Happy Tycoon
Chapter 896: Flew two hours first
After leaving the Basque trolley sculpture, the convoy took a few minutes to arrive at the "Three Kingdoms at a glance" viewing platform at the western end of Iguazu Avenue.
Most countries in South America like to use a certain river to make their borders, and the Paraná and Iguazu rivers are two of the more famous border rivers.
The Iguazu River flowing from east to west eventually merges into the Parana River, which runs north-south, and forms a huge horizontal "t" shape here. The Parana River that runs north-south is the horizontal line of the T, and the Iguazu River that runs east-west is the vertical line.
If two boundary rivers meet here, what scene will be formed? Very simple, that is, the borders of the three countries meet here!
Paraguay to the east of the Parana River, Brazil to the 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 Puerto Iguazu built a huge viewing platform at the confluence 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 four countries meet, such as Zambia, Namibia, Botswana in Africa, and the small city of Kazongula where the four countries meet in Zimbabwe.
However, the ‘Three Kingdoms at a glance’ observation deck in Puerto Iguazu is quite famous.
On this viewing platform, there is a monument to the flags of the three countries, with the flag of Argentina in the middle, the flag of Paraguay on the left, and the flag of Brazil on the right.
In fact, on the other side of the Iguazu River, there is a similar ‘Three Kingdoms at a glance’ observation deck, but it’s just a view of the three countries from the Brazilian side.
After everyone stayed here for about half an hour, they found a restaurant in Puerto Iguazu to prepare lunch, and then they were ready to leave for the Iguazu Falls after having lunch.
From Puerto Iguazu to the Iguazu Falls, you need to walk nearly 20 kilometers. Counting the time out of the city, the convoy arrived at the Iguazu National Park Visitor Center about an hour later.
There are two huge parking lots with dozens of buses parked on one side and a lot of private cars on the other side. Yang Jing and their team will naturally stop here.
Private cars and tourist buses can only reach here. If you want to go further into the park, you have to take a special train in AD.
Riding on the small train, I soon came to the Iguazu Falls.
This big waterfall covers a wide range, so it is not so easy to get a full view.
At this time, it has entered the wet season, so the flow of the waterfall is very large. In the dry season, the "forked" waterfalls are almost all connected together at this time, forming the most spectacular Iguazu Falls.
The roaring Iguazu River made a big horseshoe-shaped bend here, and then the water plunged into the river course more than 70 meters deep, forming a series of waterfalls. During the wet season, the Iguazu Falls will be connected to form a huge waterfall with a width of four kilometers.
Yang Jing and the others came to admire the great waterfall on the side of Argentina. Here you can admire the devil’s throat up close. A trestle bridge several hundred meters long extends directly below the devil’s throat. Tourists stand on the bridge and raise their heads. Can thoroughly feel the shock of the waterfall.
The Devil’s Throat is the most majestic section of the Iguazu Falls. Unlike the waterfall on the Brazilian side, the Devil’s Throat is divided into two levels. The Devil’s Throat on the Argentine side is formed by the river directly falling into a river channel more than 80 meters deep. The most spectacular Devil’s Throat in the Iguazu Falls group.
The local Indians believed that the devil lived 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 of the Itaipu Hydropower Station I saw yesterday. During the flood season, the flow of this waterfall exceeded 12,000 cubic meters per second, which is far from the flood that flooded from the floodgate of the Itaipu Hydropower Station.
A huge curtain of water fell from a cliff more than 80 meters high, making a thunderous roar, and the splashing water mist can rise to hundreds of meters in the sky, forming a thick mist above the waterfall. .
Yang Jing and his party were all shocked by this spectacular scenery. Don't want it. You can't understand how strong this shock is without experiencing it personally.
Yang Jing boasts that he is well-informed, but today he still feels his insignificance in the face of this miracle of nature.
In Brazil, opposite the Devil’s Throat, a vertical elevator was built against the cliff. This elevator is the Devil’s Throat Lift. On the viewing platform on the top of the elevator, you can clearly see the devil's throat on the Brazilian side. It's just that the effect is far worse than seeing the devil's throat up close on the trestle on the side of Argentina.
After staying here for about half an hour in the devil's throat, all the clothes on everyone's body were wetted by the water mist, and Yang Jing and the others reluctantly left here.
After watching the spectacular Devil’s Throat, you also need to take a look at the second-tier waterfall.
The most spectacular section of the Iguazu Falls is the Devil’s Throat, but the second-tier waterfall on the Brazilian side is also very beautiful.
The river here is divided into two levels, like steps, the billowing Iguazu River drops more than 30 meters from the first level of the river into the second level, and then flows forward for more than 100 meters, and finally falls. Entering the last level of the river, a spectacular two-level waterfall is formed here.
At this time, in the bottom waterfall, there are several speedboats carrying dozens of people, and they are playing "Waterfall"!
The so-called rushing waterfall refers to the tourists sitting on the assault boat, and then the driver driving close to the waterfall during the assault. From a distance, this action seems to be hitting a waterfall, so it is called a waterfall.
But in fact, the assault boat is absolutely impossible to really hit the waterfall. With the flow of the Iguazu Falls, let alone a small assault boat, even if it comes to a destroyer, it will be directly washed away by the waterfall in minutes.
So this kind of activity is actually to let tourists get close to the waterfall.
There are similar activities in Niagara Falls in North America ~lightnovelpub.net~, which are very popular with tourists.
"Would you like to rush to it too?" Yang Jing asked in her ear, holding the wet Grid.
"Um...no, it looks so scary. If the assault boat really rushes into the waterfall, it will be overturned soon."
Comrade Xiao Wang on the side said: "Sister-in-law, you can take a helicopter to admire the waterfall without going to the waterfall. Brazil has tourist helicopters, and Argentina also has helicopters."
"Take a helicopter?" Grid seemed tempted.
Xiao Wang said: "It's really another experience to take this helicopter to enjoy the scenery at high altitude, but the price is a bit expensive. A six-seater helicopter costs one hundred and eighty dollars for ten minutes, and five hundred dollars for half an hour!"
The price is okay! Anyway, Yang Jing didn't think it was too expensive. So after discussing, Yang Jing packed a helicopter with great momentum and flew for two hours...