YOLO JOURNEY: IGUAZU FALLS

IGUAZU FALLS

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In 2008, there is the movie which is my favourite movie ever. The movie was released on 22 May 2008 and it grossed $311 million worlwide within its first day of release. The film is Indiana Jones and the Kingdome of the Crystal Skull that directed by Steven Spielberg and starring by the top actor like Harrrison Ford and Cate Blanchett. One of my favourite scene is at The Iguazu Falls that realy attract me to go there someday. So, for this holiday I choose to go there to make my dream come true.

Iguazu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentinian province of Misiones . The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. The river flows through Brazil even most of the falls are on the Argentina side.

The name of Iguazu are comes from the Guarani or Tupi words "y " [ɨ] , meaning "water", and "ûasú "[waˈsu] , meaning "big". The legend begin when a god planned to marry a beautiful woman named Naipi that already have a lover. The god became angry and sliced the river, creating the watertfalls and kill that lover to an enternal fall.

On 11 November 2011, Iguazu fall was announced as one of the seven winner of the New Seven Wonders of Nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. This falls was found by the European named Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541.

Argentina was monopoly by the European by 97% and only 0.2% was the Asian. The official language of this country is Spanish. So when you want to go to Iguazu Falls makesure you know the basic of Spanish to avoided to be cheated. The peso is the currency of Argentina with symbol $. The currency between Ringgit Malaysia and Peso (Mexican) is 1 Malayasian Ringgit = 4.0945 Mexican pesos.

Argentina is the free company and you freely to apply any religion but for the Islam muslim like me, of corse we need a Halal food through to survive this journey. So, my advice is to bring an instant Halal food from Malaysia like some instant noodle, bread with jem because its very hard to find a Halal restaurant nor the vegeterian restaurant at Iguanzu Falls.

For the safe journey I suggested you to used the travel guide tour. After a lot of research, I choose www.Iguassufalltour.com to be my travel guide which is highly recommended and suggested by the others tourist.

From Kuala Lumpur, I need to go to the Buenos Aires which is the capital city of Argentina to get to The Ezeiza International Airport, Argetina by the Malaysia Airlines that take the time about 20 hrs, 36 mins and the distance is 9921.3 Miles.

There are of coarse many way to get to The Iguazu Falls but I choose to start the adventure from the Argentina because coicidencly i get a promotion ticket from The Malayasia Airlines. After I land in Argentina, I’m taking the flight to the town of Puerto Iguazu from the Buenos Aires that take a time about 90 minutes. There is two airport which are The Ezeiza International Airport and The El Aeroparque who is the domestic airport. So, I have to take the taxi to make the transfer between the airports. The next step I just follow our tourist guide.

This is summary of our journey to get to The Iguazu Falls from Malaysia.

· 20.5-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur to The Ezeiza International Airport
· An hour-long taxi from Ezeiza International Airport to El Aeroparque Jorge Newbery
· 1.5-hour flight from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazú

The accommodations are either in the town of Puerto Iguazú or The Sheraton Iguazú (which is within the National Park boundary). If you're staying in Puerto Iguazú, you either need a bus or a taxi to get to the visitor center in the National Park. From there, you can take a short train ride or walk to get up to Iguazu Falls. However, if you're staying at the park at Sheraton Iguazú, you can just walk for about 15 minutes from the hotel to the falls. Sometimes moonlight tours are conducted at Iguazu Falls. Some tourist just walk to the falls and some tourist participate in moonlight tours.

At Iguazu Falls, there much more to do than walking the trails and catwalk. These activity let you experience the grand waterfalls in many other exciting ways such as:

Jet Boat Excursion – this thrilling joy ride bring us to the bottom of Iguazu Falls itself. We also visited the waterfall that have been called as Three Musketeers and the gushing Salto San Martin.

Helicopter Ride – this activity only allowed by the Brazil goverment but not for the Argentina goverment because of the environmental impact on the flora and fauna. This activity will show us the beauty of the Iguanzu Falls from a birds eye view.