Fotos:
1- Us in front of our hotel. Wonderful place to stay.
2- The View from our hotel room window.
3- Panorama of part of the falls.
4- Cheryl at one lookout
5- Cheryl also….
more fotos to follow…….
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Greetings to this special edition of the Cranney newsletter.
We arrived home late last night after driving all the way to
Horqueta from Iguazu Falls, Brasil. We spent Thursday afternoon and
Friday morning at the park and we enjoyed every minute of our visit. We
were blessed to stay at the Belmond Hotel which is inside the park
boundaries, so we were not bound by the opening and closing times of the
Park. In fact, when we walk out the front of the hotel you can see
some of the falls from the entrance. We could actually see a little bit
of the falls from our room, and when we opened the window you could
hear the roar of the falls.
When we arrived Thursday, we did a self tour of the entire Brasil
side of the falls and stayed until dark. We only saw 3 or 4 other
people at that hour. The sunset over the falls was beautiful but
difficult to capture in fotos. We also went for a moonlight walk to the
falls, but it clouded up so we didn’t stay too long. After the walk,
we ate dinner at one of the restaurants in the hotel where they had a
huge buffet and grilled meats of every kind. We really, really enjoyed
the meal.
During the early morning Friday is rained like crazy with much
lightening and thunder. We had arranged for an early morning walking
tour of the falls and we really enjoyed it. There were only a few
people in the park, and none of the concessions were open yet. We put
on our rain ponchos when we walked out on the walkways near the base of
the falls because with the wind and mist from the falls you get very,
very wet. It was a good walk and we learned a bit about the history of
the falls.
We then enjoyed a huge buffet breakfast and left the park around 1:30 pm. We had a long and rainy drive home, arriving about 10:30 pm.
We are so grateful that the Mission President approved our trip,
that we splurged a little with the hotel, and we have hundreds of fotos
to edit and save.
A once in a lifetime trip!
Love you all.
Mom and Dad
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