Water water water... with Ben

So the breakfast in Argentina focuses on bread and other breadlike things like biscuits and toast. Tropical fruit is a thing of the past. The most you can expect here is a soft apple or a green orange haha. They like to put dolce de leche on their bread, which is basically condensed milk, so if you start the day with this and a big coffee you are bouncing off the walls. There are loads of fat people here in South America waddling around and heaving themselves up the stairs of the buses. Bubbly, sorry.

At the bus station, a camp Isreali guy wearing a colourful head band and a big straw hat with a hole in it, came upto us and introduced himself as Ben. We were asked to guess his nationality, which is always awkward to have to do. We guessed correctly - at which he was surprised, which made it little more awkward...are you supposed to guess right or wrong?! He loved chatting to us and stuck to us for the whole day, until it was time for his special boat ride that he had organised to go on with a big group of  Isrealis. He asked us to correct his English where it was wrong so he got a lovely long English lesson from us while we walked around the park. The train that takes you to the Devils Throat part of the falls had a huge queue so we walked at the side of the tracks instead and got there faster, accompanied by butterflies of all different sizes and colours flying around us! Also on the way we saw a crocodile or aligator cruising in the river haha

The Devil´s Throat was just mental. Just so much water. Like skyscrapers of water falling again and again and again non stop. The spray drenched everything and everyone and all cameras, you had to take photos super fast with your wet thumbs and it was so loud. We had a lovely photo with Ben (haha) and then had to speed walk back along the train tracks to get our boat ride.

Ben kept popping up all over the park and claimed that he was friends with everyone which turned out to be true as we bumped into some English people who he had met in Beunos Aires and then he popped up again, when we were waiting for our boat, with an English couple in tow who were on their honeymoon! pretty jokes that they were trying to see this amazingly beautiful waterfall in true romantic style and they had Ben the camp Isreali with them introducing them to all his other English friends, like us. I was trying not to laugh at his enthusiasm towards connecting us with them, it was sweet.

The speedboat drove at full speed directly under the waterfall and it was SO cool. Everyone got drenched and had to wave for the cheesy video that was being filmed by the main guy in a fishermans poncho who was at the front of the boat getting the full facial. We had to strip off and ring all our clothes out afterwards because they were wetter than an otter`s pocket.

We went out for dinner again, this time at a Japanese restaraunt, then had an amazing air-conditioned sleep ready for our 25 hour jouney to Salta....