Chapter 896 Fly for two hours first
After leaving the Basque trolley sculpture, the convoy took a few minutes to arrive at the "Seeing the Three Kingdoms" observation deck at the westernmost end of the Iguazu Avenue.
Most countries in South America like to use a certain river as a border line. The Parana River and the Iguazu River are two of the more famous boundary rivers.
The Iguazu River flowing from east to west finally merged into the north-south Parana River, and formed a huge horizontal "T" shape here. The north-south Parana River is the horizontal line of the T, and the east-west Iguazu River is the vertical line.
What kind of scenery will be formed when the two boundary rivers meet here? It’s very simple, that is, the borders of the three countries meet here!
Paraguay to the east of the Parana River, west of the Parana River, Brazil to the north of the Iguazu River, and Argentina to the south of the Iguazu River.
Therefore, the people of Port Iguazu built a huge viewing platform at the intersection of the two rivers, where you can see three different countries at a glance.
In fact, there are many places where the three countries meet in the world, and there are even places where the four countries meet, such as Zambia, Namibia, Botswana in Africa and Kazungula, the small city where the four countries meet in Zimbabwe meet.
However, the "Seeing the Three Kingdoms at a glance" observation deck in Port Iguazu is quite famous.
On this observation deck is a three-country flag monument, with Argentina's flag in the middle, Paraguay's flag on the left, and Brazil's flag on the right.
In fact, on the other side of the Iguazu River, there is also a similar observation deck of "Looking at Three Kingdoms at a glance", but it is to enjoy the views of the three countries from the Brazilian side.
After staying here for about half an hour, everyone found a restaurant in Puerto Iguazu to prepare for lunch, and then after lunch, they prepared to leave for the Great Iguazu Falls.
It takes nearly twenty kilometers to get from Puerto Iguazu to the Great Iguazu Falls. Including the time to leave the city, the convoy arrived at the Iguazu National Park Visitor Centre in about an hour later.
There are two huge parking lots here, with dozens of buses parked on one side and many private cars parked on the other side. Yang Jing and his convoy naturally have to park here.
Private cars and tourist buses can only reach here. If you want to move into the park, you have to take the unique small train in the AD.
I took a small train and soon arrived in front of the Iguazu Falls.
This waterfall covers a wide range, so it is not that easy to get a glimpse of the whole picture.
At this time, the flood season has entered the abundance period, so the flow of the waterfall is very large. The group of waterfalls that "forked" during the dry season have almost all been connected together at this time, forming the most spectacular Iguazu Falls.
The roaring Iguazu River turns a horseshoe-shaped bend here, and then the river water falls into a river channel more than 70 meters deep, forming a series of waterfalls. During the flood season, the Iguazu Waterfall will be connected to form a huge waterfall of four kilometers wide.
Yang Jing and the others came to admire the waterfall on the Argentina side. Here you can appreciate the devil's throat up close. A hundreds of meters long pier extends directly below the devil's throat. Visitors can completely feel the shock of the waterfall when they stand on the bridge.
The Devil's throat is the most magnificent section of the Iguazu Falls. It is different from the waterfall in Brazil. The Devil's throat on this side of Argentina is a river that directly falls into a river channel more than 80 meters deep, forming the most spectacular Devil's throat in the Iguazu Falls group.
Local Indians believed that there was a devil living behind this waterfall, so it was called the Devil's throat.
Appreciating the devil's throat up close, the shock is even more shocking than the flood discharge at the Itap Hydropower Station that I saw yesterday. During the flood season, the flow of this waterfall exceeded 12,000 cubic meters per second, which is far from comparable to the flood discharge gate of the Itap Hydropower Station.
The huge water curtain fell from the cliff more than 80 meters high, making a roar like thunder, and the splashed water mist could rise to a height of hundreds of meters, forming a thick mist above the waterfall.
Yang Jing and his group were shocked by this spectacular scenery. If you don’t feel it from close range, you will not understand how strong this shock is.
Yang Jing claimed that he had become knowledgeable, but today he still felt his insignificance in the face of such a miracle of nature.
In Brazil opposite the Devil's throat, a vertical elevator was built against a cliff. This elevator was the Devil's throat lift. On the observation deck on the top of the lift, you can clearly see the Devil's throat on the Brazilian side. However, the effect is far less effective than enjoying the Devil's throat up close on the trestle on the Argentina side.
After staying at the Devil's throat for about half an hour, everyone's clothes were wet with water mist. Only then did Yang Jing and the others leave here reluctantly.
After seeing the spectacular devil's throat, you still need to see the second floor of the waterfall.
The most spectacular section of the Iguazu Falls is the devil's throat, but the second-floor waterfall on the Brazilian side is also very beautiful.
The river channel here is divided into two layers, like steps. The rolling water of the Iguazu River falls from the first layer of the river for more than 30 meters and falls into the second layer of the river. Then flows forward for more than 100 meters, and finally falls into the last layer of the river, forming a spectacular second-layer waterfall here.
At this time, in the waterfall at the bottom, there were several speedboats carrying dozens of people, playing "surfing the waterfall"!
The so-called waterfall refers to the tourists sitting on the assault boat, and then the driver is driving the waterfall at close range in the charge. From a distance, this behavior is like hitting the waterfall, so it is called waterfall.
But in fact, it is absolutely impossible for the assault boat to truly impact the waterfall. With the flow of the Iguazu Falls, let alone a small assault boat, even if a destroyer comes, it will probably be directly destroyed by the waterfall in minutes.
So this kind of activity is actually to allow tourists to get close to the waterfall.
There are similar activities in Niagara Falls in North America, which are very popular among tourists.
"Do you want to rush there too?" Yang Jing hugged the wet princess and asked in a low voice in her ear.
"Well... it's not, it looks so scary. If the assault boat really rushes into the waterfall, it won't be overturned in an instant."
Comrade Xiao Wang on the side said, "Sister-in-law, if you don't go to the waterfall, you can take a helicopter to enjoy the waterfall from a high altitude. There are tourist helicopters in Brazil, and there are also helicopters in Argentina."
"Ride in a helicopter?" Princess seemed to be moved.
Xiao Wang said: "It is indeed a different feeling to take this helicopter to enjoy the scenery at high altitude, but the price is a bit expensive. A six-seat helicopter costs $180 for ten minutes, and a half hour of flight costs $500 for five hours!"
Chapter completed!