#Brazil 2018 Day 7

Iguazu Falls, Brazilian side 🇧🇷🇧🇷

After enjoying another great breakfast,

we pack our things and check out of the hotel. We can leave our suitcases at the hotel until this afternoon. Our taxi is waiting in front of the hotel and takes us to the Brazilian side of the waterfalls. The drive takes about 10 minutes. After we have gotten out of the taxi, it starts to thunderstorm and the rainforest lives up to its name. It pours down buckets and storms fiercely. Plastic chairs fly through the air.

The park doesn't open until 9 a.m. and despite the bad weather, the line is huge. The entrance fee is 62 Real per person.
Buses take us into the park. We get off at the second-to-last station and walk along the waterfall trail in pouring rain. Fortunately, Jürgen doesn't ask me today why I brought rain capes😉

It would certainly be nicer with blue sky, but even so, the path and the views from here are fantastic and completely different from the Argentine side.

You get much closer to the waterfalls on this side and you also get more water. But since we are completely drenched anyway, it doesn't matter much.
There is a walkway that leads close to the waterfalls

and an observation deck that you can reach by elevator.

 From the upper part you can see the Argentine observation deck that we stood on yesterday. 

After a bad but warming coffee, we take the bus back to the exit. The Brazilian side requires significantly less time than the Argentine side. 3 hours are more than enough, as there are no long trails here.
We will be picked up again by our funny taxi driver Jair and taken to the hotel. He will pick us up again at 3 p.m. and take us to the airport. We will pay a total of 100 Real for today's taxi service, and Jair is the best taxi buddy ever and my Facebook friend. We communicated exclusively through Google Translator and he always received the agreed amount at the end.

There are some peculiar birds again today.

On to Rio