tours!

Our first ride was on a truck on the Yacaratia trail which goes through some amazing forest and even though we had a guide chattering away around the whole trail it didn’t distract from the forests beauty. We were pleased to hear about all of the environmental efforts being made to save the endangered wildlife and preserve the forest. It seems that environmental issues are important to the Argentines and it was also pointed out that the realisation of the importance of the forest was being learned by both Brasil and Paraguay not to mention many more South American countries. The truck ride lasted for around 40 minutes in total and it was a very peaceful introduction to the day.

The next part of our adventure was the jetboat ride! This was pure indulgence and extreme fun, thankfully with the continuous roar of the falls the jetboats

engines could not be heard which was of great relief to us both. It would have been awful to have heard the constant sound of boats whizzing around on the river but nothing could be heard over the stupendous sound of the falls. We boarded the boat and as we were donning our lifejackets we realised that we were with a tour group of mixed nationalities! There was one man in particular who was a hoot. He was an old Italian man who couldn’t speak a word of Spanish but continued in Italian due to them being extremely similar languages. He seemed to be understood by everyone and he really was the joker of the group. He was dressed in a pair of red Speedos and had his Handicam camcorder continually attached to his hand! He was told on numerous occasions that this wasn’t a very good idea but he just laughed and produced a carrier bag which he duly tied round the camcorder in the hope of keeping it dry! His fail safe plan of keeping his camcorder dry seemed to cause much amusement round the boat and his