Day 9 - Seeing the falls

Today we got up nice and early, went and had breakfast and then arranged a set of tours for the day. We opted for the full package which consisted of; a boat trip around the falls in a speedboat, a train ride through the jungle and a four by four trip. Firstly we took a train ride to a walkway that led across the river to a viewing point of the largest section of the falls called the 'Devils Throat'. This was an amazing set of waterfalls to see, and was surprised to see the amount of water going over and the noise and mist that's created by this. We both got drenched by the mist whilst viewing the falls. Good job Adrian invested in a water proof camera!

On the walk back we encountered several species of butterfly, there seemed to be butterfly's everywhere. We also saw lots of brightly coloured birds and an alligator in the water. Once we had completed the walkway we decided to go for a change of scenery and got the boat back instead of the train. During the boat trip we encountered more alligator's and were lucky to see a toucan close up. Toucans look very strange up close, they look plastic and spray painted, and just don't look real, but are beautiful birds nonetheless.


After a spot of lunch we headed off to the speedboat tour of the falls. This began with a four by four trip through the jungle were we saw one animal of which we cannot remember the name! We then got geared up in our life jackets ready for the speed boat.

Before we set off we were given a large plastic bag to put our belongings in to keep dry. We then realised we were about to get very wet. The boat ride was excellent fun, going very close to some of the falls, and going over the rapids at high speeds. We had some great photo opportunities, before the boat was driven completely under one of he falls!! this was a bit of a shock to everyone and very cold but we enjoyed it so much we are going back to do it again tomorrow. This time though we will take a change of clothes with us to put in the plastic bag.

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