These photos were taken in June 2007.

Iguazu Falls ( in Portuguese it's Cataratas do Iguaçu; and in Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River, located on the border of the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentine province of  Misiones. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu.

The name Iguaçu comes from the indigenous language Guarani or Tupi ”y” (water) and guasú (big). Legend has it that a god planned to marry a beautiful aborigine named Naipí, who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a canoe. In rage, the god sliced the river creating the waterfalls, condemning the lovers to an eternal fall. The first European to find the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541, after whom one of the falls in the Argentine side is named.

The waterfall system consists of 275 falls along 2.7 kilometres (1.67 miles) of the Iguazu River

On the Brazilian side there is a long walkway  along the canyon with an extension to the lower base of the “Garganta del Diablo" .

Upon seeing Iguazu, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly exclaimed "Poor Niagara!" Vastly larger than North America's Niagara Falls, Iguazu is rivalled only by Southern Africa's Victoria Falls.

This is the Devil's Throat (Garganta do Diabo in Portuguese and Garganta del Diablo in Spanish , a U-shaped 150-metre-wide and 700-metre-long (490 by 2300 feet) cliff -  the most impressive of all, and marks the border between Argentina and Brazil.

I was so overwhelmed by the beauty of the Falls. It literally took my breath away. I took the small motor boat (photos below) and went into the Falls – got completely soaked but it was so worth it!!!