. So glad we went that late - there were hardly any other tourists around - Bernard was able to take a number of great photos, despite the view being obstructed at times by the volume of spray. We went onto the walkway mouth of the devil's pools and got completely soaked (except for our cameras of course) then had to pack our wet clothes and hope they didn't smell too much by the time we got to Rio. Unfortunately, I got a gastro bug that night that completely wiped me out - I got next to no sleep - couldn't eat properly for days - and to top it all off, the hostel played loud (thumping) music until 4am, when we had a 6am wake-up call.
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